The latest nonsense from Vegas

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:31:23 -0400, "frkrygow"

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Yeah. Utter nonsense like:

"Drivers need to be aware they are out on the streets
operating these 2-ton vehicles and in this day and age with
so many distractions that we face in our lives, the most
important thing to focus on in your driving is your
driving," Cordeiro said.

Vazquez tells drivers: "Pay attention. Stay off the cell
phone. Pull over to the side. Quit eating when you drive.
Quit putting your makeup on. There's so many things
people do."

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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:31:23 -0400, "frkrygow"

frkrygow'@omitcc.ysu.edu said:

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Yeah. Utter nonsense like:

"Drivers need to be aware they are out on the streets
operating these 2-ton vehicles and in this day and age
with so many distractions that we face in our lives, the
most important thing to focus on in your driving is your
driving," Cordeiro said.

Vazquez tells drivers: "Pay attention. Stay off the cell
phone. Pull over to the side. Quit eating when you drive.
Quit putting your makeup on. There's so many things
people do."

There *was* a lot of [censored] in there.

"Vazquez now tells her kids to ride their bikes on the
sidewalk, whether it's legal or not. "Because it's too
dangerous in the streets. I've seen how people drive here in
Las Vegas," she said."

The concept that "Every person riding a bicycle upon a
roadway has all of the rights and is subject to all the
duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle," is
fundamentally wrong.

Pete

Pete said:

There *was* a lot of [censored] in there.

I was just jerking Frank K's chain.

In rec.bicycles.misc frkrygow 'frkrygow'@omitcc.ysu.edu said:

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2004/news/23561841.html

Most of that drivel we've read a gazillion times, but I do
find it ironic that the behavior advocated by this mother
(riding your bike as if a pedestrian) is *exactly* what got
her son hurt in the first place.

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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:31:23 -0400, "frkrygow"

frkrygow'@omitcc.ysu.edu said:

reviewjournal.comApr 04 SunOpen ↗
2004/news/23561841.h

tml

Quoted message said:

Yeah. Utter nonsense like:

"Drivers need to be aware they are out on the streets
operating these 2-ton vehicles and in this day and age
with so many distractions that we face in our lives, the
most important thing to focus on in your driving is your
driving," Cordeiro said.

Vazquez tells drivers: "Pay attention. Stay off the cell
phone. Pull over to the side. Quit eating when you
drive. Quit putting your makeup on. There's so many
things people do."

There *was* a lot of [censored] in there.

"Vazquez now tells her kids to ride their bikes on the
sidewalk, whether it's legal or not. "Because it's too
dangerous in the streets. I've seen how people drive here
in Las Vegas," she said."

Well...while I disagree with her decision (I think her kids
run just as much of a risk of getting killed by having
someone's minivan back onto them while exiting a driveway as
they do on the streets), I can't blame her for being upset
by the habits of the modern multitasking driver who has
convinced himself that he can talk, eat, fax, comb hair,
read the newspaper and discipline the kids while driving.

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The concept that "Every person riding a bicycle upon a
roadway has all of the rights and is subject to all the
duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle," is
fundamentally wrong.

Why?
--
Trudi

"He's lean, he's elegant, he's quick, he's ethereal He makes
grown men cry in their cereal." --Rex Thomas's couplet about
Johnny Weir

(Trudi Marrapodi) said:

Well...while I disagree with her decision (I think her
kids run just as much of a risk of getting killed by
having someone's minivan back onto them while exiting a
driveway as they do on the streets), I can't blame her for
being upset by the habits of the modern multitasking
driver who has convinced himself that he can talk, eat,
fax, comb hair, read the newspaper and discipline the kids
while driving.

I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy
road that says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while
driving you to school, she doesn't love you very much".

Think that would stir the pot a bit?

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So Mark Hickey <[email hidden]> says:

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I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy
road that says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while
driving you to school, she doesn't love you very much".

Think that would stir the pot a bit?

Yep, the good kind of stirring though.

jeffb

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:07:32 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

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I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy
road that says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while
driving you to school, she doesn't love you very much".

Think that would stir the pot a bit?

I would make a donation to that cause...

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I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy
road that says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while
driving you to school, she doesn't love you very much".

