I wouldn't go so far as to say that Child Protective Services needs to get involved, but this woman does have a rather peculiar sense of rationale..

Too bad I drove out of town yesterday (evening) because  I didn't get to see the phenomena of seeing people drive without a cell phone in hand.  I used to sit at lights watching people turn left in front of me and marvel at how many were on the phone.  It will be strange indeed.  :-)

Another passing era.  Sigh.

Yeah, she is an idiot. Scarier, she's not the only one.

I have always been angered by those talking on cell phones while driving. It really annoyed me to see some guy at a light yesterday gabbing away on his cell phone. It makes me think that this law against hand-held cell phones while driving will do very little to curb this bad habit.

Wait until they get caught, ghost. After a few citations, they'll change their ways.

The fatty in the video should get two tickets, not unlike an airline charging for two seats.

i drove three miles on Ming last evening and counted 4 people with their phone to their ear and one reading a map.  Some people are just stupid...

I'm going to start writing down the license numbers and the description of the car and driver whenever I see them talking on their cell phone and posting them online. It won't change anything, but it'll still be fun.

JBS, I drive a BMW 525i, personalized plate of BITEME. You'll have to get my description on your own. :)

I have a Bluetooth devise for my phone and I use it.  But the times that I forget it, or the battery isn't charged, I don't answer my phone while driving.  It amazes me just how many people think this is rude.  I tell them the cell phone is for my convenience, not theirs. 

 The fines for this citation is a joke they should have been much higher. Alot of people will take their chances.

She shouldn't even be driving a car. The fat slob should be walking to take off the 75 extra pounds she is lugging around.

soltini - that's completely uncalled for.

FSG, one of the reasons that people yak on their cell phones when driving is because they think it makes them look "cool." Adults, especially those with children, who need to look "cool" to a bunch of total strangers more often than not are trying to make up for inadequacies elsewhere in their lives; in this woman's case, she probably sees herself in the mirror after taking a shower, thinks "I'm just a fat sack of [bleep]," and tries to compensate for it by looking "cool" yakking on her cell phone, wearing her reflecto shades and talking in a "SoCal Girl" accent. Didn't work, obviously.

OB, my next-door neighbor in Hanford had BHAD BOY on his license plate and "Whatcha gonna do when I come for you" on the frame. He was with the gang unit of the Hanford PD; he made Sergeant just before I moved. He was always friendly and his wife was a babe.

I wanted a license plate that said "HEY MOFO", but my sister said they wouldn't give that to me.

I have always found that those in LE who openly advertise that they are in LE are trying to make up for some inadequacy, if you get my point. Maybe BHAD BOY is in that category. However, tell me more about his babe wife.... LOL.

JBS - that's a rather broad generalization. 

When I worked in LA during the week and commuted here on the weekends for 2 months, the first thing I did when I got on the 405 was call one of my friends from back east, not because I wanted to look "cool" but because it honestly kept me from going insane as I spent 2 hours inching forward in Friday traffic.

When I'm on the phone now while driving, it's usually business related, and if it's not, it's usually an important personal call. 

Unlike the girl in the video, though, I'm complying with the hands free law, because I do notice a difference, and while I do tend to be a better driver than many, I'm definitely not perfect.

OB -- Go to your new Sheriff's website and see what you think

http://www.kernsheriff.com/...

Just general impression...................

Anyone?

OB, his wife was tremendous. When my dad died, she came over and talked to me one day just as I had gotten into my truck. She was wearing one of those little undershirts ("wife-beaters" some guys call them) with nothing on underneath. Man, I slobbered so much on the steering wheel that it was hard to turn for several miles.

He didn't seem inadequate, OB. He was 6' and 200 lbs. and strong, and didn't act all Joe Friday like some of the cops who barely squeaked by the psych exam do. He had a nice metal-flake green F150 with alloy wheels. His little boy was a treasure. He'd come over and ask me all kinds of questions about anything and everything (my mom said that I did the exact same thing at his age). 

My mom really liked his wife. She said that it's not easy being a cop's wife sometimes (Mom would know, since Dad was in LE for 15 years). 

And NO, I'm not giving you their address so you can go over and ogle his wife. It's called selfishness.... 

