The latest nonsense from Vegas

[frkrygow]

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Apr-04-Sun-2004/news/23561841.html



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Frank Krygowski [To reply, omit what's between "at" and "cc"]

[Zippy the Pinhead]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:31:23 -0400, "frkrygow"
> wrote:

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>http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Apr-04-Sun-2004/news/23561841.html

Yeah. Utter nonsense like:

"Drivers need to be aware they are out on the streets operating these
2-ton vehicles and in this day and age with so many distractions that
we face in our lives, the most important thing to focus on in your
driving is your driving," Cordeiro said.

Vazquez tells drivers: "Pay attention. Stay off the cell phone. Pull
over to the side. Quit eating when you drive. Quit putting your makeup
on. There's so many things people do."

[Pete]

"Zippy the Pinhead" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:31:23 -0400, "frkrygow"
> > wrote:
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> >
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>http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Apr-04-Sun-2004/news/23561841.h
tml
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> Yeah. Utter nonsense like:
>
> "Drivers need to be aware they are out on the streets operating these
> 2-ton vehicles and in this day and age with so many distractions that
> we face in our lives, the most important thing to focus on in your
> driving is your driving," Cordeiro said.
>
> Vazquez tells drivers: "Pay attention. Stay off the cell phone. Pull
> over to the side. Quit eating when you drive. Quit putting your makeup
> on. There's so many things people do."

There *was* a lot of crap in there.

"Vazquez now tells her kids to ride their bikes on the sidewalk, whether
it's legal or not. "Because it's too dangerous in the streets. I've seen how
people drive here in Las Vegas," she said."

The concept that "Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway has all of
the rights and is subject to all the duties applicable to the driver of a
vehicle," is fundamentally wrong.

Pete

[Zippy the Pinhead]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 23:11:37 GMT, "Pete" > wrote:

>There *was* a lot of crap in there.

I was just jerking Frank K's chain.

[Trudi Marrapodi]

In article >, "Pete"
> wrote:

> "Zippy the Pinhead" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 23:31:23 -0400, "frkrygow"
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Apr-04-Sun-2004/news/23561841.h
> tml
> >
> > Yeah. Utter nonsense like:
> >
> > "Drivers need to be aware they are out on the streets operating these
> > 2-ton vehicles and in this day and age with so many distractions that
> > we face in our lives, the most important thing to focus on in your
> > driving is your driving," Cordeiro said.
> >
> > Vazquez tells drivers: "Pay attention. Stay off the cell phone. Pull
> > over to the side. Quit eating when you drive. Quit putting your makeup
> > on. There's so many things people do."
>
> There *was* a lot of crap in there.
>
> "Vazquez now tells her kids to ride their bikes on the sidewalk, whether
> it's legal or not. "Because it's too dangerous in the streets. I've seen how
> people drive here in Las Vegas," she said."

Well...while I disagree with her decision (I think her kids run just as
much of a risk of getting killed by having someone's minivan back onto
them while exiting a driveway as they do on the streets), I can't blame
her for being upset by the habits of the modern multitasking driver who
has convinced himself that he can talk, eat, fax, comb hair, read the
newspaper and discipline the kids while driving.

> The concept that "Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway has all of
> the rights and is subject to all the duties applicable to the driver of a
> vehicle," is fundamentally wrong.

Why?
--
Trudi

"He's lean, he's elegant, he's quick, he's ethereal
He makes grown men cry in their cereal."
--Rex Thomas's couplet about Johnny Weir

[Mark Hickey]

(Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:

>Well...while I disagree with her decision (I think her kids run just as
>much of a risk of getting killed by having someone's minivan back onto
>them while exiting a driveway as they do on the streets), I can't blame
>her for being upset by the habits of the modern multitasking driver who
>has convinced himself that he can talk, eat, fax, comb hair, read the
>newspaper and discipline the kids while driving.

I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy road that
says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while driving you to
school, she doesn't love you very much".

Think that would stir the pot a bit?

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

[jeffbonny]

So Mark Hickey > says:

>I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy road that
>says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while driving you to
>school, she doesn't love you very much".
>
>Think that would stir the pot a bit?
>
Yep, the good kind of stirring though.

jeffb

[Zippy the Pinhead]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:07:32 -0700, Mark Hickey >
wrote:

>I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy road that
>says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while driving you to
>school, she doesn't love you very much".
>
>Think that would stir the pot a bit?

I would make a donation to that cause...

[Steven M. Scharf]

"Mark Hickey" > wrote in message
...

