Troopers using trucks to catch people texting

[Dolomite_supafly]

My wife KNOWS I won't answer texts during my commute home, but that never stopped her from texting me to ask me to stop on the way home for something. I'd just walk in the door and say she should have called me instead (bluetooth/hands-free).

 

We were driving somewhere the other day and she heard my truck read me a text message and got royally P'd off. Now I don't have an excuse to make her go buy her own damn tampons or whatever.

 

I have done it as well and I just acted like I was buying a pack of crackers, with CONFIDENCE.

 

But I will tell you how to fix that. Next time she asks you to buy some then buy the super, duper, extra absorbency. She will NEVER ask you again. Might be a little rough for a few days until she doesn't need them anymore but in the end it will be worth it.

[macville]

For real?

If so, why? Their texting while driving is as dangerous as anyone else's.

 

Ding ding ding. We have a winner! Yes, their texting is JUST as dangerous as anyone else's texting. Unless I am unaware of training they receive to somehow drive safely while texting, it needs to stop. They are literally above the law. It needs to change during this next session. 

[Dolomite_supafly]

Right now I am following a Grainger county emergency response sedan. Not a patrol but still in an official capacity.

He is texting as I am typing this and driving all over the road. He left his lane of traffic several times and has all the markers of a DUI driver. He is trying to keep one tire on the yellow line but that only gets him closer to actually leaving the roadway.

We have been waiting for him to wreck himself or someone else. Edited September 9, 2015 by Dolomite_supafly

[79troublehead]

I spend a lot of time on my bike, and to have a squirrel come around a curve on your side of the road with his/her eyes on their crotch is the rush you don't want. Since they're trying to kill me, would deadly force be justified?

[79troublehead]

Right now I am following a Grainger county emergency response sedan. Not a patrol but still in an official capacity.

He is texting as I am typing this and driving all over the road. He left his lane of traffic several times and has all the markers of a DUI driver. He is trying to keep one tire on the yellow line but that only gets him closer to actually leaving the roadway.

We have been waiting for him to wreck himself or someone else.

Take him out.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Take him out.

I don't want to take anyone out. I just want the same rules and laws to be applied equally to all of our citizens. But as we are seeing more and more the laws are not being enforced fairly across the board.

And it is not just some officer texting as he drives but what that represents. It just goes to show that those in power know they can do what we can't and break the law openly knowing they will not be held accountable. And that is the single biggest problem with our country, people are not being held accountable. From the child not being held accountable by his parents to our Commander in Chief openly committing felonies, repeatedly, and not being held accountable because those who would hold him accountable are just as bad.

[Caster]

People need to be MADE to understand that this is in no way shape form or fashion, an infringement upon their rights....its an infringement upon everyone else's.  Everyone should have the right to be reasonably safe on a public road, in the sense of focused sobriety.  Driving should be done dead sober, reasonably rested, fully alert with undivided attention.  Anything other makes you a piece of  :poop:  for endangering lives.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Caster

[Dirtshooter]

If a cop would ride to and from work with me for 1 day he/she would have writers cramp from writing tickets. I need to pitch that to the THP and see if I can get a full time state job just riding troopers around in my unmarked yukon!!!!

[Caster]

If a cop would ride to and from work with me for 1 day he/she would have writers cramp from writing tickets. I need to pitch that to the THP and see if I can get a full time state job just riding troopers around in my unmarked yukon!!!!

I know what you're saying. If I could get a kickback for every DUI I could put the cops on, I'd have a good chunk of change. So many drunkards and pill heads pass through here, it ain't even funny.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I say have a reward system for it.

If your call leads to a conviction get paid for it. Start handing out 10% of the fines to make a call and the officers would be overwhelmed. I beg it could fund a new unit just to investigate the calls. Give the unit unmarked normal cars and once confirmed pull the offender over.

[mikegideon]

I have done it as well and I just acted like I was buying a pack of crackers, with CONFIDENCE.

 

But I will tell you how to fix that. Next time she asks you to buy some then buy the super, duper, extra absorbency. She will NEVER ask you again. Might be a little rough for a few days until she doesn't need them anymore but in the end it will be worth it.

 

Never has bothered me. I have bought tons of them. 

[nightrunner]

Never has bothered me. I have bought tons of them.

Same here. Was sent in for some one time and it was a young girl cashier (16-17 yrs old), and when I was checking out, she asked if I was sure I got the right ones kind of sarcastically. Just told her if I didn't I'm sure I'll be right back.