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Do you text while driving?
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:55 pm
by Narrock
Calif woman gets 6 years for fatal texting crash
AP
Sat Apr 4, 1:02 pm ET
REDDING, Calif. – A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles.
Deborah Matis-Engle was sentenced Friday by a judge in Redding, Calif.
Investigators said Deborah Matis-Engle was speeding and text messaging when she slammed into the vehicles stopped at a construction zone in August 2007.
Shasta County prosecutor Stephanie Bridgett said the 49-year-old woman had paid several bills by cell phone in the moments before the crash.
She was in the middle of one of those transactions when she struck a vehicle that burst into flames, killing 46-year-old Petra Winn.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Stotter said he will appeal.
I see people text-messaging at least 10 times a day. Scary shit.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:04 pm
by Nusk
the woman should of died in the crash and removed herself from the gene pool. this is manslaughter and should be treated as such. 6 years is lenient compared to causing the death of another person
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:00 am
by Zanchief
Good. They should go after people who talk on phones too.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:52 am
by Arlos
California now actually does have a law requiring using some kind of hands-off mechanism for cell phone calls in car. Bluetooth headset, etc.
They did also recently make texting while driving illegal as well.
-Arlos
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:58 pm
by Gaazy
They need to make it kill on site for those godamn women that talk, put on make up, and drive all at the same time. Have an open season and bounty on them. and you can always tell when those idiots are doin it too, always lookin up and down, up and down
I always pull over when I get a call or have to make one or whatever, and then a couple weeks ago, the one time in a million years I try to answer a call and drive because it was an important one, I end up almost rear ending someone.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:19 pm
by Gidan
I have never been able to understand putting on eye makeup while driving. I wouldn't go poking around my eye with anything while I was driving.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:06 pm
by Tuggan
i text and drive. while drunk.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:38 pm
by Kramer
i text and drive. while drunk.
and masturbating
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:59 pm
by Tuggan
Kramer wrote:i text and drive. while drunk.
and masturbating
in a blizzard.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:43 pm
by Maeya
Gidan wrote:I have never been able to understand putting on eye makeup while driving. I wouldn't go poking around my eye with anything while I was driving.
Nuh uh. Especially since I heard the stories about women going to the emergency room with a mascara wand stuck in their eyeballs.
I talk on the phone while in the car. I have also texted while in a car, but I only do that at red lights. If the light turns green, I just don't send the text, or finish it next light. There's plenty of those in Atlanta.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:13 pm
by Blackdiam
We had a guy here a few years ago playing a flute while driving was seen twice doing these
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:14 pm
by brinstar
tacos are pretty difficult to eat while driving, who's with me
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:17 pm
by Gidan
So is pizza and soup I hear, they were both on the top 10 most dangerous foods to eat while driving.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:25 pm
by Darcler
Soup? Pfft, put that shit in a cup and drink it up. Pizza is hard. Tacos are hard to eat while sitting at a table, I couldnt do that while driving. I'm a pretty bad driver to begin with, so I try not to do anything that would otherwise occupy my attention from the road.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:26 am
by Tuggan
pizza is easy. just fold and stuff into mouth.
breaking up some weed, packing, lighting, filling, and emptying a bong by yourself while driving. THAT'S a challenge.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:47 am
by leah
Tuggan wrote:breaking up some weed, packing, lighting, filling, and emptying a bong by yourself while driving. THAT'S a challenge.
not for the guy in the SUV next to me at a stoplight the other day
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:51 am
by Ginzburgh
I have driven next to people in traffic who have a fully opened newspaper in front of them.
breaking up some weed, packing, lighting, filling, and emptying a bong by yourself while driving. THAT'S a challenge.
And why would you drive and smoke a bong? That's what dugout's were invented for.
http://www.420auction.com/auctions/dugout.jpg
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:17 pm
by Evermore
Ginzburgh wrote:I have driven next to people in traffic who have a fully opened newspaper in front of them.
breaking up some weed, packing, lighting, filling, and emptying a bong by yourself while driving. THAT'S a challenge.
And why would you drive and smoke a bong? That's what dugout's were invented for.
http://www.420auction.com/auctions/dugout.jpg
or just twist a doob
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:07 pm
by Gaazy
Ginzburgh wrote:I have driven next to people in traffic who have a fully opened newspaper in front of them.
Haha speaking of that, theres a guy that works up the road from me, that goes in about the same time as me, and I see him most morning around 6, and Ive seen him dozens of times with open newspapers, just driiiivin along. Like wtf, how do you read and drive at the same time. I think that one takes the cake
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:30 pm
by Spazz
Yea man tuggan isnt kiddning. It just depends on who ya are how well you can multi task while driving. I used to smoke blunts and get road head while looking for addresses from time to time. Thats gotta be 10 times harder than talking on a phone or putting on make up.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:10 pm
by Gidan
When I worked mornings, I remember people reading books on the way into work every morning. Never understood how they did it, they do make books on tape/cd.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:30 pm
by brinstar
never heard it called a dugout, but that makes sense
'round these parts we call 'em "oneies" or "oneys" or "1ies" or however the fuck you want to spell it
it's pronounced one-ee, as in good for one hit
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:22 pm
by Jay
I text between lights and during traffic jams. When I talk on the phone I use a bluetooth speaker thing.
Also, every woman who goes to the hospital with a mascara wand in her eyeball, sorry, they deserved it.
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:46 pm
by Gaazy
haha never heard anyone call em oneies brin. they always call em one hitters here. Ive never got into somking pot so maybe im out of the loop
Re: Do you text while driving?
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:19 pm
by Spazz
Up here in these parts we call it a onehitter, or sneak a toke
