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20 August 2019, 10:31 PM | #31 |
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I wish it would be the same everywhere. Phones and cars don’t match.
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20 August 2019, 11:09 PM | #32 | |
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Several years ago I was walking to a final meeting of the day. A young girl - maybe late teens was walking, reading her phone and had her ear phones plugged in. She turned her back on the edge of the road and moved back a small, small step. A bus drive by and clipped her and in doing so dragged her up under the wheel arch. Took seven minutes for a motorcycle ambulance to get there. I had never heard screaming or seen disarticulated limbs in a wheel well. like that. She had milk and noodles in a bag with two sets of chopsticks. I have always wondered if they were spare sticks and napkin or for a special friend. She would die as three of us including the bike ambulance rider (bloody hero!) hunted for venous access and tried to diminish her pain and make her last five minutes on earth as personal as it could be or at least less horrendous. I consider that young distracted woman a model of dignity and heartbreakingly lost potential. I still see the accident vividly and hear the gutteral screams, the sobbing and times of awful quiet. Irony drips from every molecule of her torn body. She cut herself off from the world electronically as we all wish we could some days but on this day it worked too well and in her last breath, her phone played its last request instead of the voices of those she craved. We tried to find pictures of koalas to distract her for a wretched moment and it is so sad what passes for comforting a young woman who was full of life that morning and likely for another 60 years. If we were to assign fault it would fall to squarely on her. We’ve all got to keep an eye out because we can’t un-ring that bell. Save just one by going handsfree and it’s my deep hope that you’ll never see, hear and smell all that. What I can do is speak briefly for her. |
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20 August 2019, 11:12 PM | #33 |
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20 August 2019, 11:19 PM | #34 |
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People nowdays need validations and they get it usually from Facebook likes!
But, shaming the owner of the watch and car in a public forum doesn’t make us any better. Best thing to do is to private message the person amd reminded that it is too dangerous Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
20 August 2019, 11:30 PM | #35 |
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For the love of God please stop doing this. I commute on a motorcycle and the number of cagers I see drifting over their line due to phoning is staggering. And please don't take them at traffic lights either. I'm tired of honking at people that the light has turned green while they're doing who knows what on that damn phone.
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20 August 2019, 11:35 PM | #36 |
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I use the setting that disables calls, messaging, etc. while I'm driving. I don't even want to be tempted. Nothing is so important that it can't wait.
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20 August 2019, 11:42 PM | #37 |
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My state just passed a "hand free" cell phone law. I think it's a great step forward. Compliance varies of course, and a lot of citations have been issued. Driving is serious business.
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21 August 2019, 12:08 AM | #38 |
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21 August 2019, 12:10 AM | #39 |
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21 August 2019, 12:59 AM | #40 |
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It's a good point the OP brought up. The reality is that in many cases the photos were taken, and as a result, the law was broken.
Essentially it is a photo of a "crime". I know Police have gone after people for posting videos of then speeding, etc. If they could, they would probably do the same here. The same photo can be taken while parked. |
21 August 2019, 01:14 AM | #41 |
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It's exceptionally douchy
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21 August 2019, 01:33 AM | #42 |
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If anyone saw me taking a photo of my watch whilst sat at the wheel of my car - moving or stationary - they'd think I'd lost it too (including me).
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21 August 2019, 01:40 AM | #43 |
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It’s absurd that there are people defending distracted driving in public roadways. Do it on a track and endanger yourself, never endanger innocent bystanders. Alternatively, do it while parked.
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21 August 2019, 02:01 AM | #44 |
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TRF seems ok with it 245k views, not trying to provoke the mods to be clear and not all are in motion
https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=361499 |
21 August 2019, 02:16 AM | #45 |
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To sit in the backseat and take a pic over your shoulder?
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21 August 2019, 02:23 AM | #46 |
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21 August 2019, 03:55 AM | #47 |
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I would never take pleasure in someone’s misfortune but I bet many people would laugh if they heard a man was in an accident because he was taking a picture of his Rolex while driving.
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21 August 2019, 04:02 AM | #48 |
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A sobering question - is a pic of your Rolex taken driving at speed really worth it?
Yeah, but pictures taken while driving are soooo pretty
My passenger even had hold my beer! Just kidding... |
21 August 2019, 05:03 AM | #49 |
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21 August 2019, 05:11 AM | #50 |
This thread looks remarkably familiar. Is this Unfamiliar_Moon from the Omega Forum?
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21 August 2019, 05:25 AM | #51 |
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There will always be people who can only think of themselves in every moment of their existence.
It's stupid and reckless. Blame social media. It relates to a relatively small group of people though. Cell phone use while driving is a much bigger issue. I see countless drivers on the road every day looking at their phones. If it were up to me, license suspension on first offense for cell phone use while driving.
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21 August 2019, 05:51 AM | #52 | |
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I was generally in agreement with the post until I saw this kind of comment. |
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21 August 2019, 05:54 AM | #53 |
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21 August 2019, 06:29 AM | #54 |
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I prefer to take pics while my pilot is on duty
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21 August 2019, 06:36 AM | #55 | |
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21 August 2019, 06:46 AM | #56 |
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When I added a picture to the steering wheel thread, it never even occurred to me to take the picture while actually driving!
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21 August 2019, 06:59 AM | #57 |
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A pic of a watch taken by the driver while driving at speed is worth it, in the sense that this increases the chances of them being prosecuted and sanctioned.
Apart from the unnecessary expense of the carnage that might be caused by being so distracted (guess who pays for clearing that up), it's the gratuitous disregard for the safety of other people which appals me the most. This behaviour is indefensible. If I'm driving and one of these idiots collect me and kills me on their way to an accident, or even avoids one while flattening me in the process, which of you who thinks this kind of behaviour is OK, understandable or no big deal in the grand scheme, would like to explain this to my wife, my children, my grandchildren, my friends, etc... In England, a woman who in December 2017, took a 30 second film of her toddler while driving and posted it on Facebook was given a 12-month driving ban and sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. I think it's essential that these idiots post their photos up. If it gets just one of them off the road it might save a life. It might save yours. It's that simple. |
21 August 2019, 09:43 AM | #58 |
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A sobering question - is a pic of your Rolex taken driving at speed really worth it?
Since last January, Ontario (Canada) drivers caught with a cell phone in hand while driving face 1000$ fine and three day DL suspension. Get caught a second time...2000$ and 7 day suspension. Stupid enough to do it a third time and it’s 3000$ fine and 30 day suspension. :).
Novice drivers get it a lot worse by completely loosing their DL by third offense Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
23 August 2019, 07:28 AM | #59 |
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I've been "dying" to add to this thread...just look at that speedometer! (not to be confused with a Speedmaster).
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23 August 2019, 07:30 AM | #60 |
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This would be pretty easy even from a belted backseat passenger with a selfie stick...
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