Despite my most recent phone purchase (by recent, I mean I've had it about a week), I fully support these types of measures:
In Vienna, Austria authorities are starting to crackdown on cell phone chatter in public transit modes of transportation.
I bought a very specific phone so I could chat on IM and do my e-mailing. I fully support banning the use of talking on cellphones in all types of public transportation, short of cabs.
The Mythbusters did a show where they tested the old myth about airline gauges being screwed with by cellphone signals, and they found it to be plausible but probably a bogus claim. Bogus or not, who wants to sit next to some chowderhead who is yapping about shit in their lives on a plane? Especially with that confined space, by the time everyone got on their phone, they'd be yelling into their phones...it's ridiculous.
Nor, do I want this on the subway, on the commuter rail, on a bus.
I also agree with bans on texting while driving, and forcing people to use a hands-free device while talking and driving. But, if we are going to go after these people, can we also go after the asshats who put on makeup, shave, or even read a friggin' book while driving??
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True story: I was standing in line at the post office a couple of years ago -- a very loooong line -- and this airhead bimbo was a few people in front of me, nattering away on her phone in a hideously loud and irritating voice.
After what seemed like hours, but was likely just a few minutes, I mumbled something under my breath like, "Oh for the love of Christ." The woman in front of me immediately turned around and said to me, "She wouldn't think she was so cute if she realized she'd rubbed off half of her eyebrow. And so she had! That reduced four or five of us to laughing out loud at the inconsiderate oaf, who hadn't a clue.
Let's go one step further and outlaw it in any public place where people are forced to be in close proximity to each other.
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