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Texting and Talking Tow Truck Driver Crashes Into Pool
The mind-bogglingly reckless (and inept) multitasker was allegedly texting and talking while towing two cars -- he also had two motorcycles in the bed of his truck. The distracted driver then rear-ended the car of 68-year-old Lily White, careened through a yard, side-swiped a house, before finally dunking his flatbed and vehicular cargo into the in-ground pool of Brad Kanel.
Sparks has been charged with reckless driving, talking on a cell phone, and following too closely, but can't be charged with texting while driving since New York Governor David Paterson has yet to sign the law criminalizing it.
Thankfully, police confiscated Sparks' cell phones. Here's hoping that part of his punishment is being banned from ever using one ever again. [From: Buffalo News]
Teen Texting Craziness
Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
In December, while on a class trip (according to an Internet rumor anyway), the above message appeared on 18-year-old Elizabeth Frisinger's phone after mistakenly texting her dad, back home in Cleveland, that she'd just lost her virginity. Whoops!
Outdoing Reina Hardesty, 15-year-old Ohioan Paige Hornev averages 15,000 text messages a month. That comes out to the impressive, or pitiful, average of 500 text messages a day.
Thinking about Emily Jenning's texting abilities just makes our thumbs hurt. The Vancouver, British Columbia teen pumped out an absurd 41,600 text messages in the course of a single month -- we did some quick calculations and that works out to about one text every minute.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentscenturian1Jul 31st 2009 6:52PM
Um....the picture is Photoshopped as a tongue-in-cheek illustration and not meant to represent the actual incident in the story. Get a clue.
kpick559Jul 31st 2009 7:00PM
The story is real . I live not far from where this happened. He hit a car with a woman and an 8 year old child who are hospitalized. The picture is a fake.
RoJul 31st 2009 7:02PM
Calabaza: - Read the article again. It was not the car but the flatbed towtruck that hit the car, careened thru someone's backyard & wound up in the pool. Pay attention.
dls031568Jul 31st 2009 7:21PM
anyone who talk or text while driving is a idiot.... your driving a car NOT a phone booth.....put down the cell phone morons.... you aint NO ONE special!!
PaulJul 31st 2009 7:21PM
I'm not sure which concerns me more, texting while driving, or the reading comprehension skills of some of the people here. OK, for the last time, THE PICTURE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE! The story is strange, but true.
steve3927Jul 31st 2009 7:34PM
There's nothing wrong with taking a call and saying, "I'll be there in about 30 minutes," and then hanging up, or using voice dial on a cell phone for BRIEF important messages (not discussing who you saw at the mall!) BUT we don't need any money spent on studies to prove that texting is dangerous, because you AREN'T LOOKING AT THE ROAD! DUH!!!! How much brain does it take to figure this out???
mesamanJul 31st 2009 7:40PM
This is one way of cleansing the DNA of idiots and imbeciles. Sort of a cerebral version of a colon cleanse. Unfortunately he will live to breed.
peteJul 31st 2009 8:00PM
WELL I KEW THIS WAS BAD WE HAD A SOMETHING LIKE HERE HAPPEN 4 GIRLS WERE IN A CAR THE DRIVER OF THE GIRLS CAR WAS TEXTING AND WASNT LOOKING AND GOT BROAD SIDED BY A BIG RIG AND ALL 4 LOST THERE LIVES THIS MORON SHOULD HE BEHIND A WHEEL OR ANYONE FOR THAT MATTER IF THERE GOING TO TALK ON THERE CELL PHONE OR TEXTING TEXTING YOU ARENT EVEN LOOKING WERE YOUR GOING AND THIS IDOT COULD HAVE KILLED PEOPLE FROM,PETE IN SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA