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While I think it's safe to drink a coffee while driving and answer a phone call, when you text and drive or eat a ****ty Taco Bell taco while driving, you're putting other people's lives at risk. This isn't an issue of "the nanny state" getting in people's business. This is that state saying "hey, fat ass, if you waited till you got home to eat the food you were too lazy to make a home, you wouldn't have killed the guy minding his own business."
It does sound like this law could be a bit excessive, but I have no problem with a law that says you have to drive while you're driving so you don't kill someone who wasn't a selfish piece of **** (and yes, if you do these things while you drive, I think you're a ****ty person basically saying your life is more important that everyone else's; that's the attitude that gets people killed in traffic).
As far as I'm concerned, they should add putting on makeup and nail polish to the list. I'm tired of dodging swerving cars because people are texting, digging into a McDonald's bag or are 3" from the rear view mirror while doing up their faces.
One dem legislator tried to make telling falsehoods to gain a woman's favor, desreved a rape charge.
Green brook or some nearby town bans eating in your car...I think the intent was to stop fast food lots as gathering places.
Violate an administrative gun law and find your self locked away with a murderous gangbanger.
Yes indeed NJ is overflowing with so many innane laws that any prejudice on the part of the cop can be hidden by some violation of legal minutia.
Nj has a strong tradition of fleecing, the pols are practiced at it and the people love it.
Someday, someone will realize that NJ firearm id holders have been scanned far more thoroughly than the effort to screen travellers for quick acces thru TSA lines.
So why not let NJ FID holders thru TSA lines at the airport???
Logic hasn't enough money to pay the bridge toll to cross over into NJ.
As far as I'm concerned, they should add putting on makeup and nail polish to the list. I'm tired of dodging swerving cars because people are texting, digging into a McDonald's bag or are 3" from the rear view mirror while doing up their faces.
How about picking your nose, changing the radio station, adjusting the climate control, blinking, etc.?
And should cops be allowed to talk on radios and type info into onboard computers while driving? (Usually at a high rate of speed, no less)
How about picking your nose, changing the radio station, adjusting the climate control, blinking, etc.?
And should cops be allowed to talk on radios and type info into onboard computers?
You don't know how hypocritical you sound
Do those things cause the driver to swerve into the lane next to them because their eyes aren't on the road?
I encounter this at least once every day. If you don't, either you don't drive expressways or you're not paying attention.
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