> I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy road that
> says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while driving you to
> school, she doesn't love you very much".

How about, "if your mommy drives you to school, she doesn't love you very
much."

[David Kerber]

In article >,
says...
> (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
>
> >Well...while I disagree with her decision (I think her kids run just as
> >much of a risk of getting killed by having someone's minivan back onto
> >them while exiting a driveway as they do on the streets), I can't blame
> >her for being upset by the habits of the modern multitasking driver who
> >has convinced himself that he can talk, eat, fax, comb hair, read the
> >newspaper and discipline the kids while driving.
>
> I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy road that
> says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while driving you to
> school, she doesn't love you very much".
>
> Think that would stir the pot a bit?

I'll contribute to that. Anybody else want to chip in?


--
Dave Kerber
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[Dane Jackson]

In rec.bicycles.misc David Kerber > wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> I've had fantasies about buying a huge billboard on a busy road that
>> says "If your mommy talks on the cellphone while driving you to
>> school, she doesn't love you very much".
>>
>> Think that would stir the pot a bit?
>
> I'll contribute to that. Anybody else want to chip in?

This is one of the more beautiful ideas I've heard for a while. I think
I could stump up some cash for this one...

--
Dane "works for cellphone provider" Jackson
"The bigger they are, the harder they hit."

[Trudi Marrapodi]

Know what I would love to see?

A public-service ad that would show this:

The scene is a workshop in a garage. A man is shown carefully guiding a
flat piece of wood through a buzz saw (he's wearing goggles to protect
himself from flying chips, of course).

Suddenly, the sound of a ringing cell phone is heard. Rather than stop
guiding the wood through the saw, the man simply reaches out with one hand
and picks up the phone. He hits a button. "Hello? Yeah, I'm cutting some
boards for those shelves Helen keeps bugging me to make. How about
you?..." He continues to guide the wood (shakily) with one hand, tucking
the phone under his chin momentarily to sip from a can of soda nearby,
then picks it back out from his chin, then looks away to various other
places as he continues to talk and saw: "Yeah, did you see that in the
paper? Here's what it says..." He tucks the phone under his chin again,
picks up the paper and reads from it into the phone while continuing to
guide the wood with the other hand. "Yeah, can you beat that?..." In the
background we hear two kids starting to fight. "Jessica, Phillip, stop
that right now or I'm going to tell your mother--What are you doing? Come
over here..." The kids come running around the workbench, near the saw,
squealing about something, while he attempts to referee the argument.
"Excuse me a sec, Al...now, what's going on, you two?"

These lines are superimposed on the scene:

If you wouldn't try to do all this while you were using a dangerous piece
of equipment...
....why do you do it when you're driving?
--
Trudi

"Boy, there sure is a lot of tension around here tonight. It's like a Joan Crawford movie."

[Luigi de Guzman]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:08:16 -0400,
(Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:

>Know what I would love to see?
>
>A public-service ad that would show this:
<SNIP>
>These lines are superimposed on the scene:
>
>If you wouldn't try to do all this while you were using a dangerous piece
>of equipment...
>...why do you do it when you're driving?

....because Americans have a God-given right to drive arbitrarily large
fuel-guzzling cars at high speeds on all roads, no matter what. And
to defend that from barbarians and tyrants that insist they do
something inordinately demanding, like pay attention, they will
exercise their other God-given right to slaughter you with
privately-held heavy weaponry.

....and if you attempt to exercise your merely constitutional right to
disagree, they will invoke their God-given duty to oppress, harass, or
exclude you.

-Luigi

"Democracy is the worst form of government--excluding all others"
-Churchill

[Marlene Blanshay]

"Trudi Marrapodi" > wrote in message
...
> Know what I would love to see?
>
> A public-service ad that would show this:
>
> The scene is a workshop in a garage. A man is shown carefully guiding a
> flat piece of wood through a buzz saw (he's wearing goggles to protect
> himself from flying chips, of course).
>
> >
> These lines are superimposed on the scene:
>
> If you wouldn't try to do all this while you were using a dangerous piece
> of equipment...
> ...why do you do it when you're driving?
> --
> Trudi
There was a skit like that on tv, the ad where the woman gets a cell phone
from her unsmiling father, and then he calls her. As she says, "I love you
dad", she loses control of the car and goes over the cliff. It was a takeoff
of that ad for some cell phone company, I can't recall which.

The other day I was crosssing at an intersection (on foot) and a woman
stopped- just barely. SHe was driving a Lexus, and while doing so was
blabbing on her phone and smoking a cigarette!