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Title: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Bolohead on September 18, 2012, 11:27:29 PM
Watch, you will see his cell phone go flying

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Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Tyler on September 19, 2012, 01:13:12 AM
Darwin award...
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: StumpyDave on September 19, 2012, 04:33:11 AM
Good grief!  How stupid can you get?  He appears to have been lucky enough to get away with his life and limbs all present if not intact.
Some people really shouldn't be allowed out in public without supervision.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Mikekoz13 on September 19, 2012, 05:31:58 AM
IMO... texting while driving ANY vehicle should be grounds for loss of license. On a motorcycle it's just plain stupid.

I was in Ocean City Maryland this past weekend for DelMarVa Bike week. On the way out of town on Sunday morning I passed a guy on a sport bike checking his messages on his phone. I just accelerated away from him. Of course two blocks later he went blazing by me.... dumbass.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Drainman66 on September 19, 2012, 05:48:04 AM
Soon to be a pothole filler, what a dumb ass.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: D.A.L.U.I. on September 19, 2012, 06:24:30 AM
Just shows how some people are asking to be road slime--I also noticed, and not surprised that he didn't have a helmet!
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Paul the Headblader on September 19, 2012, 06:39:19 AM
auch!
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: balddaniel on September 19, 2012, 06:55:52 AM
On my to work this morning I saw a woman texting in her jeep.  And of course, as usual she blasted past me.  I was going 60 in a 55 so she must have been going at least 70 another one for the Dumb Ass list!
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: -Doug- on September 19, 2012, 07:00:23 AM
Wow! What a dumb thing to do!
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Sir Harry on September 19, 2012, 07:05:22 AM
Some people....smh....and those are the same people who whine about high insurance rates.....
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: theebaldguy on September 19, 2012, 07:06:46 AM
I can't believe how stupid some people are! If that dude had drifted a few more inches, he would have been road pizza.  :/O
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Slynito on September 19, 2012, 09:41:11 AM
For some it takes some grey hair and a few scars before they calculate the long tern effects of their actions. Our state politicos won't pass a law against texting.

 O:O
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Mikekoz13 on September 19, 2012, 09:42:59 AM
For some it takes some grey hair and a few scars before they calculate the long tern effects of their actions. Our state politicos won't pass a law against texting.

 O:O

Texting laws are a joke. They are NOT enforced.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Slynito on September 19, 2012, 09:49:28 AM
For some it takes some grey hair and a few scars before they calculate the long tern effects of their actions. Our state politicos won't pass a law against texting.

 O:O

Texting laws are a joke. They are NOT enforced.

You are probably right. Doing nothing is a much better solution to this deadly problem.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: waine on September 19, 2012, 10:11:10 AM
There are no pills for stupidity!

Where the f*** is his helmet?  It should be a law in every State in the US that helmets are compulsory.

Every day I ride 40 KM's to work on my bike through heavy traffic.  It is astonishing, the number of drivers I see texting on their mobiles while waiting in backed up traffic.  I feel like kicking in their doors to wake them up!
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: D.A.L.U.I. on September 19, 2012, 11:15:09 AM
For some it takes some grey hair and a few scars before they calculate the long tern effects of their actions. Our state politicos won't pass a law against texting.

 O:O

Texting laws are a joke. They are NOT enforced.

I've seen one place they're enforced, Westchester County NY--if you use your phone without hands free, or text--you're going to get popped--it's like a couple of hundred bucks.  They sit watching people at traffic lights and stop signs in particular--better than a radar stake out. 
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Slynito on September 19, 2012, 01:01:44 PM
I saw a coed coming out of a gas station the other day...she was smoking, talking on her cell phone and shifting gears. Talk about distraction! Give her a "Green Stamp", too.  :Xo!
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Hingatao on September 19, 2012, 01:07:22 PM
Retards like that should be taken out of the gene pool.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: -Doug- on September 19, 2012, 01:17:37 PM
I work on a college campus and texting while walking is a big problem too. We lost a student last year because she was texting while crossing a street. She didn't see the bus coming that hit her. I don't see how a few sentences could be so important that you have to write or read them while driving or walking when your focus is needed else where.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Hingatao on September 19, 2012, 03:23:58 PM
The city of Honolulu recently passed a law making it illegal just to hold a phone while crossing a street.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Slynito on September 19, 2012, 06:00:47 PM
It was only a few years ago that we didn't have cell phones, how the he!! did we survive? Did we wait until we got to our destination or got home to call someone or check the answering machine for calls. We are self destructing. Ahhhhh, rant over.

