Silliness in Action: California Poised for Cell Phone Ban

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bryan Price <bytehead () bytehead org>
Date: August 27, 2006 10:40:03 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: lauren () vortex com, smoke_dc () yahoo com
Subject: Re: [IP] Silliness in Action: California Poised for Cell  
Phone Ban

I am reminded of the night sitting in my apartment, having just  
gotten home from a bad day, and hearing an awful bang of an accident  
just outside.  I opened the door to find one of the cars involved in  
the crash next to my deck.  Amazingly, it looked just like my car.   
After a moment, I realized that it was, indeed, my car.

A teenager who had just bought the car that set off the excitement  
told the police officer, the couple that lived next to me and me that  
she was distracted from drive from trying to figure out where the  
windshield wipers were at.  She hit the car behind me, a new Ford  
Escort that hadn't even had it's first payment made, although it was  
my car that actually stopper her.  My car took out her right fender  
all the way to the back of her tire, and shoved my car car about 15  
feet into the yard, which just missed the car in front of it, and  
managed to not take out my deck either.  Now my car was a '73  
Chrysler Newport, a large size car for that time, probably close in  
size to an H3.  Her Buick was not as big as my car.

Now if we really want to take out distractions, I guess we can also  
get the windshield wipers too.

Or, as Lauren says, we actually get the drivers themselves for  
allowing themselves to be distracted.


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