Using phone handset whilst driving

seen a guy drive a manual with a ciggie in one hand and phone in the other, negotiating the traffic calming measures down my street, priceless.

seen a guy drive a manual with a ciggie in one hand and phone in the other, negotiating the traffic calming measures down my street, priceless.

Seen that too - but with a cup of tea as well. And it was fully laden skip lorry.

I feel like standing at a busy road junction one weekend and just photographing drivers using their mobiles whilst driving. And making it obvious whats happening, include their registration number in the photo too. Then send the photos onto the police.

Various police forces do community enforcement programmes. Basically you and a couple of mates go and stand out with a PCSO noting down a particular offence (usually speeding) and the driver gets a letter and a warning on their record.

Legally, I don't think the police can act on evidence that they haven't gathered themselves, so no fines could be issued on a report from the public. However, they can choose to notify a respondent that they have been advised that they have a claim that they have been observed breaking the law.

Tower Hamlets Wheelers did just this kind of exercise with people driving into ASLs. Included three cops and most of the rolling fleet of tfl vehicles.

Seen that too - but with a cup of tea as well. And it was fully laden skip lorry.

Seen a woman on the school run in a chelsea tractor drinking tea from a bone china mug with the saucer. I was truly slack-jawed with amazement.

Mobiles have infiltrated our lives so much in the last 5 years that its no wonder really that people use them in so much of their everyday lives. I work in central London, its horrific how many peds, cyclists, truck drivers, bus drivers and car drivers appear not to be able to leave their phone when it rings. I saw a ped yesterday wander out into the Euston Rd while the traffic was running past him cause he was engrossed in writting a text.

I used to pull up alongside the driver at traffic lights and do the "put the phone down" mime. If that didn't work, I'd up the revs:-

3000rpm. They just started talking louder or shouting.
6000rpm. Window closes, phone conversation continues.
9000rpm. Finger in ear, shouting into the phone.
12000rpm. They hang up as conversation is impossible.

Still had another 4500rpm in the bank too. Gotta love earplugs.

Another time I came up next to a car with a twonk on the phone, window open, so I beeped my horn. It startled him so much he dropped the phone out of the window. Oh how I sniggered as it smashed on the ground. He was just starting to get out of the car to retreive it (and probably to confront me) when he must have realised it isn't very clever to start a fight with someone dressed from top to toe in body armour and wearing thick gloves and a full face helmet.

Is it possible to have WAC stickers made with the WAC on the sticky side?

What you really need to do is get some with WAC on both sides. On the sticky side it should be a solvent based material so that when the sticker is removed, WAC will be cleanly etched into the paintwork.

I used to pull up alongside the driver at traffic lights and do the "put the phone down" mime. If that didn't work, I'd up the revs:-

3000rpm. They just started talking louder or shouting.
6000rpm. Window closes, phone conversation continues.
9000rpm. Finger in ear, shouting into the phone.
12000rpm. They hang up as conversation is impossible.

Still had another 4500rpm in the bank too. Gotta love earplugs.

Another time I came up next to a car with a twonk on the phone, window open, so I beeped my horn. It startled him so much he dropped the phone out of the window. Oh how I sniggered as it smashed on the ground. He was just starting to get out of the car to retreive it (and probably to confront me) when he must have realised it isn't very clever to start a fight with someone dressed from top to toe in body armour and wearing thick gloves and a full face helmet.

+1

Done that a few times in my classic Mini. Doesn't quite have the rev-range of a bike but it pops 2-4 foot flames if you take it past 5k. This is accompanied by a fucking loud noise. Open window, on the phone, not only are they now wondering what the fuck just happened, whoever was on the other end of the phone thinks they're connected to a bomb explosion.

i overtook a dude on a bike yesterday, on his mobile. well, i think he was using it as his mp3 player (chirst i nearly said WALKMAN), and was fiddling around with it, with his headphones on.

i asked him if he thought that was a good idea.

the kids eh?

Last year sometime I saw a kid riding up Adelaide Rd no handed, in his left hand he was leading his obligatory 'Staffie' and in the other he was holding and talking on his mobile phone.

skillz!

I saw a ambulance driver sending a text message while driving along this week.

Certain amount of irony there

there's a set of lights for a ped crossing in tooting, mitcham road, near the bottom of church lane. Buses often blatantly run the red as they have presumably just had enough of the previous 1,000 red lights along the last 100 metres (we give peds this many crossing yet they still prefer to run out into traffic). I was waiting at the bottom of church lane to turn right, and there is usually a safe moment to do so when this particular crossing goes red and stops the flow coming from your right.

