Actually, although my life seems to have fallen off the rails (I have gout, my
laptop died, due to snowmageddon I didn't work yesterday so my class took extra
time Tuesday night and tonight, and all the fools trying to commute at a
million miles an hour and miss the road make commuting a nightmare) my MB seems
to be doing well. I've finally put 1,000 miles on the '84 190D and it seems to
be doing better every day. I do need to find time to tighten the wheel bearing
I put in last week and get it aligned and put in a new cruise control amp (this
one just wants to accelerate) but otherwise I'm quite pleased with it.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:45:30 -0500
From: "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] fines for use of cell phone without hands free
device??
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Having lived for 65 years in what may be the most corrupt state in the U.S.;
(Since 2000 Florida had the most, [729], federal corruption convictions of
any state with second place New York far behind with only 633); we
Floridians don't necessarily obey onerous laws to the letter. We find ways
to avoid them.
For example, a friend who is a sales rep frequently gets calls from
customers while he's driving.
When he was driving through counties that had the "no cell phone" law, he
would put his cell phone between two pieces of bread and hold it up to his
ear. The single time a cop stopped him, he dropped the bread slices and the
cell phone on the floor and picked up a real sandwich.
The conversation went something like this:
"You were talking on a cell phone and that is illegal while you are
driving."
"I was eating a sandwich."
"Why did you have it up to your ear?"
"So I could see where I was going."
"Where is the sandwich?"
He picked up a real sandwich which had a bite out of it.
"Where is your cellphone?"
He pretended to look for it and then retrieved it from the floor.
The cop went back to his car and apparently called headquarters.
"You can go.", said the cop.
That was the only time he was stopped, and he won't have that
problem again since he bought a new car which has a
built-in microphone and speaker.
Perhaps you can cut a hole in a slice of bread for the lens,
Randy, and use your cellphone camera the same way.
Of course, if you were a lawyer in Florida you would have
nothing to worry about since cops never ticket lawyers unless
they're blind drunk or politicians in a different party than the
sheriffs or chiefs.
I saw in the "sheriffs list" in the local paper where a woman had
been arrested for carrying a concealed weapon because she had
one of those little "pepper spray" cannisters in her purse.
Interesting.
Gerry
Note: Actually I prefer to lurk and simply enjoy the OT and
benefit from the descriptions of Mercedes fixes, but for some
strange reason our old Mercedes are running well and no one
has any OT to talk about. Maybe it's a good omen; or bad?
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