Selective Cell laws

Did you see what the Terminator did the other day? A law signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday will require those teens below the age of 18 to put down all cell phones and other electronic devices while driving. But older drivers will be able to use hands-free devices while minors won't enjoy that luxury. It's a crazy message to send to teens, saying that adults can cause damage and death while chatting on their stupid phones, but because teens are even more addicted to cell phones than are adults, they can't.
Teenagers who break the law an chat while driving will be fined $20 for the first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses. This makes California the latest of the 15 states to banning the use of cell phones for teenage drivers. many other states are considering similar action, but few of them are interested in applying that law to adult drivers. Though teenage drivers always (even before cell phones were around) have always had a higher rate of accidents than adult drivers, the idea that a law banning cell driving is only necessary for kids shows how badly the adults are addicted to those phones. They can't even regulate themselves or set a proper example for young drivers. The phones are more important to them than saving property and lives. Sigh..another example of the ME generation attitude so prevalent today.
From the "If he likes work that much he must really be sick" department is news that a sick Canadian bakery worker has been fined $970 for ignoring an order to stay at home until he recovered from symptoms of salmonella poisoning, medical officials said on Thursday.
Health inspectors in Edmonton, Alberta, had told Adam Duerr to stay at home until tests showed he had recovered. But Eager Beaver Adam, 20, failed to have himself tested for proof of his fitness to go back to work and went back to work.
After being issued a summons by police, he appeared in court the following day to be sentenced for his too industrious behavior. In addition, the bakery was fined more than a thousand dollars for Adam's bad work habit. Gerry Predy, the medical officer at the local health authority, said the case was highly unusual. "We almost never have people who disobey the order to stay off work,".
If I ever go back to work you have the option of having me declared insane, and committing me to a mental institution or shooting me outright.