Millennial Distracted with Texting Rear-ends Marked Trooper on Beltway

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Title: Millennial Distracted with Texting Rear-ends Marked Trooper on Beltway

Date: 08-25-2017 11:50 AM

Summary: A Maryland State Trooper was struck from behind by a distracted driver on I-495 during rush hour traffic this morning.

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[PeoplesElbow]

Throwing the millennial tag in there isn't exactly fair as people of all ages do that. Yesterday I was beside a minivan and I saw the driver and passenger both looking down at their phones while driving down 235 right near the RT4 intersection. I laid on my horn and I think I made the driver drop the phone on the floor.

 

[Toxick]

I laid on my horn and I think I made the driver drop the phone on the floor.

Startling an already distracted driver.


What could possibly go wrong?

 

[b23hqb]

Throwing the millennial tag in there isn't exactly fair as people of all ages do that. Yesterday I was beside a minivan and I saw the driver and passenger both looking down at their phones while driving down 235 right near the RT4 intersection. I laid on my horn and I think I made the driver drop the phone on the floor.

Yup. Millennials have no monopoly on stupid. Today, age or sex have nothing to do with it. Just stupidity with their cell phones.

 

[PsyOps]

Yup. Millennials have no monopoly on stupid. Today, age or sex have nothing to do with it. Just stupidity with their cell phones.

Stupidity and selfishness.

 

[Wishbone]

Yup. Millennials have no monopoly on stupid. Today, age or sex have nothing to do with it. Just stupidity with their cell phones.

They may not have a monopoly but they really seem to have perfected it at times.

 

[b23hqb]

They may not have a monopoly but they really seem to have perfected it at times.

Well, that Darwin Award has been cited many times in the past decades a lot before the current crop.......

 

[Chris0nllyn]

They may not have a monopoly but they really seem to have perfected it at times.

They got it from somewhere. Millennials don't hatch from mystery eggs.

 

[Wishbone]

They got it from somewhere. Millennials don't hatch from mystery eggs.

True... just dumb ass leftist parents.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

True... just dumb ass leftist parents.

I blame Woodstock!

 

[Wishbone]

I blame Woodstock!

As I said

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Startling an already distracted driver.


What could possibly go wrong?

I looked at it as doing the person stopped at the RT 4 light 50 yards away a favor.

 

[officeguy]

So the trooper did a swoop&squat maneuver and it worked.

 

[3CATSAILOR]

Throwing the millennial tag in there isn't exactly fair as people of all ages do that. Yesterday I was beside a minivan and I saw the driver and passenger both looking down at their phones while driving down 235 right near the RT4 intersection. I laid on my horn and I think I made the driver drop the phone on the floor.

You are right. Most drivers from 16 to 60 are addicted to their cell phones. I've never seen anything like it. The 42K the County Commissioners gave to the Sheriff's Office is a joke. I guess I missed the part of it stating it would go toward "texting", a part of distracted driving. Or, do we just continue with the thinning of the heard?

 

[b23hqb]

I blame Woodstock!

Woodstock had cell phone issue? Bad to no reception got the crowd stirred up? Not enough charging stations?