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Tony Rokins
Reading, Berkshire,
United Kingdom
Posts: 152
Daytona 955i (02)
15 May 2008 13:04 |
On the way home from work the other night on the 'Tona, I had to pull up at a set of lights. I'd been filtering and so was between 2 cars.
The car on my r/h side was a newish, dark coloured MX5 with the top down. I looked down into the leather upolstered interior to see a shapely pair of tanned legs. My eyes followed the leg up the body, to see a very attractive blond girl sitting in the drivers seat.
As I was enjoying view, she reached for her hand held mobile phone. I said "excuse me, but you know you're commiting a motoring offence by using your phone don't you? "Sod off!" came back the reply. O.K, I though, so I waited utill she was talking into the phone and tweeked the loud lever......
Revenge, almost as sweet as the view......
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Rob BBTB
Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Posts: 22,944
Premier Member
Sprint ST (05->)
15 May 2008 13:07 |
I do like the summer.
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ST
Surrey/Berks/Hants,
United Kingdom
Posts: 13,524
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (02-04)
15 May 2008 13:08 |
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Berlin84
Dresden, Sachsen,
Germany
Posts: 13,659
Premier Member
Sprint RS (02-05)
15 May 2008 13:13 |
agreed.............
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Homertrix
South Bucks,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,796
Premier Member
Daytona T595 (97-98)
15 May 2008 14:35 |
If I'm overtaking someone and see them on the phone I usually pull in front and slow down to about half the speed limit until they put it down. Even managed to set off a marital tiff (women driving on phone, bloke starts to have a go to put phone down - he must have been late for something!)
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Chris Line
Cowes,Isle of Wight.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,272
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (99-01)
15 May 2008 15:16 |
Good on you Homer!
I put £10 on my "Mobile" last year - I had to renew it last week - bloody expensive idea in my book!
My phone is for ME - I recieve phone calls from people who need to talk to me, I don't send texts etc..........
It's switched OFF more than it's ON!
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maximus vegetatorus
sussex,
United Kingdom
Posts: 7,037
Premier Member
Tiger 1050 (07->)
15 May 2008 15:20 |
"Sod off!" came back the reply
you didn't pull then
chris, you sound more like fret every day 
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Timtrumpet
Oxford,
United Kingdom
Posts: 96
Daytona 955i (04->)
15 May 2008 15:20 |
Pulled up next to a girl talking on her mobile yesterday morning whilst sitting at lights, I didn't say or do anything other than stare at her, she looked at me, went all sheepish, switched it off and put it down sharpish.
Made me smile
They know it's wrong yet they still do it
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ST
Surrey/Berks/Hants,
United Kingdom
Posts: 13,524
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (02-04)
15 May 2008 15:28 |
Mikey T:
chris, you sound more like fret every day |
Its those 'ampshire roots ..... 
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Narna
Not hiding from Sue,
United Kingdom
Posts: 17,399
Premier Member
Daytona T595 (97-98)
15 May 2008 15:45 |
The Nissan Notes I have on fleet all have Bluetooth fitted as standard, can't see why other manufacturers don't do the same...
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Berlin84
Dresden, Sachsen,
Germany
Posts: 13,659
Premier Member
Sprint RS (02-05)
15 May 2008 15:46 |
they do; Fiat Group do it on all their cars too............
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maximus vegetatorus
sussex,
United Kingdom
Posts: 7,037
Premier Member
Tiger 1050 (07->)
15 May 2008 15:47 |
as if people from hampshire or suffolk will have bluetooth phones
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ST
Surrey/Berks/Hants,
United Kingdom
Posts: 13,524
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (02-04)
15 May 2008 15:50 |
sigh ...... dunno why I bovva .....
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maximus vegetatorus
sussex,
United Kingdom
Posts: 7,037
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Tiger 1050 (07->)
15 May 2008 15:52 |
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Chris Line
Cowes,Isle of Wight.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,272
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (99-01)
15 May 2008 17:05 |
Hampshire roots???
Who has roots in England then - not me!!
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Fret.
South.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 37,101
Premier Member
Tiger 1050 (07->)
15 May 2008 18:46 |
I'm from London, so that ain't me not nor nyvah. I've go one of those expensive mobile things as well. I put a tenner on in December, still got £6.50 left.
I get a few twats park in the cycle/bus lane to answer their phones. They soon put it down when their mirrors fall off.
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Chris Line
Cowes,Isle of Wight.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,272
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Speed Triple 955i (99-01)
15 May 2008 18:52 |
Hi Bro!
Neither from Hampshire - and both use the phones "Properly!!"
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ST
Surrey/Berks/Hants,
United Kingdom
Posts: 13,524
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (02-04)
15 May 2008 19:04 |
HL&S
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Flashster
***ECOSSE***,
United Kingdom
Posts: 19,901
Premier Member
Enthusiast
15 May 2008 20:25 |
Just keep a Police cap in the car and put it on when you pull alongside someone on the phone................Dropped like a hot potato.............................
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nigeywigey
suffolk,
United Kingdom
Posts: 236
Daytona T595 (97-98)
15 May 2008 21:09 |
you can always suss the artic drivers on their phones as they cannot keep a straight line....kings of the road though hey!bottles of piss being thrown with the other hand...nice.
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Trumpy
Lowton,
United Kingdom
Posts: 97
Daytona T595 (97-98)
15 May 2008 21:43 |
Why is it more often the drivers of the most expensive cars that use their phone whilst driving? When you've spent 80k on your new Merc what difference is a few extra quid to stop you playing pinball with kids playing near the road!!
I fnuckin hate them all... it infuriates me to see people risking the lives of themselves and those around them just to tell the wife to put the tea on...
And HGV drivers.... don't get me started!! 40 tonnes of steel driven by an overweight cnut with a mobile in one hand and a pie in the other!! Do these guys ever drive under the 30mph speed limit!!
(Christ, I sound like my dad!!)
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Jason B
Colchester,
United Kingdom
Posts: 150
Daytona 955i (02CE, 03)
15 May 2008 22:24 |
Ha! Yesterday morning a girl in our office got pulled by a police car just outside our office as she arrived for work. She is notorious for having a mobile  glued to her ear. On the spot fine - 3 points and £60.
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Chris Line
Cowes,Isle of Wight.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,272
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (99-01)
15 May 2008 22:30 |
There is a bloke at work who has to leave his Mobile phone at Security, he was bollocked for being on it most of the time?
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 Tonto (part deux)
Closer than most,
United Kingdom
Posts: 6,174
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (99-01)
15 May 2008 22:51 |
I'm thinking of getting a new reg plate done with "Get off your Mobile you TWAT " written across the bottom
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SteveF
Portsmouth,
United Kingdom
Posts: 241
Tiger (01-06)
16 May 2008 10:14 |
Get an ex plod hi-viz, make the phone sign with your fingers and shake your head at them - LOL -
Or catch a driving instructor on the phone, and Email the company
What really made me cross was someone who thought that outside of her car was an ashtray - and flicking fags out the window with me passing was ok - Grrrr...
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Chizzle d'Chizzledom
Somewhere quite nice,
United Kingdom
Posts: 6,079
Premier Member
Speed Triple (05->)
16 May 2008 10:30 |
I go past them and make the fuckers drive real slow until they put it down.
Only the other night in Oakham ... a guy in a Transit on the phone at the roundabout in the middle of town .... I come across the island very slowly lookng directly at him and my hand on the horn ... he puts the phone down and follows me, getting right up behind the car ... so I slow down almost to a crawl. He eventually got the message and pulled back to a more respectable distance.
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Angry Harri
Wiltshire,
United Kingdom
Posts: 27,398
Premier Member
Speed Triple (95-96)
16 May 2008 11:17 |
People Using the Phone While Driving........
It's a fucking disease I tell yer 
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~Bluelabel~
The Shades, Ongar,
United Kingdom
Posts: 32,681
Premier Member
Thunderbird Sport (98-00)
16 May 2008 11:24 |
On Wednesday afternoon I was driving to work and there was a hold up on the Moat house Roundabout in Harlow..... Some complete twat had stopped his car on the second exit and was taking a call on his mobile.... Thats just plain feckin' ridiculous
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Fret.
South.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 37,101
Premier Member
Tiger 1050 (07->)
16 May 2008 11:47 |
I ignore my phone. If it's urgent, then they'll ring me back.
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Gordon MacBean
SE London,
United Kingdom
Posts: 111
Sprint RS (02-05)
16 May 2008 11:54 |
What phone. I'm deaf so don't have one (well I do, for texting, when I can find the blessed thing). I had fun watching some police officers on bikes tapping on windows as they pulled alongside drivers yakking away. Hot potato being dropping springs to mind...! One got a particularly good bollocking as she damn near had him off his bike by changing lanes without indicating or looking!
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Strumpet
Chippenham UK,
United Kingdom
Posts: 249
Enthusiast
16 May 2008 13:43 |
I subscribe to the Jeremy Clarkson perspective on all this.
I think they should repeal the law, but include a bit in the driving test where you have to steer through some cones while holding a conversation on a mobile in one hand, hold a full, open coke can in the other, and steer with your knees. Those that can't do it don't get a licence. 
I don't use a hand held in the car any more, as I don't want the fine & points, but I am more than capable of driving one handed and holding a conversation at the same time. I speak with passengers in the car and often only have one hand on the wheel. It's all far less brain power than carving through a set of bends on a bike which, assuming you're over the speed limit, is also illegal and potentially dangerous to others.
