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[Doc]

Thats what happens when autocrats go nuts with drunken power mod while using a cell phone, side-show. Let this be a lesson to us all.

It's possible....

Intercontinental fun-fact: We call them all mobile phones here, never cell phones.

[theinevitable]

Tell you what, next time I'm in a car and the driver answers the phone I'll slap it loose from him and lay a "Pay Attention, Stupid" on him.

please don't hit and yell at people while they are driving a car you are in

[greenkoolayd]

It's possible....

Intercontinental fun-fact: We call them all mobile phones here, never cell phones.

the funnest difference is rice bubbles vs. rice krispies....

[AugustWest]

Tonight, Asherdan is thankful that he is not afraid of the police.

Tomorrow?

[side_show]

If he dies, at least we will know he died happy.

Also, they are called mobile phones and cell phones up here interchangeably. 

[jay-ell]

Now I am less worried about talking and driving and more worried about Ash's alcohol-drenched, over-heated-in-the-hot-tub heart giving out.

To address A-Cap's point, for those of you who don't know, a guy murdered my grandmother and stepgrandfather 12 hours after being released from prison on prior drug and armed robbery convictions. Here's a case where the cops did their job, rounded up a guy, he served his time (3 years), and yet the system still failed us. There's only so much we can do to control the "criminal element." The guy got caught (again) and now faces the death penalty (which I oppose). It's not the police's fault -- for cripe's sake, my uncle is a cop in the precinct where my grandmother lived -- this guy simply couldn't be rehabilitated, at least not in the amount of time given as a maximum sentence under our current laws.

I would prefer that the whole situation hadn't happened. But it seems to me like that kind of random act is a lot less preventable than, for instance, the dozens of accidents a year that occur because the driver is distracted on the phone. A junkie with a violent streak in need of a drug fix is not the kind of person you can dissuade from breaking a law; an otherwise good person who isn't aware of how dangerous driving and talking can be is much more malleable. Solve the problems that make the most impact with the least effort first -- I would think that would be second nature to an economist, no?

Case in point: my dad has always been spotty at best about wearing his seatbelt, even after an accident in which he was mildly injured 12 years ago. But I found out today that he got a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt six months ago, and he's been religious about wearing it ever since. (See? It's hereditary.) He doesn't believe a seatbelt will keep him from dying in an accident, just like many people don't believe that talking on their phones while driving is dangerous, but he DOES believe that if he continues to not buckle up, eventually he'll get caught again. That's the kind of motivation some people (myself included) require.

[Lister]

My father simply refuses to change his habits.  Even after the second time he's hit a stopped vehicle while he was reading his email on his Blackberry.  He gets a new hands-free earpiece every 4-5 months as a gift, and then says they don't work when he loses them/they run out of batteries.

Of course, this is also a man who burns his own oatmeal every damn morning and does not see the pattern nor how to change it.

[pmcd9]

Case in point: my dad has always been spotty at best about wearing his seatbelt, even after an accident in which he was mildly injured 12 years ago. But I found out today that he got a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt six months ago, and he's been religious about wearing it ever since. (See? It's hereditary.) He doesn't believe a seatbelt will keep him from dying in an accident, just like many people don't believe that talking on their phones while driving is dangerous, but he DOES believe that if he continues to not buckle up, eventually he'll get caught again. That's the kind of motivation some people (myself included) require.

We never wore seat belts in my family.  I was raised to believe they were dangerous because my father had a wreck before or shortly after I was born where he believes he would have been killed had he been wearing a seat belt.  The car he was driving hydoplaned off the road in a storm and rolled several times.  He saved himself by diving into the floorboard.  Something he couldn't have done had he been wearing his belt.

To reinforce this attitude almost the exact thing happened to me.  In my case I was driving a two ton truck that caught a bit of gravel on the side of the highway and pulled the truck over.  I saved myself by diving into the floorboard.

In both cases the roof of the vehicle was crushed into the passenger area.  I've no doubt I would have been seriously injured or killed had I been strapped in.  As it were, I walked away unharmed.  My guitar did not fare as well.

I got three no seat belt tickets before I decided I could no longer afford to be a rebel.

[AugustWest]

My guitar did not fare as well.

Aw man, not a Ric.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I survuved the family

Typos are funny.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Typos are funny.

Yeah the verb there is kind of a mystery. He could be saying survived or suffocated, we'll never know.

[theinevitable]

Paul, I have been wondering what happened to that guitar for literally years.

[greenkoolayd]

1984 was a bad year for me, as well.  my brother was born and i was no longer the only child.

[pmcd9]

Paul, I have been wondering what happened to that guitar for literally years.

Was it better for you when it was a mystery or do you prefer knowing?

[theinevitable]

for some reason I always imagined it was broken in a way involving teen/young stupidity. I am glad to know that isn't the truth. Glad you were OK, a guitar is a small price to pay for all these years of Paul.