#textingandriving

[mobilizesouthflorida]

Stuart Students Get Lesson in Dangers of Texting and Driving

As part of National Teen Driver Safety Week, students at South Fork High School in Stuart got a lesson in the dangers of texting while driving.

Around 1,700 10th, 11th and 12th graders participated in an AT&T simulator event on Oct. 20. The simulator, a part of the It Can Wait movement started by AT&T, provides a 3D driving simulation through a "city" of about 8 blocks. During the drive, the person on the simulator receives text messages on a smartphone and has to reply.

The simulator creates the eyes-off-the-road and hands-off-the-wheel experience of texting while driving. The South Fork teens were also shown documentaries that tell the real-life stories of people whose lives have been changed forever because of texting while driving.

Eric Hasert of Treasure Coast Newspapers snapped some incredible shots at the event: http://www.tcpalm.com/galleries/at-t-it-can-wait-program-at-south-fork-high-school

To get involved with the It Can Wait movement or take the pledge to next text and drive, click here.

[payal14]

Texting and Driving – A One Act Play

(Because there is no other way to describe this than theatrics)

Characters:

Jaykishan (notorious for texting and driving with the attitude of “I’m untouchable”)

Payal (worn out from trying to tell her husband to stop his bad habit)

Police Officer (waiting to pounce on guilty party)

Setting: Jaykishan in the driver’s seat of his X5, with phone in hand texting with no care in mind. Payal riding in the passenger seat, annoyed that phone is riding shotgun more than she is.  Police officer in clear view of anyone with two eyes on the road.  

 Scene

Saturday morning of TX/OU minutes before kickoff.Parking lot of Royal Choptstix in Irving, en route to Twin Peaks.

Act 1:

Jaykishan: (looking up to review mirror) Oh crap, I just got pulled over!

Payal: (eyebrow raised) Better put that phone down

Officer: Sir, the reason I pulled you over today is because you failed to stop at the Stop sign

Jaykishan: Yes sir

 - Officer leaves to go write ticket-                                                                                                 

Jaykishan: (turning to Payal) What stop sign, I didn’t see no stop sign!?!

Payal: Ummm the one that has always been there

Jaykishan: Which one, I don’t’ remember it!

Payal: The one right as your making that turn

Jaykishan: Oh that one…

Payal: You mean your 3rd eye didn’t see it while your other two eyes were texting.

Jaykishan: This is Bhavin’s fault I was texting him

Payal: Right of course, because he told you to run the stop sign so you could text him, Yep, you are right, all his fault.

Jaykishan: But I really was texting him!

Payal: (shakes her head in defeat)

The End. 

[razeeedays]

Journal #9382

I really suck at taking discreet pictures in public (what you take pictures of strangers?!- pos I'm not the only one) and we're on our way to jamba juice and my sister is drivinf and we stop at a light and I look to my left and there's a guy texting and I was like 'yo mofo I ain't dying today' and I start makint menacing faces then my sister says take a picture and send it to 911 I then proceed to take a picture of him and lo and behold that was perfect timing because he manages to look over straight me and well shit I start saying I'm a cop in training bitch. Don't text and drive.