It's not mobile phones that are the problem it's the useless bloody drivers who can't drive worth a damn anyway being further distracted by trying to do something else. It's the same whether they're using a phone, lighting a cigarette, changing the CD or eating.
I lived in South Africa for 6 years after the advent of the mobile, and used it in the car all the time. Never had a close encounter once... well not while on the phone anyway. Used it here too until the law changed.
My pet hate is not phone users, it's those self righteous twats in their cars who won't go over 40 on the open road, block the outside lane at a traffic light and then react so slowly that the tractor in the inside lane gets away first (happened to me this morning!) and insist on doing exactly 25 mph in 30 limits. I could drive better with the mobile and the coke can...
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Fret.
South.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 37,101
Premier Member
Tiger 1050 (07->)
16 May 2008 13:57 |
Is this the same JEREMY CLARKSON that was photographed in his Merecedes whilst on the hand held phone a couple of months back?
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Chizzle d'Chizzledom
Somewhere quite nice,
United Kingdom
Posts: 6,079
Premier Member
Speed Triple (05->)
16 May 2008 14:00 |
I was one of those who used to do 54,000 miles per annum, sandwich/crisps/KFC Zinger (go large), drink, phone - all at the same time ... got quite adept at the old balancing act. I also realise now that it was quite a prattish thing to do. Whatever you think, attention is diverted.
For those who are driving anything half decent there is no excuse for not having a decent car kit fitted ... you'd be amazed at how many cars we deliver without hand held kits ever to be installed even now, and to drivers who are doing 20k+ business miles pa.
As Berlin said FIAT fit it to a lot of their vehicles (it's called 'Blue and Me') - even my wifes new FIAT 500 will have it.
SAT NAV's are the new enemy ....
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Fret.
South.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 37,101
Premier Member
Tiger 1050 (07->)
16 May 2008 14:03 |
Don't start me off on chav-navs and tv's in cars!!!!
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Strumpet
Chippenham UK,
United Kingdom
Posts: 249
Enthusiast
16 May 2008 14:06 |
Fret:
Is this the same JEREMY CLARKSON that was photographed in his Merecedes whilst on the hand held phone a couple of months back? |
"It wasn't a mobile it was an Ipod"
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Blizzard
Coventry,
United Kingdom
Posts: 22,880
Premier Member
Daytona 955i (04->)
16 May 2008 17:53 |
Studies have shown that it's not the talking that's the problem it that your brain works differently when your one the phone as you are trying to picture who you are talking to.
Apparently the only people who can phone and drive are airline pilots. I would guess it's that they are used to talking to someone who isn't there
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Suffolk Punch
The Girthmaster....,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,512
Premier Member
Daytona T595 (97-98)
16 May 2008 18:17 |
Nothing wrong with Sat Navs. It`s the twats who dont know how to use them properly. I`m a safer driver since I`ve got one. No more glancing down at a map on the passenger seat at 70 mph, no more changing lanes at the last minute `cos I dont know where I`m going. I can make all my manoevres well in time without causing other road users grief. You dont need to glane at the screen any more than you do your rev counter or speedo and coupled with the aural instructions....jobs a good `un.
Trouble is that a lot of bells out there dont know how to use one properly
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Riggsy
Coventry,
United Kingdom
Posts: 15,700
Premier Member
Daytona 955i (02)
16 May 2008 18:29 |
Well said "Strumpet"
I was thinking how to post the same without seeming to promote mobiles when driving.
Mobiles are a symptom, the cause is shit driving, and shit awareness of whats around you. As has been stated, mobiles will be substituted with a new "Symptom", namely Sat Nav's soon  
Unfortunately, we are "gifted" in the sense that we have to be aware of EVERYTHING around us 100% of the time. People who had never ridden cannot comprehend the amount of information they are missing and think we are being "over reactive".
(Well they are when I make them pull up at the side of the road and explain themselves  )
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AC
Northants,
United Kingdom
Posts: 1,634
Premier Member
Sprint ST (99-01)
16 May 2008 18:48 |
If the studies Bilzzard is referring to are the ones I saw featured on a TV program (and the reference to airline pilots makes me think they are) they consisted of putting people in a driving simulator and asking them increasingly difficult mental arithmetic problems. As the problems got harder their driving got worse. As stated, airline pilots, who do that sort of thing for a living and are also used to simulators, were quite good at it. The only thing it 'proved' is that you shouldn't go driving with maths teachers.
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Chris Line
Cowes,Isle of Wight.,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,272
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Speed Triple 955i (99-01)
16 May 2008 19:18 |
Don't Aircraft have something called "Auto Pilot?"
Damned sure cars don't!
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