What would you do with this?

[AbbieCadabra]

I really enjoy tooting at some of them when I'm out in my fire brigade van which is marked up with reflective stripes etc and looks a bit like a police vehicle - the dimwits are usually so engrossed in their conversations that when I toot and they see the markings on the van , they assume it is the police and the phone is dropped along with a look of horror on their faces . Great fun .

i'm liking your style! well done

 

[lynall]

DRUK - completely agree. The penalty is no deterrent obviously or so may would not be doing this still. I'm amazed quite frankly - they also seem to think they are in the right and look at you as if you are mad for complaining.

What beats me is it tends to be the expensive car drivers that still do this. Surely if they can drive around in £50K + cars they can afford £100 for a parrot (no puns required!) or £30 for a bluetooth headset..!!

The other big culprit seems to be females at shops or school runs. If only they realised how dangerous it could be with little johnny n the car as well.!!

Ive said this a few times before if they can afford a nice car spend a little bit more and get a proper phone kit tight t#ats.



Lynall

 

[HR17]

I see this everyday. More often than not its women too.

A recent incident involved a bitch on the phone driving though a give way just missing me - not even a look in my direction. Emergency brake and toot on the horn avoided a collision and probably wasn't noticed by her. Conveniently she and I were going to the same supermarket, so I tooted her and made the phone gensture in the car park while she was still talking on it.

A few minutes later, I'm in said supermarket when I get an agonising, searing pain in the back of my heel. I yelp in pain and turn around to find the same bitch, still talking on her phone, having driven her trolly into me. She seemed too engrossed in her conversation to realise until every foul four letter word I know was used against her. I made a point of being audable in front of other people and caused her some major embarrassment, pointing out that she couldn't even drive a trolley let alone a car while gossiping to her mate.

She looked quite tearful when I'd finished, and I got great satisfaction out if it. Job done in my book.

 

[st4]

Had she broken down?

Perhaps the accelerator failed.....

 

[rogkildare]

Result!

Switch your mobile phone to video facility and film the number plate of the offending vehicle then move up the vehicle to her on the phone, smile and pass it to the police.

 

[st4]

Switch your mobile phone to video facility and film the number plate of the offending vehicle then move up the vehicle to her on the phone, smile and pass it to the police.

And get yourself knicked as you've been using your phone whilst in charge of a motor vehicle.

 

[MangoMan]

I didn't read all of these, because it just annoys me too much; all I hear is this should be done, that should be done - unless it's YOU of course. You want all these draconian measures, but only when and if it suits you!

Whats that - Trying to remove the splinter from someones eye when you can't see the log in yours.....

Sorry, no in actual fact I'm not sorry - Get over it!.......................

 

[DJC013]

Hello, take the vehicle details including the reg. number, and then report to the local police as soon as you get home, chances are she has done the same before ! Regards Damian.

 

[rogkildare]

And get yourself knicked as you've been using your phone whilst in charge of a motor vehicle.

I mean't you should leave your car and use your camera phone not stay in your car and move. I should have been more clear sorry.

 

[stevesey]

No one seems to have picked up on the fact that she wasn't actually moving - could it be that she was so stupid as to think this was an acceptable place (right had lane) to pull over and take/make a call.

Would explain why she got upset - in her book she had done the right thing and was then getting tooted.

 

[Druk]

No one seems to have picked up on the fact that she wasn't actually moving - could it be that she was so stupid as to think this was an acceptable place (right had lane) to pull over and take/make a call.

Would explain why she got upset - in her book she had done the right thing and was then getting tooted.

I think that's exactly the case, and the point I was making in the OP.



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[219]

I see this everyday. More often than not its women too.

A recent incident involved a bitch on the phone driving though a give way just missing me - not even a look in my direction. Emergency brake and toot on the horn avoided a collision and probably wasn't noticed by her. Conveniently she and I were going to the same supermarket, so I tooted her and made the phone gensture in the car park while she was still talking on it.

A few minutes later, I'm in said supermarket when I get an agonising, searing pain in the back of my heel. I yelp in pain and turn around to find the same bitch, still talking on her phone, having driven her trolly into me. She seemed too engrossed in her conversation to realise until every foul four letter word I know was used against her. I made a point of being audable in front of other people and caused her some major embarrassment, pointing out that she couldn't even drive a trolley let alone a car while gossiping to her mate.

She looked quite tearful when I'd finished, and I got great satisfaction out if it. Job done in my book.

A good job very well done in mine !

 

[matt17081]

try doing what i ALWAYS do when taxi's stop in the middle of a road blocking it off, i just sit there with my hand constantly on the horn, they seem to get the message reasonably quickly, especially as people start looking at then and shaking their heads

 

[Swiss Toni]

She really had a bad day then.

1. Broke down at a roundabout and got abuse whilst calling for help.

2. Lost her glasses whilst pushing her car to the side of the road and then managed to bump her supermarket trolley in to some poor chap.

3. Chap turned out to be one of those foul mouthed hoodie types she has read about in the Daily Mail - managed to get through the experience before bursting into tears of laughter, having noticed his zip was undone.....

 

[br0ke]

You could have crashed into her and then claimed she reversed into you.

Get the police involved and they request the phone records and hey presto - all the stone chips at the front of your car magically disappear.

 

[219]

The sort of person who behaves as described in the original post is the sort of person who very well may not be insured .

 

[kwakdonut]

The sort of person who behaves as described in the original post is the sort of person who very well may not be insured .

.....and a boyfriend with homicidal tendencies to.....

 

[mykulmerc]

The problem is that a £30 non-endorsable penalty is no deterrent.

The only solution is to give the offender a choice and immediately seize either the car or the phone. Obviously they can't be trusted with both!

NormanC

Please leave her with the phone...she obviously knows how to operate that..

 

[crockers]

Being obliged to declare the conviction to your insurer and them bumping up your premium because you have demonstrated that you are a greater risk woud be a further deterrent .

My understanding is that you have to report all endorseable convictions to your insurer. Failure to do so COULD render your car uninsured for all bar RTA coverage.

 

[Zneb]

True Story;

My Father-in-law commuted to London in the days of slam doors with sliding windows and before quiet carriages. On one hot 'n' sticky journey home the chap opposite him, city trader type, was carrying out a very loud conversation on his phone. My FiL asked him to to be a bit quieter, and the guy ignored him. He asked him again, "Please be quiet the rest of us don't wish to take part in your conversation" or something similar and the guy flicked the "V's" at him and carried on talking. So my FiL grabbed the phone and threw it out the partially open window. The chap started to go nuts but was drowned out by the spontaneous round of applause my FiL received. The trader type got up and changed carriages. FiL never heard about it ever again even despite commuting for several more years on that train.
Not suggesting for one mo that this sort of behavoiur is to be condoned but, well, makes you think...