MOPED ARMY

yes, we always wear lids. The guy in the pick up was no farmer, and it wasn't a work truck, just some jerk in a hurry to hay to his horse probably.

I woulda made sure my kid was ok, dropped him off back at the house......

And then found that driver and made him eat the Bale AND the freakin cellphone.

I really, really hate that......especially given the irony here.

Sunday while returning from Ann Arbor, got caught behind a truck fulla haybales with two kids in the back seat of the car in the usual michigan-madness traffic, and when those unsecured bales started wobbling - I went AROUND this jerk, and what's he doin ? Guess.

Man was I tempted to go shove that cellphone where his proctologist would have to retrieve it.

I say we lynch the next one.

Cellphones are Evil.

-Ree

Probably not - but you'll get a kick out of this.

Back in Baltimore I had some joker nearly hit me while I was stopped at a red light, and he pulled to the side of the lane to avoid doing so, and so he was beside my moped....and I noticed his door wasn't locked.

Yanked it open and snatched his cellphone, told him he could get it back from the desk sergeant of the local police station, cause he SURE wasn't gettin it back from me.

Being a yuppie executroid, he quickly evaluated his chances of taking the phone from me (like, nonexistant), and took off, as the light had changed during our "discussion".

True to my word, I dropped the phone off with the local PD's Desk Officer, along with a pointed hint that the owner could use a stern lecture on the subject of paying attention to what he's doin.

Now that's not to say having a cellphone in the car is unilaterally bad, cause we did find a very appropriate use for my roommates, coming back from Detroit one night.

We wound up behind a guy who was quite obviously three-sheets-to-the-wind drunk, and rung on the State Police, and gave em tag number, description, and mile marker, and when he finally pulled off we called em back and gave em the exit he took...I hope they caught him, too - DWI is about as stupid and dangerous as it gets.

So the infernal things do have their uses, but like any good tool, it's far more prone to misuse and abuse than it's intended service.

-Ree

If you should nearly hit me cause yer payin attention to your cellphone instead of your driving, which you should not be....and I decide to make an issue of it with you, you are of course welcome to try that.

How do you think WE feel about being cut off and otherwise pushed around on the road we have as much right to as you do, by folks like you ?

The reason why over a quarter of my body is made outta metal and plastic is cause of folks like you who seem to think they have the right to do as they please out there and be damned to anyone else...and to be frank, I have no qualms about hurting people like that or damaging their vehicles.

My unfortunate presumption here, is that most of our readers had the fuckin sense not to drive with a cell phone stuck to their head, but I guess, stupidity, like competence, is a potentially infinate thing.

If you should happen to be in my neck of the woods are see a big red Targa (I own the only one in about 25 miles), and have a burning desire to really make an issue...feel free, we can "discuss" it in proper testosterone-overload barbaric fashion if you so desire...it makes no real difference to me.

-Ree

am i the only one who doesnt think cell-phones suck? I have a headset attachment for my nokia on my helmet. And it automatically answers any calls that comes in. My phone is strapped onto the dash of my Targa. I personally think it is ok to use the phone when driving, riding, just as long as you are careful, and if possible have a hands free kit.

-WISKY

Man i ride in the country all the time and about 4 days ago i went down this dead end dirt highway im 15 and my elite hates bumps and i was alredy doing 33 and all of a suden (WOOF WOOF) shit a dog a big dog dont care what kind just got get away its a dead end and the dog stoped chasing and it was a ways back so i got going like about 40 (72 cc mallosi bore kit) and i see it running out of a yard AND ITS OWNER WAS LAFING and it came like 8 inch's from hitting my nose cone and THUD i kicked it at speed its owner was pissed but so was i. (I HATE DOGS AND DOGS HATE MOPED AND SCOOTERS) Mike hartel.