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Originally Posted by POS
#1 distraction while driving? Eating, not cell phones. What's the difference between driving while texting and driving while eating? Or driving while flossing? Or driving while applying makeup? Or driving while adjusting the radio? Or driving while looking at a hot chick walking her dog on the sidewalk?
It was an ACCIDENT, in this case someone died over it, but six years for accident seems way out of line. You won't believe me when I say it, but I'll say it anyways - if it was my wife who was killed by that woman, I would still think six years is unfair. It was an accident - no different than an accident caused by the other scenarios listed above.
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when the automobile operator has walked around the car prior to starting the car, checking tire pressure and making sure no children or pets or in the path of the car, turned the cell phone OFF, thrown the phone into the back seat of the car, turned the radio/CD player OFF, put the cigarettes away and cracked the windows so they can hear emergency sirens, i.e. firetrucks, police, etc. both hands at the 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM positions on the steering wheel, eyes focused on the road while checking all eight "defense zones" (front, left front, left side, left rear, rear, right rear, right side, right front) with a steady eye on the road in front.
Question: might an accident still happen? of course, a real honest accident can happen to anyone at anytime.
Has the statistical probability of being the CAUSE of an accident been reduced? a definite YES.
this style of driving has saved my butt in plenty of instances from texting, cell phone yakking, DVD watchin' friggin IDIOTS who should not be behind the wheel of a 2 ton KILLING MACHINE. whether using a knife, gun or car, if their irresponsible actions cause DEATH to someone they need to face justice.
question is, what exactly is "justice"?? if they kill someone while texting, they have potentially wrecked the lives of the family. but do these self-serving texters give a rats behind that they impacted the lives of an entire FAMILY? I think we all know the answer to that one. as long as they can eat a big mac with one hand, text with the other and smoke a cigarette, they simply care about one thing and one thing only. THEMSELVES. their self serving egos have caused death and trauma to innocents who did not deserve to die just so they could pay a light bill.
Six years? a mere slap on the wrist for causing pain, trauma and the taking of a life. at the end of six, they get out and go on with their lives. meanwhile the pain and trauma they caused the family never ends......
Here's a prediction. I predict that this cell phone texting bimbo serves her six and gets out and does it AGAIN. While in jail, she will complain to the other prisioners that she was "railroaded" and her "sentence was too harsh", etc etc. Six years then back on the street. check your rear view mirror..........