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Originally Posted by kits135i
RANT
First, I just want to say, it's not nice of you to pick on metal. it can be any music that some dbag can be blasting and not hear with two ear buds in. Even with one in the ear, if the music is loud enough you would have a hard time hearing the emergency vehicles.
Now on to the ticket. You broke the damn law deal with it!!!! Sure you can go in to court and bitch, which is why the tickets keep going up as that cost a lot of money hearing a bunch of whiners all day, and get a reduced fine I'm sure, but you did the crime now PAY FOR IT and stop complaining how much it is! It cost $207 to help pay for all the people going to court whining they have to pay anything for breaking the law!
You think your phone call is more important to some person dying??? It's easy not to see the lights flashing in the middle of the day to know exactly where they are. You need to be able to hear where its coming from ASAP so you can move over ASAP! Windows up, both ear buds on a phone call (or blasting music), sorry, you are not hearing them till they are right on your ass slowing them down, while some guys life is one the line and every second counts!!!
As I have been this situation and almost lost my life due to some asshat slowing down the ambulance! I am a little annoyed when people think their phone call or party they are trying to get to are worth a person life. Just think about it next time you are slowing down some emergency vehicle, what if that was me that needed that to get to me...
These laws are made for a purpose. While most idiots think they are just money makers, they are for real reasons. They see what happens, they have the numbers that show this caused this many accidents and or deaths, this caused so many people from dying due to the ambulance or any other emergency vehicle not getting to their destination on time etc, etc.
Tired of people complain how they broke the law and now they have to pay for it. Let me play my worlds smallest violin for you while you pay the fine that is RIGHTFULLY due!
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I wan't distracted. At that moment in time, the way I was using my headphones would not have prevented me from yielding to any emergency vehicle. As I mentioned before, as soon as the patrol car lit me up and blared the siren, I pulled over. I knew immediately.
However, if the CHP pulled me over and said, did you see that ambulance that just passed you? And I said, Ambulance? Only to look up and see that my phone call was so loud and I was so distracted by what my friend had to say that I missed a blaring ambulance with all its fancy lights on; then yes, fine me and everyone else that drives that way $412 at a minimum.
WATCH OUT PEOPLE! NEWSFLASH!! GUY IN 335I DRIVING THROUGH BERKELEY JUST BECAME A DISTRACTED DRIVER AS SOON AS THE SECOND EAR PIECE WAS PUT ON! EVERYONE RUN FOR THE HILLS - HE HAS A SECOND EARPIECE IN! GREAT JOB CHP - GLAD TO SEE MY TAX DOLLARS ARE HARD AT WORK.
I kid, I kid!!!
I received a ticket for wearing an extra earpiece. We all know that makes all the difference when it comes to my ability to notice and expediently yield to an emergency vehicle....and that I was very distracted because the second earpiece exponentially alters the high level of concentration needed to navigate gridlock traffic because I can hear the caller clearer.