As usual, someone came through after the lights had changed and I prepared to move off, well I would have except a people carrier came straight through the red afterwards, about three seconds into the red (scattering the peds) and on a beeline for me. He wasn't going that fast, thankfully, because I was able to witness the driver, "steering" with his forearms as he sat there operating, with both hands, either a games console, PDA, sat nav, or very large phone, completely oblivious to the road. Not only had he not been looking at the lights to see them change, he had not even known that he'd gone through. All this over a distance of about 70 yards. The vehicle had the usual green disc and "I am become death" sticker.

I was too surprised to think rationally, I probably would have been able to give chase, but I tend to just get wherever I'm going asap , just to reduce the chance of death/maiming from these cunts

Minicab drivers are always on their mobiles/pdas/gps units, getting directions to their next job.
There should be a law that information like this is called through and they have to listen to it with headphones.. or the GPS unit is permanent fixture to the dash like a HUD rather than being a phone they can fuck around with. Oh, and I should be legally ok to shoot anyone in the head that risks my life.

people here in berlin love to ride bikes talking on the phone. i keep wanting to say something. today i actually saw someone riding down müntzstrasse while peeling a banana. i couldn't believe it.

None of them have anything on this guy:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

None of them have anything on this guy:
YouTube - Texting on Motorcycle

Organ Donor

I think for motorists it went form a £30 fine and 3 points to £60 and 6 points, not sure on the points though. But is you can report them then I would. Does anyone have a link to a form that you can download and errrr a reputable witness to back you up as these fuckwits should be taken off the road and as previously mentioned when I have showed someone the error of their ways all I ended up was getting a mouthful of abuse.

It is now the time to fight back.

Organ Donor

I think for motorists it went form a £30 fine and 3 points to £60 and 6 points, not sure on the points though. But is you can report them then I would. Does anyone have a link to a form that you can download and errrr a reputable witness to back you up as these fuckwits should be taken off the road and as previously mentioned when I have showed someone the error of their ways all I ended up was getting a mouthful of abuse.

It is now the time to fight back.

You could organize private prosecutions, that would get a lot of publicity if nothing else...

Photographic or video evidence is key, and it's three points and a fine... On some roads round here(sw1) it would be like shooting fish in a barrel!

bringing this back up,

I was driving behind a tatty car the other day, through brixton and along dulwich road into herne hill, the driver was on the phone the whole time, and driving how people on the phone do: like a drunk person. I was periodically hooting at him, and making gestures to put the phone down. He didn't.
As we both stopped at the lights, (I got there a bit later as he was speeding down dulwich road) we pulled alongside each other and I could see he had no nearside mirror, and an open laptop on the dashboard, he wound down his window in question to my remonstration, where I explained that what he was doing was illegal and dangerous. Of course, instead of apologising, he knew better and it was OK and he had done nothing wrong, I stopped listening to him and said I'd report him, he looked all pained and incredulous, like he was some kind of victim.

I saw some estate agent looking fella driving towards the Fulham road, coffee in one hand and phone in the other talking away, caught up with him at the lights gestured to him to wind down the passenger window and called him a baby killer and drivers using the phone kill people. He was so apologetic it nearly made me feel bad lol

Don't feel bad, he's an estate agent! He's schooled in lying.

A driver changed lanes without checking I was in that lane, I went ahead of him and looked at him. He was driving whilst eating the biggest baguette sandwich with tomatoes etc. spilling out. When I gave him a dirty look he looked at me with a "what!?" face....

A colleague of mine does her commute on foot. She was telling me how annoyed she is at pedestrians who talk on their mobiles and can't keep a straight line "if people want to talk, they should stop, sit down and have a conversation"...

What I saw yesterday really took the piss. Some fuck face in this stupid 4x4 Range Rover turbo thing, massive car with private plates Tony4Cunt or something like that smoking with one hand while texting with the other attempting to turn a corner. Proper gangster looking fucker so I decided against calling him a cunt. 10 seconds later, exactly the same car comes past, this time a white version with plates like Dave1Fuck or something. He too was texting. Must have been texting eachother. Proper gangsters init!

What do you think they were saying to each other? "We need to hurry up and hide these shooters!" Or, "How long until we get to this secret gangster bumming location?"

i have this overwhelming desire to snatch a mobile phone out of somebodys hand when they are sat at traffic lights nattering away and then hand it in to the nearest police station and say that they were talking on it and it fell out of their hand. just waiting to find someone doing it with the window down. i dont think i should go as far as d locking their window to get the phone out of their hands so i just have to be patient.

sorry if i missed something.