Hoffman Supporter Admits Texting While Driving at 100 MPH

[Ian David]

Doing this all from my blackberry at 100mph with scattered service. Need to be on a call in 25 mins. #ny23 19 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
http://twitter.com/Ali/status/5401509323

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mupm2BmIjtc/SvCgpvglbHI/AAAAAAAAJHA/7rXWeEWyaZk/s400/tweet+vandalism+NY23+update3.jpg

See also:

Effective Immediately, New York Bans Texting While Driving
November 3, 2009 (NewYorkInjuryNews.com - Featured News, New York City)
http://www.newyorkinjurynews.com/2009/11/03/effective-immediately-new-york-bans-texting-while-driving_200911031451.html

Political Carnival is now covering the reckless driving dude.
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/

[customerserviceguy]

1. My prediction:

This ban will be as ineffective as any other sort of barely enforceable automobile ban, such as the ones involving seat belts, child car seats, and drinking.

The only solution is to stop the cell phone companies from offering texting. Period.

You should only be able to write messages with devices that need a lap, table, and two hands to use, that are incompatible with steering wheels.

[Ian David]

2. Or make it so the phone won't text while it's moving over 3 MPH. n/t

[customerserviceguy]

4. Why 3 MPH?

There would be an enormous temptation to text in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and that's the time when drivers need to be the most alert, keeping up, not letting gaps form, and making damn sure you don't hit the car in front of you when you do inch forward.

[Ian David]

5. Average walking speed is 3.5 MPH n/t

[customerserviceguy]

9. Yeah, and I've nearly been walked into

by boobs texting while strolling down supermarket aisles.

Texting is dangerous no matter where it's done, as long as the texter is in motion, or in a place where others are in motion. If you must insist on texting, then sit your ass down in a stable seat that someone alert is in control of, if it's on a moving vehicle, and indulge in an activity that clearly regards the rest of the surrounding world as completely irrelevant.

[depakid]

6. Errr... seatbelt and child seat laws have been a resounding success

[blondeatlast]

13. Ssssshhhh.... Please don't resort to facts;

it frustrates the perpetually pissed (as in, CSG).

[anigbrowl]

3. I'm not sure I should take that tweet at face value...

I mean, when I say I have a million things to do, I actually mean about 7.

[SoCalDem]

7. Ali A Ahkbar?

spoof:rofl:

[Ian David]

8. Probably not his real name, but he seems to be a legit repuke.

A Muslim Repuke isn't so far-fetched.

[blogslut]

10. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking

Maybe a nickname, maybe a sockpuppet twitter acct.

[Ian David]

11. Hah! He made his Twitter timeline private now! n/t

[clear eye]

12. Too much coffee, too little sleep?

Or just an excess of stupid?

Didn't do him much good. Hah!