Still Bud wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 13:37:43 -0700 (PDT), "
> > wrote:
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>> On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 3:26:20 PM UTC-5, A Moose in Love wrote:
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>>> A young lad, a few years ago, stopped in the middle of the stairway to text. I told him to get the f$%k out of my way. He then said that all I had to say was excuse me. Yeah right. I'm going to axe him to excuse me.
>>> This one goof at a Toronto car wash, was in front of me to pay for his gas. He was on the phone and couldn't understand what the cashier was trying to say. It took a while before things got resolved. Good grief. But that's not the whole story. I was behind him when we went into the auto wash building. I saw that he was still on the phone. The shithead(pardon my lingo, but what else do you call someone like that)then proceeded to somehow get off of the track and ended up dead in the water. And my car was moving closer and closer; I leaned on the horn, and eventually they stopped the line before I hit him. They got him on the track, and when I exited he was gone; couldn't give him a piece of my mind.
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>> It's jerks such as he that causes wrecks but then will deny they were on their
>> phone.
>>
>> My city passed an ordinance on July 1 that makes it illegal to be on your
>> cell phone while driving unless it's a hands-free device. The fine is
>> $100 but I don't think it's being enforced and I would have liked to see
>> the fine at $500. Just before that law went into effect I was reading
>> online another city had passed the same law. They had officers dressed as
>> part of a road crew at a busy intersection at whatever city it was. In one
>> hour they had ticketed 150 drivers for being on their cell phones.
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> Been a law here in Cal. for a few years, and it IS enforced.
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> Basic fine is $20 first time, then $50, but there all sorts of fees
> that make it more like $60 to over $150.
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> Also covers texting.
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In californy, a bag of peanuts cost about that much. Even $150 is a
joke.