Well OB, etc........... since no one else will bite (on new Kern Sheriff's website) I guess this gizzled old cowMAN will just have to render a one word response:

BWAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

(I haven't seen such  a  "cowboy" renderin since  Bob Hope in  "Son of Paleface"   ;-)  )

JBS, I'm disappointed in you.  Please explain to me how cell phones have anything to do with weight?   I've seen skinny, fat, and all sizes in between driving recklessly while yapping on the cell phone.  I've seen all manner of adults, be they parents or not, who yap while driving.  I'm personally very much in favor of this rule.  I also happen to be over-weight for reasons beyond my control and my cell phone has been used a grand total of ten minutes since January 1.  Making flippant generalizations about 'fattys' makes you look like a child. 

It's not a generalization about fatties as a whole, it's my assessment on that particular woman's attitude toward the cell phone law. Read the post; it says, "In this woman's case..." Nowhere does it say that all, or even most fat women compensate for feelings of inadequacy by talking on their hand-held cell phones while driving. There were no people of other sizes on the video, were there? Only the fat woman, whose actions my comments were directed toward. Don't be so thin-skinned; it'll make you old before your time.

In my first semester at a community college in 1996, there were certain women in my classes who couldn't have earned an "A" if their lives had depended on it, and they tried to compensate with "cool" by leaving their beepers on ring instead of vibrate (like any normal person would have in that situation), as if having a beeper made them Somebody. Well, I didn't have a beeper, I took four classes, and got four A's. But, then, I wasn't as "cool" as they were.

(I haven't seen such  a  "cowboy" renderin since  Bob Hope in  "Son of Paleface"   ;-)  )

Chico, it's a funny picture - that white shirt would look like that for about fifteen seconds - but if Donny were a real cowpoke, chances are his face would look about twenty years older than it does, especially in this valley.

It's not a generalization about fatties as a whole, it's my assessment on that particular woman's attitude toward the cell phone law...

Well, obviously it's a free country and you can use whatever jargon or descriptions you choose, but it still disappointed me.  That's  not your problem, I suppose. When I see phrases like... "The fatty in the video..." or "are trying to make up for inadequacies elsewhere in their lives; in this woman's case, she probably sees herself in the mirror after taking a shower, thinks "I'm just a fat sack of [bleep],"", I have a hard time seeing how it's relevant or helpful. 

Personally, I don't think leaving your kids in the unrelenting heat and blatantly violating a law because you think you're above it is more damaging to this woman than her weight. 

Chico, I just saw the link you provided. Pretty funny. As far as I know, Chief Rector doesn't ride horses...

Audrey, it gives them a sense of worth, because, for whatever reason, they're not happy in their own skin. I also like solitude, and I've always considered a beeper or a cell phone to be a leash that someone I don't want to talk to can always find me at the other end of. Especially when I have the day off, and want to keep it that way.

I'm with you, Audrey. I become very snippy if I do not have my "down time", as my husband calls it. As for cell phone users, I think it is not so much a "cool" factor as the fear that they will miss something if they turn that phone off or refuse to answer it while driving. So many are married to their jobs these days. Also, I think that a lot of people just never learned to say "no", and think that they are expected to be at everyone's beck and call. They feel obligated to take the call at any minute of the day.

Ghost, I work with people who, all the way to work and all the way home, do nothing but talk and text on their cell phones. I know a woman who lives in Delano and works in Visalia, and she talks and texts the whole way up and back. Employees at my job are constantly running to the restroom to talk or sneaking off to a corner somewhere to text (Loss Prevention always catches them texting via The Eye in the Sky, and they get written up). There are women at work who talk and text all the way to the food court at lunch and keep doing so while they're ordering and waiting for their food, walking back to the store, and during the entire 45 minute meal period. It's not uncommon for their food to get cold because they're too busy texting to eat. These are not all young people; many are in their 30s and 40s.  

OB - I have to wonder about  "the other guy" as well

JBS--Your posts are, as always, practically perfect in every way.

As for Sheriff Gunsmoke--YeeeHaww!

For all my dislike for cell phones, I confess that I don't like not having one with me.   I had a friend whose son rolled his jeep down a hill and was in a coma.  Her sister called me trying to find her but no one knew where she was.  If we had cell phones back then, we would have found her a lot earlier.  I think about that and want to be where I can be reached in an emergency.....but not for chit chat.