Police Cite 74 for Driving While on Cell Phone

For those who must talk on their cells while driving, check out the solar-powered versions made by IOgear. One will even support voice-command dialing and announce incoming calls for very hands-free operation with minimal distraction. It does this by copying your phone's contact list, then uses the caller ID to do text-to-voice synthesis.

Yess!!! Finally some good police work.

I can't keep track of all the "close calls" I've personally had with MORONS who continue to be distracted by cell phone use causing them to drive more erratically than they already do.

Most of you cannot walk and chew gum, let alone drive and yak on the friggin' phone. Keep citing these selfish & callous scofflaws for these potentially deadly infractions.

Need to talk?
PULL OVER.
Safely, of course.
Can you HEAR ME NOW????

Their favorite place to congregate is the fast lane of the 101 fwy where they go @ a whopping 50 mph & then get ticked as you pass them on the right going the actual (65 mph) speed.
In Isla Vista where I olive, the close calls are many. Had some dingbat almost ride her bike into the front of my non-moving car because she was too busy w/ her stupid i-phone to watch where the hell she was going.
A word of advice to any of you that gets involved in an accident w/ 1 of these cellphone morons: Note down the exact time of the accident then have the police officer check the person's cellphone for the last call made & what time it ended.
By the way, any of you seen that youtube vidoe of that idiot in Philly that was so busy messing w/ her phone that she fell into a fontain @ the mall? HILARIOUS! Now she's suing. What a LOSER! :) henry

Finally!!! It boils my blood when I see one of those carefree yackers blithely swerving on Goleta and IV streets, never mind the highway.

Hmarcuse, I totally hear where you're coming from, on side streets it is WAY worse in terms of pedestrians & general traffic conditions :) henry

A friend of mine is an actress and occasionally has small parts on tv shows. She was rehearsing her lines to herself in her car and got pulled over for suspicion of talking on a speaker while driving.

She had her purse on the back seat floor of the car but wasn't able to convince the guy she wasn't actually talking to anyone.

Poor thing. At least she has a funny story now with her $150 ticket.

a friend of mine was pulled over because he was doing the characteristic "lean" on the center armrest typical of most cell phone talkers. he also happened to be driving an audi with a bluetooth connection, to which the phone was paired, and he proved it as such. he managed not to get a ticket.

now i know there are actual idiots out there, but when you get pulled over for leaning, are we just reaching?

Anyone that uses a cellphone while driving is going to be distracted whether they have a blue tooth device in their ear or on the dash or in the console, speaker phones, or someone in the passenger seat holding it or talking on it. It's a distraction either way you look at it. As for the blue tooth device that goes into your ear, it is by far more dangerous to the person wearing it. It transfers radiation into their brain. If you don't believe this you need to go and search Google or check out this link www.waveshield.com When I was working in a holistic cancer center here in SB we had a patient that was constantly wearing his blue tooth to do his import/export business. He developed a tumor on the same side he wore his blue tooth device, the tumor spread down his spine and was inoperable, he was only in his 20's when he passed away a couple of years ago.
There are numerous stories like this all over the internet.
Think about it, when your talking on your cellphone and after awhile it gets hot and you can feel it. Well that is radiation! Now the cell phone companies will say this is all hogwash, because they're trying to sell and promote their products they will say anything to make money!
A doctor that I had worked with here in SB stated he would wear his cellphone on his hip clipped to his belt, he developed a tumor in the shape of his cellphone....just sayin'!

I had one on my tail today. I was driving the 154 at 4:51 in the afternoon and this guy was right behind me and I tapped the brakes three times hoping he'd get the message which he didn't.

We got the the two-lane break and he zipped past me (I was going between 50-55 M.P.H. and he was on the phone without a headset.

His license plate was SBAG(fill in the blank for the next two numbers which I will not publish) I mention this since I see a lot of vehicles with license plate that start with "SBAG" so I'm thinking it must be a county vehicle and "SBAG" must mean Santa Barbara Agriculture.

Can anyone fill me in?

Got pulled over for singing to the tunes on the radio, 5-0, thought I on a phone but after detaining me on the side of the road (In handcuffs) for over an hour to search my car for the cell-phone, then released me with a warning, "No talking out-loud while driving, or next time go to JAIL!!!". I am awaiting my trial date for the Lawsuit against the department for Harasment, I'm seeking 18M for the offence but will settle out-of-court for about a Million.

Charles.

I have a great picture I took with my Cell phone of a S.B. Sheriff parked in a handicap parking spot while working out at the gym in Goleta last week. No, he was not writing a ticket or writing a report. He was working out. Funny that he even used his Black & White for personal use too. Great use of tax payers money.