Re: [MBZ] fines for use of cell phone without hands free device?? One law for them and..........

2011-01-19 Thread R A Bennell
The bottom line is that they know most of us can do it too but there are enough jerks and incompetents out there to make it unsafe for all of us to do so and rather than ticket the ones who are not good at it, they choose to prevent all of us from doing so. I guess it is sort of like racial

Re: [MBZ] fines for use of cell phone without hands free device?? One law for them and..........

2011-01-18 Thread Hendrik Fay
So why can cops (et al) manage to drive and talk on the phone while the rest of us are classed as homicidal maniacs if we blah blah on the mobile? I know some may say they have advanced driver training but there is no law I am aware of that gives you an exemption if you have completed an

Re: [MBZ] fines for use of cell phone without hands free device?? One law for them and..........

2011-01-15 Thread ernest breakfield
the same exemption for cops (and some Emergency Services workers) to use cell phones while driving exists in at least some US states as well. the premise is that there is some information they'd rather not share on airwaves where people can listen in as easily (even though it's not as

Re: [MBZ] fines for use of cell phone without hands free device?? One law for them and..........

2011-01-14 Thread Hendrik Fay
Funnily enough a cop over here is allowed to use his mobile phone whilst driving (I think there are some other exemptions). Obviously they are trained to do this. Hendrik who may or may not have used a mobile phone whilst driving Mitch Haley wrote: Rich Thomas wrote: I take my camera with me