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This is what I see whenever I go out of the house. (Usually 5-8 per trip) (Original Post) BlueJazz Sep 2014 OP
Ugh... PasadenaTrudy Sep 2014 #1
Way to play with your phone / camera while you drive. Glassunion Sep 2014 #2
Could be a dashcam. JimDandy Sep 2014 #6
Was at a Stoplight. BlueJazz Sep 2014 #7
So was the dude who almost ran over my ass while playing with his phone. Glassunion Sep 2014 #9
Mine is talk command. BlueJazz Sep 2014 #10
Cool Glassunion Sep 2014 #11
I've had just about enough of your silly, immature, nasty, stupid, illogical posts ...Regarding me.. BlueJazz Sep 2014 #12
I'm not joking when I said that someone almost ran me over at a stoplight. Glassunion Sep 2014 #13
What somebody else has done to you in the past has nothing to do with the present. BlueJazz Sep 2014 #16
Great. Then all I can hope for is for Florida to expand their laws to also prohibit Glassunion Sep 2014 #27
It would be hard to pass a law that prohibits the use of a phone when stopped. BlueJazz Sep 2014 #30
I don't have to agree with you Glassunion Sep 2014 #32
0-7 to leave. Good jury. Agschmid Sep 2014 #33
That was alerted? Glassunion Sep 2014 #37
No idea. Agschmid Sep 2014 #38
LOL Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #22
Northern Florida per chance???...n/t monmouth3 Sep 2014 #3
Pinellas county. St Petersburg BlueJazz Sep 2014 #8
Anywhere near The Villages? lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #4
Jacksonville, right. Same here NightWatcher Sep 2014 #5
I'll bet there were some real clever messages on them. TheCowsCameHome Sep 2014 #14
Oh shit. That is very depressing. Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #15
Like a mobile museum of RW claptrap Cirque du So-What Sep 2014 #17
This is what I see when I take the trash out to the garage in the morning. postulater Sep 2014 #18
Clearly right wing asshats. n/t A HERETIC I AM Sep 2014 #19
Possibly Doeminionists. nt pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #23
Oh deer. nt postulater Sep 2014 #25
The weird headgear give them away. nt postulater Sep 2014 #26
I been sitting here trying to think of something clever to say but looking at them makes me ... BlueJazz Sep 2014 #24
What's all the debris on the roof? TheCowsCameHome Sep 2014 #20
From the right side of his truck it looked like he was about to launch something to Saturn. BlueJazz Sep 2014 #31
I haven't seenhim in awhile OriginalGeek Sep 2014 #21
Sis lives in Leon County (Monticello, near Tallahassee). Laffy Kat Sep 2014 #28
Ain't democracy grand ? aikoaiko Sep 2014 #29
That is what I call JEB Sep 2014 #34
PLEASE OTHER HUMANS NOTICE ME! Rex Sep 2014 #35
Yep, you nailed it. Sancho Sep 2014 #36

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
11. Cool
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:12 PM
Sep 2014

Make sure to tell that to the emergency responders when they have to shovel someone off the pavement because you were only telling your phone to take a picture.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025455790

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
12. I've had just about enough of your silly, immature, nasty, stupid, illogical posts ...Regarding me..
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:22 PM
Sep 2014

taking a picture at a stoplight.....I would LOVE to meet you.... and show you what a camera looks like shoved up...

To the Dear Jurors..It's worth it

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
13. I'm not joking when I said that someone almost ran me over at a stoplight.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:30 PM
Sep 2014

He was paying attention to his phone and not the road. We were all at a complete stop, when he suddenly just started driving right at me. He was holding his phone up right in front of himself and staring at the screen. Don't know what he was staring at, but it was not traffic. I ended up bailing out onto the shoulder. Then when he now had a truck directly in front of him, he stopped.

All I am saying is that it's not safe. Period.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
16. What somebody else has done to you in the past has nothing to do with the present.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:41 PM
Sep 2014

I don't talk on the phone...except when I'm stopped.
I don't take pictures with the phone ...except when I'm stopped.
I don't let my girlfriend ...ah...well.. forget that.

Geez...give me credit for having SOME sense and caring about other people. The phone goes down to the seat, I check the surroundings and THEN my foot comes off the brake. That's the way I drive...and my record shows it.

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
27. Great. Then all I can hope for is for Florida to expand their laws to also prohibit
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 07:36 PM
Sep 2014

using the phone at a stop light as well.

It's not what has happened to me in the past that concerns me. I tend to be forward looking, and would not want someone to be unnecessarily hurt because someone cannot leave their phone alone for more than 3 minutes while they are in operation of a 4,000lb automobile. Everyone who admits to using their phone while operating a vehicle, for whatever reason, always seems to have an excuse to justify why they are the exception to the rule, and that their superior driving skills and phone practices are actually in no way ever going to cause harm.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
30. It would be hard to pass a law that prohibits the use of a phone when stopped.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:57 PM
Sep 2014

You would be best to try for "may not use while driving" first.
I'd go along with that.
I respect your thoughts on the subject but disagree with part of them.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
15. Oh shit. That is very depressing.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:35 PM
Sep 2014

I'm lucky I live in a liberal bubble, just for my own mental health.

postulater

(5,075 posts)
18. This is what I see when I take the trash out to the garage in the morning.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:52 PM
Sep 2014

[url=https://flic.kr/p/oYbrCS][img][/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/oYbrCS]IMG_0930[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/7832948@N04/]talisker![/url], on Flickr

Usually it is two bucks, both about the same size. Today one had a girlfriend.
 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
24. I been sitting here trying to think of something clever to say but looking at them makes me ...
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 07:24 PM
Sep 2014

...just feel relaxed. Sigh...

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
31. From the right side of his truck it looked like he was about to launch something to Saturn.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 09:01 PM
Sep 2014

I'm not kidding.
We get some strange ones down here.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
21. I haven't seenhim in awhile
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 07:03 PM
Sep 2014

maybe he drove into a ditch - but there was a guy in truck covered in racist, KKK, anti-Obama stickers. Regardless what you think of BHO right now, he never deserved the shit on this guy's truck. The sticker I remember most was three white-hooded caricatures and the slogan "The ORIGINAL Boys in the hood".


I had to go to Pensacola last week for work and somewhere between Ocala and Gainesville there was a billboard that just said STOP OBAMA and had the name of some local religious entity. It was dated 2012 though so all I could think was

Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)
28. Sis lives in Leon County (Monticello, near Tallahassee).
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 08:07 PM
Sep 2014

Some RWNJ (or there are plenty around there) took their Gwen Graham sign down, torn it in half then thew it in their yard. It's a rural area. My sis and BIL put another sign up and rigged one of their motion-sensor, infrared, wildlife cameras up to catch the perp.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
35. PLEASE OTHER HUMANS NOTICE ME!
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 10:24 PM
Sep 2014

Not saying they have some sort of inferiority complex, just that they DEMAND to be seen dammit!

Sancho

(9,067 posts)
36. Yep, you nailed it.
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 10:25 PM
Sep 2014

I honestly don't know where these people come from, but they are on the roads in Florida.

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