The Cell Phone Ban, Yeah Right

On April 1st was introduced "The Cell Phone Ban" where drivers were now forbitten from using a cell phone while at the wheel, there was an uproar followed by a raising of shields by all kinds of people's rights defense groups and a lot of media "blah blah blah" about it. They even had experts on the television show what kind of bluetooth apparatus would be legal, and what kind would not.

Like there's a class given in CEGEP called Techniques de Legal of The Cell Phone Behind the Wheel There-La...

So now it's over a month later, people have had ample time to acquire earpieces, wired or not for their cell phones but why is it then that every single day while I'm on the road, I see at least three or four drivers using the cell phone the traditional way, by holding it up to their ears?

I'll give you the answer to that one:

It's because the SQ and La Police De Montreal (and Quebec, and Sherbrooke, and etc.) don't have the manpower to stop normal road delinquents, the REALLY dangerous ones who speed, cut in and out of lanes, pass on the right, tailgate, illegally change lanes where there is a continuous line, run stop signs, red lights, etc.

Imagine if they were going to start wasting their precious little time by stopping delinquent cell phone users.

We should've known.

Really you'd think we would've seen this coming.

All it does is aggravate people like myself for whom driving with a cell phone is not a problem because we never made a habit of it and only did it in emergency situations. Only now we see other drivers, some of who I'm sorry but clearly wouldn't know a steering wheel if it jumped up and bit them in the ass, drive around like sissies, with a cell phone in their hand, held up by their ear.

Now that it's illegal all it does is frustrate us all.

All the Transport Ministry has done with this bill, is make bad matters worse.