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From: Titus McHunt on 16 Aug 2006 14:26 "Ivor Jones" <ivor(a)despammed.invalid> wrote in message >> I have yet to meet anyone who has stopped using their >> mobile whilst driving. I imagine the majority here do >> too, if they are honest. > > I use mine, but only when it's in a handsfree car kit (Nokia > 6310i/CARK-91) I wear a Bluetooth earpiece in each ear and I have a boom mic extending across the wheel, plus a blue light on the roof. I carry a baseball bat in the boot, have a shaven head and tatoos on my knuckles. And I help my landlady carry out her garbage.
From: Ivor Jones on 16 Aug 2006 14:26 "David Taylor" <davidt-news(a)yadt.co.uk> wrote in message news:slrnee3bjl.s06.davidt-news(a)outcold.yadt.co.uk > On 2006-08-15, R. Mark Clayton > <nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > > > > Well they could always start by issuing themselves with > > FPN's whenever they use their push to talk half duplex > > personal radios while driving and it isn't an emergency > > - but oops I forgot it is one law for them and another > > law for the rest of us see:- > > Er, no. As you quoted below it is the same law for them > and us. > > It is entirely legal for a police officer to use a > two-way radio whilst driving, just as it is entirely > legal for _you_ to use a two-way radio whilst driving. Provided that (a) it is one for which you hold a licence or (b) a 446MHz unlicenced radio. BTW I use a handsfree kit for my amateur radio as well as my phone. Ivor
From: Ivor Jones on 16 Aug 2006 14:29 "Steve" <no(a)way.com> wrote in message news:%ppEg.50277$Ca.27448(a)fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk [snip] > Police dont use 2 way radios and so are covered by the > regulations. 2-way radios are so defined by the name, > they send and recieve data/voice between 2 radios, ie the > ones you buy for your kids while out camping. Que..? Ivor
From: PC Paul on 16 Aug 2006 15:22 JNugent wrote: > PM wrote: >> But was she using one? If not, why would she say >> >> "I think it must be (someone following me home) as that's the only >> way they would find out where you live." >> >> Following her home from where? From where she used (someone else's) >> mobile while driving? Otherwise why not assume it's a random attack >> on a parked car? > > The part: "(following me home)" looks like an context insertion by the > writer of the article, rather than necessarily being what the victim > said, otherwise it could simply have been rendered as: > > "I think it must be someone who followed me home as that's the only > way they would find out where I live" (or words to exactly the same > effect) without the need for brackets. Damn clever inserting it into the video I saw of her being interviewed. These journo's, eh?
From: Simon Finnigan on 16 Aug 2006 15:33
uknewsfan wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:06:45 GMT, "burt" > <burtthebike(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > I have yet to meet anyone who has stopped using their mobile whilst > driving. I imagine the majority here do too, if they are honest. You obviously know idiots. I do not, have not and will not use my mobile when driving. Hands free kits are IMHO an appalling idea - they do not remove the distraction of trying to hear a poor quality call with drop out (which is according to a few studies the main reason mobile phones distract drivers, not the actual conversation). A hands free kit gives a driver the impression that they are being sensible and safe and paying full attention to the road, which is still not the case. If a call is important, it`s important enough either for me to wait for the next services (for gods sake, don`t stop on the hard shoulder to take a phone call - it`s not exactly the safest place in the world is it?) or for a caller to leave me a voicemail, which I`ll get at the next services. |