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I recall similar arguments raised for seatbelt laws.

Those laws saved thousands of lives and millions of dollars in health care costs.

Cops will get good at spotting this dangerous practice and ticket the offenders. This law, and enforcing the other, is long overdue.

It's sad when something that should be prohibited by individual common sense is not and therefore has to become a law.

I still like my law, where you are allowed to take the phone of anybody who hits you while texting and do with it whatever you want, including beating them with it and scratching their car with it. And their cell phone bill goes up twice as much as the insurance rates go up!

My law doesn't burden the police and just might scare some sense into these idiots who think the world will end if they are not constantly texting.

Eating in your car will be next.

And the seats will have tiny poot detectors that link to the gps satellites in the sky. When a poot (even a sbd) is detected, the car will be instantly disabled but you cannot slide down in shame because this same method will also make the seatbelt unlatchable. Let us then poot while there's time...

I spend a lot of the time in the Chicago area on business. And Chicago drivers have to be some of the most aggressive that I’ve seen. I’ve never seen so many people have such a total disregard for turn signals, stop signs and red lights. A coworker told how her sister was paralyzed by a driver who blew through a stop sign. People are incredibly selfish when it comes to their driving habits. During my years of driving, I’ve seen: drivers eating cereal, drivers reading books, dogs sitting in the laps of drivers, drivers flicking cigarette butts out of their cars, men shaving and women applying makeup. You would think that common sense would prevail and these people would drive safely. But, people today, are not going to inconvenience themselves. They are going to do what they want to do. I saw a story on the national news about a woman who was reported to the local police department. It seems that a fellow driver saw the woman breastfeeding her child, talking on the phone and driving. The concerned driver called 911. The police went to the woman’s home and told her about the safety concerns and laws that she had broken. Since the police did not actually witness the woman breaking the law, they could not write her a ticket. The woman told the police that she was not concerned about safety or breaking laws. She said that her main concern was making sure her child was fed.

Civility, common decency and more importantly, common sense, are in short supply these days. I experience it everyday when someone is blabbing on the cell phone. You are a part of the conversation whether you like it or not. And unless you are a doctor or are waiting on urgent news, most cell phone conversations can wait until you are parked, are at home or are assured of some privacy. It’s amazing that people were able to wait and place calls before the advent of cell phones.

Wow Conundrum, I can't believe you'd call out mammy's mammaries on this one.

I guess you're just keepin it real...

For once I am in COMPLETE agreement with you conundrum. Excellent post.