Vehicle registration records should be freely available to the public...

That's what the motherfucker tried in the first place.

It's not fast, and you don't wanna be taking hairpin corners at 80mph, but my reflexes are good and the brakes are well-maintained. Only thing that saved me. Then he went on to do the same fucking thing to a couple of other people. This guy was a menace, he knew it, and he absolutely was not going to answer for it.

This is slightly related to my plan to make traffic/HWY patrol cops obsolete:

Everyone gets a bar-code scanner. And everyone has a bar-code on their license plates. If you see someone do something stupid/dangerous/illegal you scan them.

A Big Computer tracks the scans. If you rack up enough scans, you lose your license. As a control, though, if you wind up making an unusually high number of scans of other drivers, the Big Computer realizes that maybe the problem you have isn't with other drivers--and you lose your license.

It would be a lot like Rep War.

And do what?

Say somebody gets pissed at me because they think I've somehow "wronged" them or haven't been a "courteous enough" driver and they show up at my front door, ranting and raving.

I'll close the door and call the cops. If the loon at the door gets too much out of hand, they might even get a shotgun shoved in their face.

double post

triple!

quad!

Four times he says it!

Talk about a board hiccup!

Worst part is we can't even obtain this information on the black market anymore. Anytime one of those people perform an unauthorized lookup, it raises a flag now.

Better to do what you did, vent on Wordforge about another asshole driver. You don't really want a license plate being all that's necessary to find out every bit of info about yourself or anybody else.

We've been the victim of identity theft twice, I have no desire to make a third time that much easier.

A better approach would be to install a mega-phone under the hood and share your driving recommendations in real time.

What, like tracking someone down or harassing them through their employer because they didn't like their driving?

You wanna say you're just blowing off steam with this thread, fine. But if you really mean everything you've posted, then you're pretty damned stupid. From what I've noticed, you seem to have this huge blind spot in your reasoning where you can't imagine ever things ending badly for you, or circumstances becoming too much for you to handle. It's either arrogance or naivete, but either way, it's not good for you or anyone depending on you.

You haven't been here long enough to know him like most of us do.

He's just blowing steam.

Or a machine gun board fart

No.

In theory, letting his employer know that he is being represented by a reckless road menace of a truck driver who is placing other peoples' lives in jeopardy. I'm not exaggerating when I say this. You should have seen this asshole.

In practice, nothing.

Uncle Albert should get a special award for not using a cellphone while driving.

Shit, I do it every day.

I find it amusing that he takes those warning to not use cellphone while driving, seriously.

We all know that people do it all the time. And that not all of them drive fucked up.

UA, you are a good lad.

Actually, what I'm doing is practicing what I preach. Whether or not I think I can do it without hurting anyone, I can't ask the dumb shit who just tried to sideswipe me with his Honda this morning to hang the fuck up and watch the damned road unless I'm avoiding distractions myself.

Shove it up your ass.

You know I would laugh my ass off (indeed, I would have to pull over so I wouldn't be a hazard) if you did get caught and fined. Some places actually prohibit it, enforce the ban, and levy fines.

Dude, in NY/NJ, you will see cops on cell phones while driving. And its real easy to put the phone down when a cop comes by.

The real deal is that you have nobody to call other than your wife. You probably only have 2 numbers programmed into your phone. Wife and job.

Not true. I've got your momma on speed dial under the heading "last resort booty call."

My moms pretty hot for a 75 yr old.

(Momma jokes like that work when you;re a teen and the mother in question is under 40 MILF)

She'd better be, with the rates she charges.

So that makes 3 numbers. Dang!

They don't have unmarked cop cars in your area? They use them a lot around here.

Unmarked cop cars never do traffic stops out here. Are you kidding me?! For talking on a cellphone while driving. Getthefuckouttahere!

Maybe it's not a big problem where you live, or they don't consider it a problem. Some places cops do fine you for using a cell phone while driving.

You have to consider that, in Mewa's world, "driving" means crawling along at 2mph in bumper-to-bumper gridlock. Not nearly so risky to distract yourself under those conditions.

Could be a factor. Around here the typical scenario is zipping along at 45 MPH for a couple miles, then running into a crowded goat-fuck of an intersection. There is little in-between, so when you combine rapid and sudden stopping with oncoming cars (turning usually) folks camped out in the turn lane every 50 feet, people bullshitting on cell-phones does not help the situation.

If I ever get hit and have witnesses proving the driver was talking on a cell-phone I'll press the issue to their insurance company, the court, whoever it takes to slam them.

I'm getting an indash DVD player next.

Shit, I'd do that if I was just one of the witnesses.