 ;D
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Plano on September 19, 2012, 06:35:36 PM
Wow, the guy is majorly lucky. Hey, they invented SIRI for a reason! Just talk to the phone, she'll do the texting for you! lol.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: warhawk on September 19, 2012, 06:39:53 PM
 :/O :/O :/O  I absolutely hate idiots who text and drive.  :Xo! :Xo! :Xo!

WARHAWK O0
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Slynito on September 19, 2012, 06:53:40 PM
:/O :/O :/O  I absolutely hate idiots who text and drive.  :Xo! :Xo! :Xo!

WARHAWK O0

What are they thinking when they do it?   :/O :/O :/O
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Mikekoz13 on September 20, 2012, 07:13:07 AM
For some it takes some grey hair and a few scars before they calculate the long tern effects of their actions. Our state politicos won't pass a law against texting.

 O:O

Texting laws are a joke. They are NOT enforced.

You are probably right. Doing nothing is a much better solution to this deadly problem.

No need to take a back handed swipe at me. Passing a law is NOT doing something UNLESS the law is enforced. In most places it is not enforced... as a guy that rides a motorcycle my life is in even more danger, than those driving cars, by texting idiots.

My guess is that if I were physically standing in front of you that back handed swipe would have never happened.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: MattD on September 20, 2012, 11:06:34 AM
Check this guy out!  :/O Even though it's a quick ticket to death, it's still impressive talent.   :/O

http://youtu.be/fmwlCXKafkw
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: TheSlyBear on September 20, 2012, 12:45:55 PM
Stupidity is never impressive.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: schro on September 25, 2012, 01:17:49 PM
For some it takes some grey hair and a few scars before they calculate the long tern effects of their actions. Our state politicos won't pass a law against texting.

 O:O

Texting laws are a joke. They are NOT enforced.

You are probably right. Doing nothing is a much better solution to this deadly problem.

No need to take a back handed swipe at me. Passing a law is NOT doing something UNLESS the law is enforced. In most places it is not enforced... as a guy that rides a motorcycle my life is in even more danger, than those driving cars, by texting idiots.

My guess is that if I were physically standing in front of you that back handed swipe would have never happened.

 P@^
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Laser Man on September 25, 2012, 03:52:33 PM
Mikekoz is right - the laws are passed, but not enforced, so they're useless until something really bad happens. 

I live in the most crowded state in the nation.  Use of handheld cellphones while driving any vehicle is prohibited by law.  Want to know how many close calls I had because of some idiot talking on a handheld or texting or checking e-mails?  I've lost count.  The law is so routinely and widely violated that the state and local police couldn't possibly stop all the violators.

A German friend of mine suggested that the law needs to have real teeth.  His solution: your auto / motorcycle insurance is null and void if you are in an accident while using a cell phone.  You bear the full risk financially as well as on your conscience. 
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: kalbo on September 25, 2012, 09:54:12 PM
A lot of Filipinos are guilty of texting while driving or riding a motorbike. It is a good thing that the law against it is now being enforced and has stiff penalties.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: tomgallagher on September 26, 2012, 09:15:39 AM
Really really stupid.
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: Ironvalor on October 09, 2012, 06:52:23 AM
There is somebody making a 30 minute safety slide show because of this right now
Title: Re: Texting while riding a motorcycle
Post by: theman on October 11, 2012, 01:06:05 PM
Anyone, but Anyone that texts while in a automobile , mc, should have their license taken away for life.   :Xo!