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Texting sixteen year old teen dies in first drive by herself.. Unreal..

alanleroyII
alanleroyII
Jun 2, 2013
12:38pm
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Originally posted by: BAGIANT
You find yourself dozing at the wheel and when you open your eyes....you tend to overreact to the situation....putting yourself in a worse one.


Yep. I've trained myself to never overreact when I wake up and I'm driving. They should teach "getting off the shoulder without flipping your car after a short nap" in Driver's Ed. It would have saved me years of mishaps. Professional drivers like bags, just know these things from experience.
snidely333
snidely333
Jun 2, 2013
12:50pm
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For some reason I'm thinking of Clark Griswold.

When I awake after dozing off at the wheel, the first thing I think of is, "I wonder how long I was sleeping?"
greyshadow4
greyshadow4
Jun 2, 2013
2:32pm
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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
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Originally posted by: dgp
there is no difference between a teenager now texting for hours, and a teenager in the 80s spending hours on the phone. it is not narcissism. its excessive, yes. narcissistic, no.
The difference, and it's a big difference with serious consequences, between today's teen cell phone use and yesterday's teen house phone use is portability.

Teens in the 80s weren't on their bedroom phone at school.

Teens in the 80s weren't on their bedroom phone at lunch.

Teens in the 80s weren't on their bedroom phone on the elevator

Teens in the 80s weren't on their bedroom phone at the movie theater.

Teens in the 80s weren't on their bedroom phone in the next stall.

Teens in the 80s weren't on their bedroom phone while driving.

Because today's devices are completely portable, their overuse is far more impactful than a 1980s teen's overuse of their bedroom phone. The reason we care more about cell phone overuse today is because it can and does kill, something that didn't happen from 1980s teens using their bedroom phone.

Today's cell phone overuse is more a result of simple human insecurity than narcicism, but there's a lot of overlap.


someone in this thread needs to look up "narcissism" in the dictionary. hint: it is not me.
Don
Don
Jun 3, 2013
2:19am
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For the record: Young DonDiego never had a bedroom telephone.

O2bnVegas
O2bnVegas
Jun 3, 2013
11:19am
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O2bnVegas never had a phone of her own until she was old enough to have a job and pay for it...but that's another ice age.
Dan Svatass
Dan Svatass
Jun 3, 2013
2:34pm
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An 16 year old who was texting behind the wheel when he ran a red light and killed a 27-year-old mother of two earlier this year has been indicted on manslaughter, felony texting-while-driving and other charges.

The phone shows he sent and received 14 texts and four phone calls in the 32 minutes before the collision. The final text came at 2:36 a.m., about a minute before the estimated time of the accident.

It's bad enough to kill yourself texting. It's a whole lot worse when you kill some random kids' mom. "5-year-old Mary Grace and McKenzie, who will turn 2 years old this month."
albeadle33
albeadle33
Jun 4, 2013
5:27am
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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
It really is terrible that people just don't appreciate the danger of distracted driving. For 2011, an estimated 25% of crashes involved drivers talking and texting on cell phones. Every day, I hope that none of the people I care about talks on their phone or texts while driving, or encounters someone else who is. It's just too dangerous.



The people who do it aren't necessarily bad. They're just foolish. Foolish in a way that kills, themselves and others.


NOTHING stops kids who think they know everything and are bullet proof. Nothing. All we can do is hope we can stay out of their way, and it's the other guy who pays the price for their foolishness.

How old are Boy Scouts anyway? What gay boy would even bother joining them, and I'd guess the reason no male homo scout leaders are allowed in is because of the pedophile factor. Why tempt them like that creepy Sandusky afforded himself.



Dan Svatass
Dan Svatass
Jun 4, 2013
5:55am
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Originally posted by: albeadle33
NOTHING stops kids who think they know everything and are bullet proof. Nothing. All we can do is hope we can stay out of their way, and it's the other guy who pays the price for their foolishness.
We can do a lot more than just hope. A LOT more.

What good parents do is educate their children to realize they don't know everything and are not bullet proof. Sure, kids can be stubborn. So can non-kids. But most parents succeed at this. Not all, but most.

The wrong choice is to throw up our hands in disgust and pretend nothing can be done. Lots of things can be done, many of them worthwhile. We should do them, lives are worth it.

As for the other thing, I don't think I'll get anywhere with someone who in 2013 thinks "homo" = pedophile. But for the record, Jerry Sandusky married his wife Dorothy in 1966 and together they raised six children, by all appearances model heterosexuals in the mold the Boy Scouts still looks for.
sooperkill
sooperkill
Jun 4, 2013
8:46am
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im glad shes dead.
Dan Svatass
Dan Svatass
Jun 4, 2013
9:05am
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im glad shes dead.
You're glad a 16 year old girl died in a car crash.

Wow.
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