Anyone Ever Get Out Of a Cell Phone Ticket?

I haven't lived in California in ten years but I know the law there...your phone needs to be hands-free. How in the f*** do you not know this and abide by it?

Cops are nothing but tax collectors with a gun. Jack booted thugs picking on the weak and vulnerable. It's time for a revolution.

Was in Vegas in January.Left the M-Resort and was on my way back to Orleans.Was in the left hand turn lane when a squad car pulled up next to me and I was on my phone-not knowing I was breaking the law.I hear from over a speaker"You on the cell phone".Look over and they are motioning to roll down my window.I hang up the phone and put the window down.They ask me if I knew that I was breaking the law, and I tell them no.They ask me where I'm from and if its legal there.Tell them I'm from Wisconsin and it is legal there.They tell me its dangerous and against the law in the whole state.I agree with them that it is dangerous, but did not know it was law in Nevada.They ask me where I was going and I tell them Orleans.At that point I thought they were gonna tell me where to pull over so they could ticket me.The light was about to change.I figured if I get ticketed it was my own fault,not gonna get upset,it was my own fault and they are doing there job.Instead they tell me to be safe and have a good night.Very cool.At no point was I trying to "talk my way out of it".They respected that and now I know better.

One of our drivers were pulled over by the CHP for being on the cell phone. The cop told him that only certain people can be using the phone while driving. Cab drivers, truckers and naturally the police.

This law was put in affect because it distracted drivers...I was stopped at a light...I wasn't distracted at all!

The law is needed because of teen drivers. I was coming home from work one night, the same way I had traveled for over 20 years and I was making a left hand turn at a two stop sign 4-way intersection. I did not have the stop sign in my direction. There was no one at the stop sign to my left but I saw a young girl at the stop sign in a big SUV to my right feverishly talking on her phone and as the car traveling in the opposite direction from me passed by so I could make my left turn I held fast because it just didn't feel right and sure enough the young lady pulled out very fast made a left hand turn right by me like I didn't exist or it was a 4-way stop. I tried to make eye contact with her and honked my horn as she drove by but she was oblivious to the world with that phone at her ear. She was stopped at a stop sign and obviously distracted. I would have been creamed if I followed the law and right of way and made the turn.

***** THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE SAN DIEGO PD *****
(copied out of one of my trip reports from a couple of years ago)

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So I’m riding around Downtown San Diego, up this street, and down that street trying to find a gas station.
I had tried to locate one on the GPS, but I’m driving, it’s dark,
I don’t know where I am, so I abandoned that idea.
FINALLY, we stumble across one, fill up, and head back to drop off the car.
Wait a minute, ......... now I’m lost again.
So it’s drive all around while still trying to listen to the GPS,
....................... but I don’t want to get back on the highway Mr. GPS Man.
Well after a few upsetting minutes, because we have a plane to catch ya know,
it finally sends me up the correct street ..................... the WRONG WAY !!!!
I no sooner turn onto the street when I hear “One Way Street”.
Okay, I immediately pull over to the right,
then I see a SD PD cruiser ahead of me on my side of the road with his spotlight on.
It must have been him shouting the warning over his outside speaker.
Oh-Oh !!!!! ...........

So I try to do a U-ey (that’s Massachusetts for U-Turn) and now he turns on his blue lights.
Double Oh-Oh.

He now pulls into the middle of the road and stops, holding up the traffic for me so that I can turn around.
Then I drive a short bit up to the next intersection, thinking now he’s going to pull me over,
but he turned off his lights and end of story.

Now I’m thinking that the street was either recently made a one-way,
and/or the GPSs have it wrong because this must happen a lot.
He seemed to just be sitting there in the dark waiting for drivers who are obviously unfamiliar
with the area to drive up this street the wrong way.

Well I was very impressed with the SD PD for their professionalism and kindness during my dumb driving debacle.

They certainly live up to the police slogan “To Serve and Protect”.

Thank You Officer.

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Rick

Many times I was breaking the law: Speeding,cell phone in hand,open container,lane change without signaling,following too close and MORE!
Just lucky,I guess.
Yes,I was in a pack of cars that were speeding and he picked me out. "Yes,but I caught you,Sir".
I was guilty of speeding,but it still made me angry that the other drivers "got away" with out a ticket.
Unlucky? He may have picked me out because he didn't like my car('84 Supra w/ FART CAN exhaust).
My point is that I have been lucky more times than not for not getting a citation when I knowingly broke the law.
Like so many people that get a DUI/DWI. They simply got caught and I never did.
The driving home "one-eyed" thing? Guilty.
If I got a citation for EVERY time I was breaking the law,I would have lost my license a long time ago!
Or be in AA or in jail or court a lot more than I have been.
So far: ZERO.
I should have got your ticket,many times over.
Guilty.

I agree with you! Your car was not in motion,you were in traffic,stopped.So the way to avoid that ticket is to
let it go to voice mail,pull over and call the person back? On the freeway? Is THAT legal?
I don't have blue tooth set up-it has to go to my ear .Speaker phone is not loud enough for me to hear it at freeway speeds.
https://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html

No matter which side of the issue you are on, most experts agree that if you drive with a cell phone, avoid unnecessary calls and always make the driving task your top priority. If you must make an extended call, pull off the road and park in a safe place.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NocellphonesSouthsidePlaceTX.JPG
That sign is in Texas. WTF?

Often it is necessary to me to pull off the highway to make a phone call or do dial my phone and enter long passwords for a telecon that I then listen to on the way to work. There is a scenic lookout parking lot that is very convenient for this purpose. The parking lot is also popular with folks that seem to want to make new friends and go chat in the nearby woods.

Bags is never going to see that he was in error. He may admit he did something against the law, but in his eyes he was not wrong because he was not distracted.
There is a local commercial we have about a girl who killed a family of 4 while looking at her phone to see who was calling. Her sister was the one calling her...can you imagine the guilt?