Anyone else notice this?
- Eddie The WOP
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Sean Summerfield mentioned this in the latest NZ Autocar magazine, but worth a revisit, me thinks.
Okay, day in and day out, I trudge (with great enjoyment) on my scooter from Sandringham to where ever my current contract sits (the Airport at the mo). I see a lot of driving, both good and bad, and some frankly surprising behaviour.
The latest development is what can best be described as "fiddling" in the crotch area of drivers. I see many a driver, looking down in earnest (not at the road) and madly "fiddling" with one or even BOTH hands in their laps!! It does appear rather inappropriate and upon further investigation, IT SURE IS!!
They are secretly TEXTING!!!
You see, with the governments (frankly brilliant) new cellphone rules, there appear to be three distinct new camps. There are the new, reformed "Blue toothers" (or those that simply don't), the blatant dis-regarders and the new, secret, crotch fiddlers. So the Gov have inadvertently created a new, more dangerous class of criminal.
SCARY!!! (and entirely true). See if you can spot any.
Its much trickier on a scoot
Perhaps using gaffer tape to atach the mobile to the indicator button mount would work?
Watch out for "lane drift" as the gap between the rows of slow moving motorway traffic narrow unexpectedly. Texting is usually the case although I did see one lady applying make up using the rear mirror. I am not sure if she saw my Watch out for Bikes sign or not....