Distracted Cell Phone User on Freeway
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When you’re driving between 2 trucks on the freeway, each consisting of 40 tons of glass, metal, and plastic, it’s probably not a good idea to be texting away on your phone. Here’s a submission I got the other day:
“I’m on the road for 2 weeks running around the country on a driving vacation, and I came back on the 11th to this moron in the VW Bug on the 210 w/b near Citrus. I was going 45 on the freeway, and if you look closely you can see the cell phone glow right next to the seat, him dialing or whatever, slowing traffic down and drifting into other lanes. Never mind that he has 79,000 pound truck behind him that is now unable to get safely around his stupid ass; whenever we tried, he hit the brakes forcing our attention back on him, and we couldn’t get a big enough gap in traffic to safely drive around this dork. Disclaimer: No Bugs were harmed during the process of taking this picture.”
It’s true that the hands-free cell phone law doesn’t make dialing illegal. But let’s be smart about this, people–newsflash: big rigs don’t exactly stop on a dime. In fact, the general rule of thumb is that it takes a full 30 seconds to safely pass a tractor-trailer. Though this guy was obviously not paying attention to what was going on around him, the same cannot be said for the aggressive pricks who speed on the freeway on-ramp to get in front of a big rig before slamming on their brakes to avoid rear-ending the car in front of them. Honestly, do these people have a death wish, or do they simply don’t understand basic physics?
Filed under: cell phone, clueless, observation