BIKE: Today's AAS Rant

[Loren Schooley]

Once you read the report yourself, you'll see that they brought up the cell
phone for the exact reason you claimed they paid no attention too. It was a
statement that basically expressed the danger of cell phones and driving.

They kinda even added insult to injury- would you prefer to make the
headlines: "Negligent Death Chatting on Cell" or rather no exposure at all
while avoiding the headlines: "Dancing Like Nobody's Watching on the
Interstate Freeway"? Me thinks the Freeway Dancer left Earth with a tad more
dignity.

The AAS successfully favored anti-cell-while-driving advocates on this one.


> From: "Stuart Werbner" <stuwerb>
> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:23:31 -0600
> To: forum
> Subject: BIKE: Today's AAS Rant
> 
> The latest thing the AAS has done to piss me off:
> 
> A friend told me that there was a story in today's AAS (3/13) about the 29
> year old white woman in the red beemer that was killed near the intersection
> of 620 and 2222 yesterday afternoon. Evidently, the paper even bothered to
> find out that she was talking on her cell phone as she lost control of her
> vehicle.
> 
> Then, contrast that with the coverage given to the guy who several weeks ago
> was hit by a truck trying to cross I-35. Never did find out much about him.
> Never did find out why he and others like him risk crossing the highway.
> Never any attention paid to that. Guess he was just some poor, crazy
> minority, oh well....
> 
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