Why Does Texas Still Allow Texting While Driving?

**Mac4Lyfe** · 04-01-17, 12:05 AM

Dude, we multitask here. Gun in one hand, phone in the other. Do not fukk with either of them.

**DiggityDaggityDo** · 04-01-17, 12:16 AM

Weeder, do you ever post on SBR while driving?

**Kermit** · 04-01-17, 12:31 AM

Shit, I thought it was illegal everywhere. Then again, you can cause a serious accident just looking down at your phone dialing a number as you can reading or sending a text.

My dad can barely drive properly while he is just talking on the phone.

**Kermit** · 04-01-17, 12:33 AM

By the way, I know the story that you are talking about Seaweed. That was very tragic.

**Cuse0323** · 04-01-17, 12:45 AM

Is that where that guy just killed a bunch of people? Texting is worse than damn drinking for people like me. I can't look down, and drive straight.

**Kermit** · 04-01-17, 12:46 AM

Originally posted by Cuse0323

Is that where that guy just killed a bunch of people? Texting is worse than damn drinking for people like me. I can't look down, and drive straight.

Yeah, he crossed the center lane and hit a church minivan and killed 12 people.

**Cuse0323** · 04-01-17, 12:52 AM

Terrible. The one at fault always seems to walk away. Last I heard he wasn't charged, but recently admitted he was texting. If it isn't illegal there then who knows. Has to get something.

**Kermit** · 04-01-17, 12:55 AM

Originally posted by Cuse0323

Terrible. The one at fault always seems to walk away. Last I heard he wasn't charged, but recently admitted he was texting. If it isn't illegal there then who knows. Has to get something.

There was a witness(or witnesses) that said that he was swerving for awhile before the crash and that he admitted on the scene that he was texting. I think that guy was only 20 years old.

I am glad that I never got into texting. I can't stand it. I get texts often and never even read them. It's like just fukking call me, I don't have the time or patience to type out a message back, especially since I am still rocking a flip-phone.

I do have the bluetooth synced up in all of our cars though.

**NrmlCurvSurfr** · 04-01-17, 01:21 AM

all you have to be is a famous tranny then you can get away with texting and killing people...problem solved

**JIBBBY** · 04-01-17, 01:36 AM

Can't text or have a cell phone to your ear while driving here in Los Angeles, California even in trafficc as you will get a ticket for $282 last I checked. They got cops on bikes on freeways in traffic going up the middle looking for people on phones.. In completely stopped traffic you will still get lit up which is a joke..

**chico2663** · 04-01-17, 01:54 AM

Originally posted by Mac4Lyfe

Dude, we multitask here. Gun in one hand, phone in the other. Do not fukk with either of them.

i'm usually grabbing myself

**chico2663** · 04-01-17, 01:55 AM

Originally posted by JIBBBY

Can't text or have a cell phone to your ear while driving here in Los Angeles, California even in trafficc as you will get a ticket for $282 last I checked. They got cops on bikes on freeways in traffic going up the middle looking for people on phones.. In completely stopped traffic you will still get lit up which is a joke..

what about if you have your phone connected to your car?

**turtlejc** · 04-01-17, 02:34 AM

in chicago you cant even touch your phone without getting a ticket

couple years ago i let a chicago cop in traffic behind me and i picked up my phone at a red light to push the PLAY button on my Iphone music

gave me 150$ ticket

**PittsburghPlayer** · 04-01-17, 08:08 AM

Originally posted by chico2663

what about if you have your phone connected to your car?

That has to be legal the hang-up or on/off switch is within reach of our thumbs,
and them there some pretty short digits

`Cuse is 100% right in that texting is just as bad or worse than drunk driving. It should be illegal nationwide.

Very tragic... case after case of a kid/person believing his.her life (text) is more important AND worth the slaughter of unsuspecting/innocent lives / victims... lives destroyed left behind...

sucks ballz big time

**Sam Losco** · 04-01-17, 08:11 AM

Originally posted by turtlejc

in chicago you cant even touch your phone without getting a ticket

couple years ago i let a chicago cop in traffic behind me and i picked up my phone at a red light to push the PLAY button on my Iphone music

gave me 150$ ticket

same thing where i am in ontario. picked it up to move it from centre console to cup holder because it was moving around, cop said it was enough for a ticket

**Russian Rocket** · 04-01-17, 08:22 AM

Originally posted by Cuse0323

Last I heard he wasn't charged, but recently admitted he was texting.

The dude just kept an eye on SBROdds.com

A no harm, no foul situation here really, Cuser

**Auto Donk** · 04-01-17, 08:24 AM

Originally posted by Seaweed

Most states ban it, why has Texas not followed?

