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About two weeks ago they started an aggressive campaign to stop texting and driving.
I even got stopped by a police officer who seemed very disappointed when he looked on my passenger car seat and saw an empty Doritos bag instead of a cell phone. I said, "Sorry officer, I don't even own a cell phone."
So he gave me a $150 ticket for not maintaining my lane, even though I was only moving over to accommodate him, since he was being squeezed on the right by a bus.
No good deed goes unpunished. Never had a ticket for anything in my life. This is my first, and all for trying to accommodate a police officer. Of course, I didn't know it was an officer since he was in an unmarked card with tinted windows.
A student told me that she'd heard they were adding additional police officers for this blitz and I believe it. They are everywhere.
Even though I was unfairly targeted, I support this blitz and I am sick and tired of what cell phones are doing to everyday life. I am tired of fools who stop in the middle of the road to text. Yes, that actually happened to me not once, but twice in one day.
And trying to navigate a cart at the grocery store? They just stop wherever and stare endlessly in their phone.
I wear headphones so I don't have to hear their stupid conversations.
Even though our department has rules about students using cellphones in class, they still do it. I looked out at them the other day and said, "I'd love to take a picture of you fooling around on your cell phone and send it to your parents. I would caption it 'This is what your kid is doing with that $16k you spent on tuition this year.'"
Cher
Some have no problem wanting to ban things based on how they look or what they think they do (hey...you put a bayonet lug on that rifle you target shoot with? AHHHHHHHH assault rifle!)
You bring up good points. We need to add car stereos to the ban. Especially the ones that look really neat and are all digital. Add some speaker inspections and track purchases of those who buy bigger looking stereos for their screaming metal death traps they call cars.
And what are you anyway? A paid shill for electronics companies? A head phone humper? Science is not relevant here. I don't drive and text/listen with head phones/have a loud sound system. Why should anyone else have one? I get by just fine in my life without one. Take a public bus or train from out in the country to your job (oh, you don't have that? Walk or move) and you can play all day with your phone.
Did I miss anything? 
