LOL– They’ve Done It Again!
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Not long ago, I heard this rumor that the wheel-spinners on the Waste-chester County Board of Legislators wanted to push through a law that would prohibit motorists from smoking in cars with children passengers. Or maybe the idea was being floated by County Excessitive Andy Spano.
Doesn’t matter where it came from, or who thought it up.
It seemed like the perfect legislative act, though, for a county whose legislators apparently have nothing better to do than dream up new and condescending ways to rule and regulate our work-a-day lives. Well, the smoking law hasn’t happened…not yet, anyway.
But the Nanny State did come up with another one. The new law the board passed the other night prohibits motorists from text-messaging. Now, let’s be clear: Anybody bopping down, say, the Hutchinson River Parkway with one hand on the wheel while the other hand taps out coded conversations, deserves a smack in the head.
But I fail to see how the cops are going to enforce this. And get this, text messagers, the law won’t even take effect for another six months. Go nuts…LOL.
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on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm by Phil Reisman.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
This one actually makes sense. I just don’t get why it takes two laws to stop people from using their cell phones in their cars without a hands free device. If you use a cell phone in your car without a hands free device, you deserve a ticket!
Just another example of the do-nothing county dems passing a stupid, meaningless law and failing to address the real issues that face taxpayers.
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