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Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway

posted by martyb on Friday January 04 2019, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the I^W-we-see-what-you-did-there dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

In April this year drivers will be fined for using mobile phones if caught on the M4 mobile phone use detection system. Fair enough, we have some drongos, like the tool who was caught using both his hands to use his phone while his mate in the passenger seat held the wheel, but, seriously, is a camera system dedicated to detecting mobile use really needed? What's next, fun police?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday January 04 2019, @05:35PM (4 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday January 04 2019, @05:35PM (#782124) Journal

    "We here at the Ministry of Silly Walks would like to remind people that walking and talking are normal things.

    Using a cell phone while goose-stepping into telephone poles is recommended for a nice Sunday stroll, while walk-leaping with a half-term is good for dropping your phone in...TO the sewer drain.

    Yes, leave your car behind and talk all you want on your phone. Why, right now, I am talking on my phone while a beautiful red double-decker bus is pummeling towards m"

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 04 2019, @05:39PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 04 2019, @05:39PM (#782127) Journal

    Poor Gaaark. He should have known that double-decker busses don't exactly pummel. He assumed that he would have time to dodge because he though they pummeled. Double-decker busses actually do a lot of lurching, jouncing, and bouncing, but no pummeling.

    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday January 04 2019, @05:46PM (1 child)

      by Arik (4543) on Friday January 04 2019, @05:46PM (#782131) Journal
      Having had a rather intense personal disagreements with one of these beasts myself, I must agree. There was nothing so kind and gentle as a pummeling on offer. Just a lurch and a crash and it lurched right on down the road like it had never noticed me, laying bleeding behind it.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @09:00AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @09:00AM (#782447)

        You married a bus? Awesome! On video? Or just a one time guy meets bus at speed kind of thing

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday January 04 2019, @05:50PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Friday January 04 2019, @05:50PM (#782134) Journal

      The driver was carrying a banana...A BANANA!

      I was SOOOO scared!

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