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Drop the phone--now
Published: July 30, 2004, 9:44 AM PDT
By David Becker
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

If dirty looks and frequent shushing aren't enough to get you to change your mobile phone habits, then welcome to St. Petersburg, Fla., where inconsiderate phone use will get you a shot of mace and a visit from Johnny Law.

St. Petersburg police records detail the weekend encounter of one officer with Warronica Harris and Terrell "K.C." Tolson. The couple was preparing to enjoy a screening of "Catwoman" at the Baywalk Plaza cinema in St. Pete but had some phone business to finish while the opening credits were rolling.

Officers asked the couple to cease the conversation, a suggestion that was not met with an Emily Post-level response, according to the police report. Harris' precise reply, according to police, was to tell the officer she planned to "hit the cracker in his head." Tolson made a similar pledge targeting another part of the officer's anatomy, according to the report.

"Suspects got hostile and were pepper sprayed," the report continues, noting that the couple were taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct. "The arrest served the purpose for the night," the report cryptically concludes.

Appropriate use of cell phones has become one of modern society's biggest etiquette issues as the devices have proliferated, with authorities ranging from Amtrak to the La Scala opera house weighing in on mobile phone manners.

Harris later told The Associated Press that she was taking an emergency call from her mother and that neither she nor Tolson made any threats to the police.

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Hello Ripely's? You're not going to believe this...

jsmatos said:
Harris later told The Associated Press that she was taking an emergency call from her mother and that neither she nor Tolson made any threats to the police.
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Yeah, riiiiiiiight!

I remember back when cell phones were starting to become popular. My wife and I were at the movies to see "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas. About 3/4 the way through the movie, some guy gets a call on his cell, and starts into a loud, long conversation. Dozens of people are telling him to quiet down, peppered with obscenities. Finally, myself and another larger individual told the gentleman that he had three choices, would either end the call, take the call in the lobby, or we would do it for him. Except we weren't that polite.

Another time, I was on a plane, waiting to take off. There was a doctor sitting in front of me who was on his cell. One flight attendant tells him that we can't take off while he is on his cell, and to please end the call. He tells her that he's a doctor, the call is about a patient, and keeps on. Another flight attendant tells him the same thing, with the same response. This happens a third time, same response. Finally the Captain tells him that either he ends the call, or he will be removed from the plane.

The nerve of some people. Last week I went to see "Spiderman 2," and there's some teenage girl yakking on and on. At least she hung up when the previews started. I would have loved to tell her the shut the fukking thing off.

And don't get me started on people talking on the cell and smoking at the same time while driving.
 
Centaur said:
And don't get me started on people talking on the cell and smoking at the same time while driving.
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and don't forget reading the newspaper :eek: :rolleyes:
people are something else
 
I am trying to picture the two in the theater in St.Petersburg being pepper-sprayed. And picturing the effect on the rest of the audience, sparse as it may have been.

One way or another, I imagine they pretty well ruined the movie for everyone.
 
what about the Biatch in the Merko I nearly rear ended on 465 in Indianapolis last week. Driving in the far left lane at 45 mph yakking away..completly oblivious..I rolled up on her at 75 with my horn blaring and lights flashing...she about shiit her victoria secret satin panties..
 
My stepfather is an avid fly fisherman. So, some time ago I determined to read through one of his fly tying supply catalogs and see if I could find an appropriate Christmas gift for him.

That's where I saw -- and I kid you knot (pun intended) -- a fly tying vise specifically designed to attach to your steering wheel.

So, next to you see a car whose driver doesn't seem to be fully engaged, it might not be a cell-phone user or a lady fixing her makeup, but a guy driving down the road while tying a fishing fly!

Needless to say, I did not order the steering wheel fly vice for my stepfather.
 
The original idea behind those vises, was so that they could be clamped to round objects like tree branches, so that if you required a fly that was not in your inventory, you could tie it in the field. Whoever came up with the idea that it should be attached to a steering wheel needs to be taken out behind the shed and beaten.
 
So, next to you see a car whose driver doesn't seem to be fully engaged, it might not be a cell-phone user or a lady fixing her makeup, but a guy driving down the road while tying a fishing fly!
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That is hilarious!

I can't imagine an activity that requires more concentration and dexterity-- short of neurosurgery-- than tying flies. Ha ha.

Ah, the good old days.

The funniest thing I ever saw, as far as drivers are concerned, was a guy playing the flute while driving. He was steering with his knees.
 
I was at Applebees the other night enjoying an awesome burger when some woman with about 10 other people in her group started talking on one of those obnoxious Nextel walkie-talkie phones. BEEEP: Hi! BEEEP BEEEP. Ugh. Newsflash, dolt: There's no point in the walkie talkie feature when carrying on a phone conversation! If you have to say one thing, I can understand, but I don't want to hear that awful sound in a restaraunt, so I said "Enough with the cell phone!" and she stared and me and her and one of her friends gave each other the "What a jerk" look. I hate people that have to be general nuisances. Yesterday at a gas station, I was sitting in the car while my dad topped off the tank (it was $1.77/gal there). An elderly woman was sitting in the passenger seat of an old Chrysler Newport. While her husband was in the store, she looked around to see if anyone was watching, opened her door a little, put her hand under the door, and frisbeed a cigarette pack under the car. It bothered me because A) she was littering and B) she thought nobody saw her.
 
I'll have you know that this was not discussed in our news at all. Baywalk is an "outdoor mall" used to "revitalize downtown", so nobody goes to any of the other businesses downtown, and all the criminals wait in the parking lots. I posted in PT a situation where some guy was stabbed in the parking lot of Muvico (which is in Baywalk). I work, and am currently, one block away from the very theatre.
 
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