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From: jad@dayton.dhdsc.mn.org (J. Deters)
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Subject: Re: Cellular Phone & 911 - two replies
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Date: 9 Jun 89 16:14:10 GMT
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In article <telecom-v09i0190m06@vector.dallas.tx.us> Richard Childers
<avsd!childers@decwrl.dec.com> writes:

>>(story about a reckless driver and a call to the CHP deleted)
>Yup, a real emergency there.
>>(more story deleted)
>Talk about juvenile power trips. You could have waited a few minutes to
>get past him. This sounds like an infantile power trip.
>Instant gratification, indeed.
>-- richard

Around here, the state patrol advertises 911 as the number to dial
to report drunk and/or dangerous drivers.  They have appeared on the
local news saying how cellular phones have helped catch drunk drivers.
(Our state is in the middle of a 'drunk-driver crackdown').

I think that malicious drivers should be reported, and there is no
way to do anything about it once you are off the road.  Cellular
phones are great for just this sort of thing.  If you want to drive
like a jerk, cellular phones give you more incentive not to.  Of
course, now everyone is going to start calling in speeders, too.  :-(

-john