1. Guess what? It’s technically legal for you to talk on a phone in a school zone! So forget those darned kids and their stupid safety. Get on that phone and start chatting!
2. On his way to lunch one day, Bryan Jacobs saw a woman weaving in and out of traffic on I-35. When she hit a wall, he realized she was knocked out, so he pulled his truck in front of her car and forced her to stop. Doctors discovered the woman had a tumor on her brain. Jacobs is now nominated for a national award called Citizen Service Above Self Honors. I like Jacobs. Not just because he saved a woman’s life and possibly other lives, but because of his view on marriage: “I’m glad to know she and her husband, who have only been married a year, get to bug each other for another 70 to 80 years,” Jacobs said.
3. I don’t think it’s ever too early to start thinking about corny dogs, fried Elvis sandwiches, chicken-fried bacon, and—my favorite part of the State Fair—OU/TX. So I was elated to see that the State Fair theme has been announced: it’s “Super Sized Fun.” See what they did there? They tied it in with the Super Bowl. Maybe Big Tex will do one of these.
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worse yet, i’ve seen many, many DPD officers cruising through school zones chatting away on their cell phones. One of them is my daughter’s school zone and its so irritating.
So I understand journalists are in a hurry, etc. etc. But given the, er, simplified writing style necessitated by television, one would hope that reporters, or perhaps an editor, or maybe even a random camera guy with a passing familiarity of the English language would catch the misplaced/missing word from the cell phone story. In the first sentence. That reads like gibberish. *Sigh* It mars a pretty interesting report.
I’m already tired of the Super Bowl. Yes we get it it’s going to be here. Do we really need 11 months more of this?
That story about Jacobs and the truck and saving that woman is seriously awesome in so many ways.
This is a little off topic, but my school zone rant is that it always seems as though it’s the mini vans with [insert child name] [insert child sport icon] stickers who are the ones speeding through the school zones. I don’t even have kids, and I try to be uber conscious of the reduced speed limits.
Susie, you are so right. Most of the people speeding in the school zone I pass through are parents with children who destination IS the school.
I love the guy’s logic. Sorry, bud, but it IS the law. The issue is the signs. So yes, it may be currently unenforceable and your ticket will be dismissed, but the law passed and you shouldn’t be using a cell phone in a school zone.
I’m tired of people whining about being caught for “little things” that are illegal, or that mean ol’ City of Dallas is cracking down on them for “stuff everyone else does”.
Follow the law, and you won’t get ticketed/fined/locked up. Simple as that. And quit being crybabies about it.
Maybe he’ll think twice after he runs over some kid at a crosswalk because his phone conversation was more important than keeping his eyes on the road.