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So your argument is "think of the children" followed by "let's ticket the person even if they handed off their phone to a passenger to text, or texted at the st
by merpnderp 10y ago
So your argument is "think of the children" followed by "let's ticket the person even if they handed off their phone to a passenger to text, or texted at the stop light (legal in my state)?"
And you'd be willing to normalize law enforcement snooping in our most private affairs for trivial traffic offenses?
- vvanders 10y agoWhere didn't I mention children? :) I've been run off the road, almost hit head-on and all sorts of other stupid shit that would have massive implications to my life and the life of my family from people texting + driving. Hell, last month I got rear-ended by a state employee who was looking at her phone while stopped behind me and then struck my car during yield-merge.
- merpnderp 10y agoEveryone has had incidents like thsi. I had a semi cross three lanes of traffic at once and almost kill my son and I on the interstate. He was on his phone. Held it up and waved apologetically as I passed him. Still not a valid reason to let law enforcement have trivial access to people's most personal information.