How about, "if your mommy drives you to school, she doesn't
love you very much."

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

(Trudi Marrapodi) said:

Well...while I disagree with her decision (I think her
kids run just as much of a risk of getting killed by
having someone's minivan back onto them while exiting a
driveway as they do on the streets), I can't blame her
for being upset by the habits of the modern multitasking
driver who has convinced himself that he can talk, eat,
fax, comb hair, read the newspaper and discipline the
kids while driving.

I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy
road that says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while
driving you to school, she doesn't love you very much".

Think that would stir the pot a bit?

I'll contribute to that. Anybody else want to chip in?

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address before replying!

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In rec.bicycles.misc David Kerber ns_dkerber@ns_ids.net said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a
busy road that says "If your mommy talks on the
cellphone while driving you to school, she doesn't love
you very much".

Think that would stir the pot a bit?

I'll contribute to that. Anybody else want to chip in?

This is one of the more beautiful ideas I've heard for a
while. I think I could stump up some cash for this one...

--
Dane "works for cellphone provider" Jackson "The bigger they
are, the harder they hit."

Know what I would love to see?

A public-service ad that would show this:

The scene is a workshop in a garage. A man is shown
carefully guiding a flat piece of wood through a buzz saw
(he's wearing goggles to protect himself from flying chips,
of course).

Suddenly, the sound of a ringing cell phone is heard. Rather
than stop guiding the wood through the saw, the man simply
reaches out with one hand and picks up the phone. He hits a
button. "Hello? Yeah, I'm cutting some boards for those
shelves Helen keeps bugging me to make. How about you?..."
He continues to guide the wood (shakily) with one hand,
tucking the phone under his chin momentarily to sip from a
can of soda nearby, then picks it back out from his chin,
then looks away to various other places as he continues to
talk and saw: "Yeah, did you see that in the paper? Here's
what it says..." He tucks the phone under his chin again,
picks up the paper and reads from it into the phone while
continuing to guide the wood with the other hand. "Yeah, can
you beat that?..." In the background we hear two kids
starting to fight. "Jessica, Phillip, stop that right now or
I'm going to tell your mother--What are you doing? Come over
here..." The kids come running around the workbench, near
the saw, squealing about something, while he attempts to
referee the argument. "Excuse me a sec, Al...now, what's
going on, you two?"

These lines are superimposed on the scene:

If you wouldn't try to do all this while you were using a
dangerous piece of equipment... ...why do you do it when
you're driving?
--
Trudi

"Boy, there sure is a lot of tension around here tonight.
It's like a Joan Crawford movie."

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:08:16 -0400, [email hidden]

(Trudi Marrapodi) said:

Know what I would love to see?

A public-service ad that would show this:

<SNIP>

Quoted message said:

These lines are superimposed on the scene:

If you wouldn't try to do all this while you were using a
dangerous piece of equipment... ...why do you do it when
you're driving?

...because Americans have a God-given right to drive
arbitrarily large fuel-guzzling cars at high speeds on all
roads, no matter what. And to defend that from barbarians
and tyrants that insist they do something inordinately
demanding, like pay attention, they will exercise their
other God-given right to slaughter you with privately-held
heavy weaponry.

...and if you attempt to exercise your merely constitutional
right to disagree, they will invoke their God-given duty to
oppress, harass, or exclude you.

-Luigi

"Democracy is the worst form of government--excluding all
others"
- Churchill

"Trudi Marrapodi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Know what I would love to see?

A public-service ad that would show this:

The scene is a workshop in a garage. A man is shown
carefully guiding a flat piece of wood through a buzz saw
(he's wearing goggles to protect himself from flying
chips, of course).

Quoted message said:

These lines are superimposed on the scene:

If you wouldn't try to do all this while you were using a
dangerous piece of equipment... ...why do you do it when
you're driving?
--
Trudi

There was a skit like that on tv, the ad where the woman
gets a cell phone from her unsmiling father, and then he
calls her. As she says, "I love you dad", she loses control
of the car and goes over the cliff. It was a takeoff of that
ad for some cell phone company, I can't recall which.

The other day I was crosssing at an intersection (on foot)
and a woman stopped- just barely. SHe was driving a Lexus,
and while doing so was blabbing on her phone and smoking a
cigarette!