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Originally Posted by baddog
You are going by a newspaper report, so you know for fact he was on a handheld device and it wasn't his wife? And you know that he made the 911 call at the same time that he got checked? And you know he was exceeding the speed limit?
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i never stated he was on a handheld, i stated he was on a wireless device. the report stated he was the one making the call.
i also never stated he was on the 911 call when he was brake checked. i stated that by making the call he is distracting himself from the situation at hand. moreover, any 30 something year old with a degree from columbia has the brainwaves to realize that the 911 operator is not going to send out th epolice to save this guy at mile marker 142, no wait, mile marker 143, no,....... so the call is an offensive act, not defensive.
finally, i didn't state i know he was exceeding the speed limit. in fact, what i wrote was an effort to display further that i understand where this guy was coming from. that's why i wrote that he "was probably not going too much over the speed limit" knowing full well that the natural flow of traffic is generally a bit over the speed limit and it is safer to merge with the flow of traffic than not. maybe he wasn't, it really doesn't matter, i'm not trying to suggest he was wreckless, my point was i understand his mindset at the time- sunday drive.
i know you get that.