So it's now illegal in NSW to even touch your mobile whilst in your car.
I am struggling with this.
What am I suppose to when waiting at traffic lights ?
I can only scratch my balls for so long.
Any ideas ?

pick your nose, or from what a little hottie told us a while back (and i believe her because it happens) get an erection for no reason.... think its the car vibrations but i bar up nearly everytime i drive.

longwinded said...
Crack open another beer

Yeah but don't have the bottle opener on your keyring!!

I am trying to open another beer - ignition on - ignition off - ignition on - damn, snapped the key again, beer in my right shoe, oh sh!t lights have changed...

^^^^ when was that....? How long since you have been in WA?

But a friend returned recently - alive - said 'yep, still the same." Was between Perth and Rockingham.

bobajob said...
But a friend returned recently...

How recently? Around 07 or 08 the Mandurah bypass was completed, putting the first traffic lights South of Perth at Bunbury, well South of Rockingham.

hamburglar said...

Scotty88 said...


What am I suppose to when waiting at traffic lights ?
I can only scratch my balls for so long.
Any ideas ?

drive with boxing gloves on

How dare you put this hijacked thread back on track - Shame

GreenPat said...

bobajob said...
But a friend returned recently...

How recently? Around 07 or 08 the Mandurah bypass was completed, putting the first traffic lights South of Perth at Bunbury, well South of Rockingham.

Good to Bunbury finally has the power on

bazl said...
Pretty soon you will be able to use the phone AND have a beer...

www.psfk.com/2012/05/volvo-driverless-cars-on-public-roads.html

Thats a VERY neat site baz...lots of stuff I have not heard off

Scotty88 said...

So it's now illegal in NSW to even touch your mobile whilst in your car.
I am struggling with this.
What am I suppose to when waiting at traffic lights ?
I can only scratch my balls for so long.
Any ideas ?

Exactly! I agree.

Gettin back to the topic of the thread, I'm of the opinion that you should lose your license for as much as laying a finger on your phone when behind the wheel. $250 fine and three points for screwin with your phone when behind the wheel here in WA.

More than likely a license suspension if caught driving in excess of 0.05 alcohol. As a keen cyclist, I'd rather take my chances with someone coming up from behind with a six pack of beer in their belly, than someone reading, or writing a text message. I see people looking down at their phones almost every day while driving. The penalties are clearly, woefully inadequate.

I would imagine it would pretty hard to look at yourself in the mirror every day if you took out a dearly loved son , daughter _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ while muckin about with your phone, not to mention the poor c you despatched or handed a life in a wheelchair sentence to. Imagine needing a gastric massage every day, all because some self centred f wit had to write or read that text message. It's just not on , J

James, I totally agree with your post.
I am tempted to put my mobile in the glovebox whilst driving.
It can be that split second when you look at your phone after it beeps from text,email,etc that could be fatal.

Pitbull, handsfree means farkall as it's the distraction of 'being on the phone' NOT holding it one handed that is the key problem. i.e. focusing on 2 things at once.
Although one handed is dangerous.

Society is so reliant on mobiles now that we simply feel we can't live without them.
When I was on a family holiday in Fiji last year I left my mobile with my offsider at work. The feeling of walking around the resort for 2 weeks with a phone and being totally uncontactable was just freedom.

I like the handsfree. Chuck my phone on bluetooth, it connects to the car when I hop in, and when it rings, it's just a button on the stereo. Just like changing radio station.

And yes, it takes a split second to press the button. But so does checking the speed (which has to be done often to make sure we're not 'hoons'), winding down a window, turning on the A/C etc.

I don't find talking on the phone (handsfree) any more distracting than talking to a passenger.

What I don't get is the screen taxi drivers have, reading that all day really would be very distracting...

In a perfect world driving would be 100% safe, but no amount of rules/laws about what you can and can't touch is going to do that. People still make mistakes and will (in general) drive around with their heads half way up their arses.