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Honolulu, Hawaii police will begin to write tickets for people caught using their phones or other electronic devices while crossing at a crosswalk:
Police in Honolulu will begin writing tickets for people who get distracted by their cellphones while walking in a cross walk Wednesday. Honolulu is the first major city in the country to pass such a law, citing a high rate of pedestrians being hit in crosswalks.
"Starting today, texting while walking in a cross walk can get you a ticket," Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman reports for our Newscast unit. "In fact, a downward glance at a screen of any kind will cost you—a phone, a tablet, a video game."
Under the new law, the only legal reason for a pedestrian to use a cellphone while crossing a street or highway would be to call 911 to report an emergency.
Minimum fines for breaking the new law start at $15; for repeat offenders, the penalty ranges from $75 to $99. Higher rates — up to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second, and $500 for a third — had been considered earlier this year.
Also at the City and County of Honolulu. Bill 6 (2017).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Wednesday October 25 2017, @09:01PM (3 children)
A cop in chicago told me that they use the cell or belt laws to stop people when they believe they'll find something else by looking at the vehicle/license.
It's a legal justification to stop someone who doesn't look quite right (insert your own profiling bias here).
If you turn out to be clean and polite, you're typically not worth the paperwork and get a warning.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 25 2017, @10:14PM (2 children)
Except for yours truly wanting to know when the light rail started running again in the morning.
A patrol car suddenly materialized out of nowhere.
"I looked both ways!" failed to satisfy.
One of the cops requested my ID. I gave them an expired passport. "Do you have a state issued ID?" "No." so they didn't get my home address. I was telling the truth.
A couple of minutes later that same cop accused me of failing to register as a sex offender. That one flummoxed me. "Ma'am, I've never even been _accused_ of a sex crime!"
that seemed to satisfy her, but I looked into it later: there was once another Michael David Crawford who resided in Washington state. He was a registered sex offender who did time in Walla Walla commencing in 2005.
In 2012, he put on a homemade bullet proof vest - sort of anyway - and a helmet that had metal plates taped to it. He then stole a car, led the Lakewood police in a high speed chase, crashed the car then fired a pistol at a cop.
Hilarity ensued.
I speculate he's the reason I had no luck finding a job for five years.
He left behind a child and a mother.
There just has to be some reason he did that, but doubtlessly history will never know.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by bob_super on Wednesday October 25 2017, @10:17PM (1 child)
Other thing that helps when looking for a job: the ability to stay on topic.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 26 2017, @12:52AM
It's more commonly regarded as a symptoms of Bipolar Mania.
Spend much time talking to me in meatspace and my ideas will fly all over Creation.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]