<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 18, 2007 4:51 PM, Marcel Carey <<a href="mailto:mcpianos@hotmail.com">mcpianos@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br>I think stopping on a highway and then trying to get going while merging with traffic is WAY MORE DANGEROUS than just speaking on the cell phone.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That's a good point. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Now if you're one of these who are trying to write, speak and smoke without the hands free, then you're a real public danger. And I do see some of these on the road. </blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And then there are always folks who just shouldn't be driving with or without a phone.  I really think it's more about the person, not necessarily the device he is holding.  I don't think </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">There is talk about prohibiting cell phone conversations here in Québec. It's not a law yet, but I'll bet it's not far. <br><br>I thought that when I'd be grown up I'd be free... I guess the government here is trying a little too hard to play mom...</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's getting worse here in the States as well.  Well-intended (perhaps), but certainly unintended and negative consequences.  I wonder when we will realize there are risks against which one cannot be protected.  It's part of life.  Just let us live and die, please.  :-) </div><div> </div></div>-- <br>JF<br><br>