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Buffalo Boy Mike
February 2, 2010 / 08:10

Cell phone bans have always puzzled me, Im going to traffic court today to plead on a cell phone offense and honestly, whats the difference, yestreday I was eating and driving which takes just as much of my attention.
I can change a CD in my car, change the channel on my car radio which takes my eyes off the road, where does it stop?

Anonymous
February 2, 2010 / 09:45

Went to the doctor for my yearly physical.

She starts with certain basics.

How much do you weigh?' she asks. '135,' I say.
The doctor put me on the scale. It turns out my weight is 180.

The doctor asks, 'Your height?' '5 foot 4,' I say.
She checked and saw that I only measure 5'2'.

She then took my blood pressure and told me it is very high.
'Of course it's high!' I scream'. When I came in here I was tall and
slender! Now I'm short and fat!'

She put me on Prozac. What a bitch.

LEW
February 2, 2010 / 18:55

I'm a big fan of the hands free laws. I did a study of one, me. I'm a big time walker and since the advent of cellular phones, I cannot count the amount of times I have almost been creamed, by you guess who, someone with a phone to their ear. They are as
Now when I drive, I drink coffee and sometimes even have a burger, but please remember, when you eat or drink when driving, you tend to pick when you are going to have a sip. That discretion does not happen with a phone.

Rick C in Oakville
February 2, 2010 / 20:53

ARGHHHH, getting sick of the snivel servants and their union masters all bi*ching about their lot in life and they are doing it for the students and quality education, yada yada.
Come and try and keep your head afloat in the private sector for a few years, you'll be sprinting back to your indexed pensions, gazillion sick days and fully entitled jobs before you can say Union. It hasn't been a cake walk out here, with business down 20-30%, no raises for staff, so easy to pick the pockets of the taxpayer as Mcsquinty and company just throw our cash at situations to make them go away. And by the way your holding your future pension contributors for ransom by playing this game. My kid is in his final year in a 3 year technology program and he even realises who you really are looking out for.
Suck it up as you have a very nice situation going on compared to many.

JAKE
February 3, 2010 / 09:56

You know when the economy boomed for 15-20 years and people were getting big raises and bonuses gov't people weren't. So if business is down now---suck it up!!!!!!!!!!

Right Uppercut
February 3, 2010 / 13:54

Jake: When has a generous and cushy government pension plan (funded by the taxpayer's who work in the PRIVATE sector, by the way!); when has one of those solid-gold gov't pension plans ever disappeared, or even been chopped back?!

What's that? "Never?" Ah ha!

Despite the boom-and-bust economic cycle for the private sector, those unionized goons have a job for life. They know it, and continue to stick it to the taxpayer!

Jobs for life ain't true in the real world though.

El Torpedo
February 3, 2010 / 16:00

It's pretty silly to say the cell phone ban shouldn't be enforced at all if they aren't crack down on every other possible distraction. That's kind of like saying they can't ban AK-47's if they don't ban .22's.

The problem with the cell phone ban is not that they enacted it, it's that they didn't go far enough. There's been a ton of research completed on cell phone use and driving. It's understood that you're engaging completely different parts of your brain when you're having a conversation with someone than you are when you're taking a sip of coffee, and it's much more distracting. Think of your own personal experiences driving in the past 10 years. Have you always noticed several cars in a day weaving across lanes? Or did this only start with any frequency once cell phones came on the scene?
The flaw with this ban is that hands-free doesn't prevent the distraction of having the conversation - it's only a concession to the telecom companies.
Oh, and before someone says "Then we shouldn't have conversations with passengers." there is a difference. The same research has shown that conversing with a passenger doesn't have the same dramatic effect on your driving because you actually have more eyes on the road, and the passenger can anticipate when to shut up and let you drive, unlike someone at the other end of a cell phone.

Rick C in Oakville
February 3, 2010 / 21:25

Jake I am just a Tech support manager and don't make a small fortune, truth be known 3 years with a Technology certificate does not put you in the category to benefit from the economy boom, and the big raises you think everyone in the private sector reaped.

The problem with the civil service negotiations is the government negotiators do not have a vested interest in the outcome, taxpayer will always pay, the government mounts a mock tough stance, send it to binding arbitration which always favours the union, government shrugs it shoulders and hands the bill to you and I.

Maybe someday we may have the same situation as Phoenix, not enough money coming in to pay the civil servants (just like the private sector has experienced) and guess what happens, layoffs happen. They have a good gig, so suck it up.

We will hit a wall with taxation, government debt and government surcharges. The economy will drive further under ground and the government will reap less. Just check out how many home construction projects and auto repairs etc. are done under the table.

Jake
February 4, 2010 / 09:33

The big cost in running a gov't isn't staff salaries although the gov't would like you to believe it.

Duke
February 4, 2010 / 11:17

Toronto won the garbage strike. The Union caved on the sick leave clause. Gov't can wait out Unions on strike as they are getting paid and the strikers aren't. When campaign conributors call and complain about the lack of service the gov't listens but doesn't move. After the strike they can't leave it alone and get done to business but have to politic and announce what this has cost us. As for the sick leave clause, the cost down the road will be the same to replace the 15 days a yr workers will call in sick as it would to cash workers who showed up for work every day out. But the gov;t transparency won't reveal that. Only waht the pblic will swallow...and they hire polsters at GREAT expense to tell them that. But they are friends of friends so that's ok. Contracting out is another story.

Sid
February 4, 2010 / 12:34

TTC driver takes a piss. Some yuppie films him and it becomes news. The papers get in on it then they have to suspend him to save face.
As a buddy at work said to people who harrassed him...'get away from me'.
What a city of whiners.

Right Uppercut
February 4, 2010 / 18:17

Yes, Sid's brain is taking a leak!

That driver parked the late-night bus to stroke his shlong, and then got a coffee... all the while leaving the DOOR OPEN on a bus that had passengers!

Gee, that's really secure... leave the bus with people on board unattended with an open door, late at night in a city known for gang-banger shootings.

That yahoo should be fired!
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Mikey: the problem is NOT 'capitalism,' but rather the "collektiv" mind-set of the unions.

After all, "collectivism" was a founding-bloc of that failed Soviet-bloc thinking.

And; nowadays; our wussy-liberals get a major case of limp-wrists when it comes to rejecting union demands, and standing up for the TAXPAYER!

That is the real problem.

Not capitalism; as us capitalists believe in SELF-incentive, individuality, and SELF sufficience... instead of relying on the "collektive" mind-set to make liberals drop to their knees and spew out MY tax dollars in an orgy of insane spending!

Sid
February 5, 2010 / 00:28

7 minutes to take a leak...who here doesn't shake it at least twice?
He has to put up with TO scum burping and farting on his bus for hrs and we feel he can't take 7 f-en minutes to stoke it. And who's running for Mayor?

El Torpedo
February 5, 2010 / 10:20

You're a lot more patient than I am Sid. I know as a passenger I'd be pissed sitting there for 7 minutes when the bus was already 15 minutes behind schedule. These passengers aren't riding the bus at 2:30 in the morning because they feel like taking a pleasure cruise - they're shift workers. Sorry, but this driver is provided with scheduled breaks. This was unauthorized, and taken at the passengers expense.
By the way, if he doesn't like putting up with "TO scum", I'm sure he can easily find another job. I assume he's not some lazy, high school dropout.

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