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Defacto Unenforcable

By Kleinheider Posted on July 22, 2009 at 9:37 am

Police struggle with the new texting ban:

“You have to watch what they’re doing with their hands, where they’re looking, and you can also tell by the way they’re driving,” said Brown.

It’s also tough to prove, especially since there is gray area: Texting is forbidden, but dialing is perfectly legal.

“Knowing that you have a probable cause, that that is exactly what they were doing and they wasn’t doing some other thing, like dialing a phone number,” said Brown.

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7 Responses to “Defacto Unenforcable”

  1. SayUncle writes
    July 22nd, 2009 10:38 am

    Well, my phone is also a GPS, Mp3 player, radio, web browser, word & data processor and I hear it even has a phone.

  2. Mack writes
    July 22nd, 2009 10:40 am

    Good Lord. My phone is barely even a phone. People send me texts, but I have no clue how to open them.

    Word processor? Really?

  3. JohnnyC writes
    July 22nd, 2009 10:53 am

    Well, hopefully no one would be ticketed unless they were actually driving carelessly, but wouldn’t the phone’s memory and time stamp indicate whether the person had made a call or sent a text. If they pull someone over for driving carelessly, they can look in containers for alcohol. They can check purses for drugs if there’s reasonable suspicion. Is it different for text messages?

  4. SayUncle writes
    July 22nd, 2009 10:55 am

    “Word processor? Really?”

    Yes. Blackberry.

  5. Education Doctor writes
    July 22nd, 2009 11:02 am

    Let me make sure I understand: if I use my phone to take pictures while driving that’s legal as long as I don’t send it to someone in a text message? Or does it stop being texting if the message is a picture?

  6. Matt Collins writes
    July 22nd, 2009 11:04 am

    Yep - anyone with 3 brain cells would realize this is a bad law and should’ve never been passed.

  7. dan writes
    July 22nd, 2009 11:08 am

    This is a great example of why the number of days legislatures and congress are in session should be drastically reduced.

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