Do not text and drive

gun in one hand, my "gun" in my wife's hand, taking video with my phone in the other hand...... I have no need to text and drive, tho I could if I wanted.....

Texans are talented.....

If I rear-end someone in front of me, trust me... it's intentional.... they were driving too slow.......

**trillz** · 04-01-17, 08:28 AM

Originally posted by turtlejc

in chicago you cant even touch your phone without getting a ticket

couple years ago i let a chicago cop in traffic behind me and i picked up my phone at a red light to push the PLAY button on my Iphone music

gave me 150$ ticket

Did you actually end up having to pay that? That's bs

**Auto Donk** · 04-01-17, 08:33 AM

besides's seeweed, you have more dangerous worries than a guy in a truck runnin' you over while you're crossing a freeway..... as this video clearly establishes:

**JIBBBY** · 04-01-17, 10:50 AM

Originally posted by chico2663

what about if you have your phone connected to your car?

Any hand held electronic device you get lit up.. A sandwich cup of coffee is ok though as silly as that sounds..

**jjgold** · 04-01-17, 11:04 AM

Texas is a state approx 15 years behind the times

**Booya711** · 04-01-17, 11:35 AM

Originally posted by jjgold

Texas is a state approx 15 years behind the times

no we just don't follow all the bullshit the other pussy states do...we are fukking leaders not followers

**capitalist pig** · 04-01-17, 11:37 AM

Fuk, here in FL its illegal to text and drive, but its not a primary offense, the cops cant just pull you over for texting, they have to pull you over for something else, then if you were texting they can write a ticket for texting ,fuking backwards ass law. I think if your under 18 they can pull you over for texting here, but how can they know your age. Big money lobbyists have managed to keep it this way.

Later

**VeggieDog** · 04-01-17, 11:40 AM

Yeah, meanwhile the cops are using their laptops as they drive.

**Roadtrip635** · 04-01-17, 11:46 AM

Originally posted by Kermit

Yeah, he crossed the center lane and hit a church minivan and killed 12 people.

That dumbass SOB was all over the road. There were a couple people behind him filming him and trying to call to get the Sheriffs out there to get him off the road before someone got hurt. The Sheriff's dispatch basically blew them off.......

**JIBBBY** · 04-01-17, 11:48 AM

It's usually the teenage chicks that are texting while driving and causing crashes... I read that some where...

I still text when in traffic and or at a stop light all the time.. I can't lie..

**Chi_archie** · 04-01-17, 12:19 PM

Originally posted by JIBBBY

Any hand held electronic device you get lit up.. A sandwich cup of coffee is ok though as silly as that sounds..

do you really have to pay as much attention to minute moter function with your fingers and READ little letters while eating a sandwich or drinking a bev?

I drink and eat all sorts of stuff while driving

but I almost rear ended a dude while trying to read the alcohol content on the craft beer bottle I was drinking from, ever since then I just drink from my Jack Daniels bottle. I know the alcohol content of that.

better safe than sorry, ya know?

**JIBBBY** · 04-01-17, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by Chi_archie

do you really have to pay as much attention to minute moter function with your fingers and READ little letters while eating a sandwich or drinking a bev?

I drink and eat all sorts of stuff while driving

but I almost rear ended a dude while trying to read the alcohol content on the craft beer bottle I was drinking from, ever since then I just drink from my Jack Daniels bottle. I know the alcohol content of that.

better safe than sorry, ya know?

Yeah, i remember I almost rear ended someone on the freeway texting years ago also. Had to lock the brakes up last second.. Learned my lesson not to text while moving but only when stopped..

Eating and drinking no biggie while driving..

**sweethook** · 04-01-17, 12:59 PM

dont do it sir , its no joke

**Otters27** · 04-01-17, 01:00 PM

Texting and Driving more dangerous than Drinking and Driving

**maggiethebestdog** · 04-01-17, 01:10 PM

Texting is worse in Texas since everyone has a 1st grade level education which guarantees a longer misspelled text. There are many variations of "Y'ALL" as well. That can get confusing and requires an apostrophe, although proper grammar skills are non existent there.

**lakerboy** · 04-01-17, 01:31 PM

Originally posted by Booya711

no we just don't follow all the bullshit the other pussy states do...we are fukking leaders not followers

Texas has the worst drivers in the USA. Bar none.

**packerd_00** · 04-01-17, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by Kermit

Shit, I thought it was illegal everywhere. Then again, you can cause a serious accident just looking down at your phone dialing a number as you can reading or sending a text.

My dad can barely drive properly while he is just talking on the phone.

Should be Kermit.

**JIBBBY** · 04-01-17, 02:36 PM