Listening While You Work?

chas smith · Post by **chas smith** » 8 Jan 2008 5:56 pm

If the Cops see you using mobile phones while driving in U.K. it's an instant £1,000 fine...about $2,000, and 3 points on your driving licence.

We need that in LA... I've been thinking of buying one of those cell phone jammers.

Micky Byrne · Post by **Micky Byrne** » 9 Jan 2008 12:35 am

Good for you Chas....the statistics here show that so many people have lost loved ones in road accidents because of someone who was using a mobile phone had run into them, whilst not concentrating, but I still see guys overtake me holding a phone to their ear.The law now are thinking of prison for that issue. Just too many cars on the roads, and too few Cops cars about when needed.

Micky Byrne U.K.

Bill Cunningham · Post by **Bill Cunningham** » 10 Jan 2008 3:55 pm

Thanks everybody for your feedback. It’s nice to know I am not alone in not being able to focus on other tasks if there is music in the background.

The comments about cops and cell phones made me remember that I got a ticket in East Ellijay, GA a few year ago for 78 in a 45 on the way to a gig. I was engrossed in Jim Murphy’s version of “Take The A-Train” on the Shot Jackson Tribute album at the time.