Daley Blames - Who Else? - The Media For Oprah-geddon
Chicago Gets Googled
Friday Flashback - Old School Oprah
Today's Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors the Dead
Review: Paramount Room
Winnetka becomes the latest community to consider a law requiring hands-free cell phone use, much like Chicago's law in both content and likelihood to be enforced. The village had briefly considered a ban on all forms of "distracted driving," like eating, grooming, fiddling with the radio, and whaling on the kids in the backseat, but settled on one that is more easily ignored.
Chicagoist has seen some of the stats about the number of tickets issued to those caught cell-handed -- it really does happen. But we've also seen about 800 times as many people cruising around yammering away as if they'd never heard of the law. Most troubling, about every other policeman we see is doing it too. We suppose it's best to think of the law as something that gets tacked on after you've been collared for speeding or running a red light. We can't really expect police to put down their phones to pull over everyone else.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Yesterday a friend of mine got a ticket for speaking on her cell phone while driving in Chicago. So I guess it does happen. I have a relative who is a cop, and he's never given out a ticket for that. (and no, he can't fix your parking tickets!)
What's the use if it is not enforced? This is one of the biggest jokes I have ever seen. Kinda like those "optional stop signs" with the white edges. Come on people, it was a joke!
I'm proposing a ban on fuzzy dice and pine tree air fresheners. Recent studies have shown that 79% of all fender benders are caused by people adjusting their fuzzy dice...
adjusting their "fuzzy dice" huh. :)
I always wonder about the people with more than one air freshener in their car. Like when you see 3 tree air fresheners hanging from the mirror. Either it smells THAT bad in the car, or they are the absolute laziest people on the planet. Lazier than the people with 7 years worth of city stickers taking up half their windshield.
The people with 7 years' worth of city stickers are just trying to prove their cred to us transplants.
I saw a cop on a motorcycle pull over a guy who was yammering away on his cell phone as he drove east on Addison. I think the law SHOULD be enforced because I hate when drivers are using one hand to drive and the other to hold the phone. Yesterday I was almost clobbered by a women in a black VW bug who made an illegal U-Turn in the middle of Halsted street while she was on her phone. She got the death from me and I got a "whoopsy!" shrug from her.
Last week I counted how many folks were yammering away on their phones while driving in a stretch on the Kennedy - I stopped counting at 10 after I was blown away by the guy actually texting on his Blackberry while reading from a sheet of paper - at 50 mph! What are these people thinking?
My girlfriend got a ticket on LSD for talking on her cell phone without a handsfree - but the cop didn't show up in court, so it got tossed out.
I will admit, I was a little happy to see her get the ticket, as I have been constantly telling her that she needs to not do that...guess it took an actual law enforcement official to convince her.