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| Topic | Teen receives $580 ticket. For using phone while driving. In McD's drive thru. |
| bigblu89 05/16/24 10:50:28 AM #53: | Funkydog posted...
Cops tackling the REAL serious crimes. In 2022, 3,308 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers. Distracted driving accounts for one in every six deadly vehicle accidents. Yes. I get that a kid pulling up the McDonald's app while in the drive through (assuming he's telling the truth and wasn't also using it while on the road) sounds like a silly thing for a cop to go on a "power trip" about, but let's not pretend that cell phone usage while driving isn't a major problem, or that there's at least a *slight* chance that kid was driving around on the app, placing his order as he was driving to the McDonalds, and that's what the officer observed and ultimately pulled him over for. Sorry if this kid gets zero sympathy from me and it sounds very "bootlicker" of me to side with the cop, but a friend of my lost their grandfather to a car accident where the person that struck him was distracted by their cell phone. --- It takes zero effort to be a good person. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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