[Mpls] Cell phone stats

[Rick Mons]

On Feb 25, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Michael Atherton wrote:

> I
>  remember an article
> in the L.A. Times reporting on all the crazy things people
> did while driving on the freeways: ... having sex, (there was actually
> an accident in which three people died on the Pasadena Fwy
> in an Jag; two of them were naked and the other in some
> stage of undress)

This underscores why banning (or curtailing) cell phones is fool-hardy. 
  If a cell phone had been available, they could have engaged in phone 
sex and would likely be alive today.

On a more serious note, the Department of Public Safety advocates the 
use of cell phones to obtain traffic information in lieu of KBEM's 
broadcasts of traffic snarls.  Of course, the DPS staffer also 
admonished me to pull off the freeway when calling for traffic 
information.

Let's see ... I'm probably running late while driving and finding 
forward progress is either stalled or at a walking pace.  So, I call 
511 to see if I should take an alternate route.  But before I do, I 
pull over at the next exit; find an off-road and off-shoulder spot to 
park, make the call, obtain the information, then restart the car, wait 
for the ramp stop lights to let me back on the freeway and resume my 
trip.

Yep.  Sure.  Bet lots of us responsible folks will do exactly that.  
(/sarcasm)



Rick Mons
Shoreview - Tanglewood n'hood

"Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the 
rest."  (Samuel Clemens)