The Noise Pollution Flush Out

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  Posted by jbdesigner51 August 9, 2010 - Filed in Personal Journal - 692 views
  

  

  The Noise Pollution Flush Out

  With the ongoing efforts by States and cities in the country, people are continuing to use a cell phone while driving.  Drivers cannot seem to put the phone down and wait until they’ve reached their destination.  It seems that their phone call is more important than their life and the lives of others around them.

  You’re saying, “We already know this,” and I’m sure you do, but yesterday I was almost killed by a woman in a van talking on her cell phone.  She was within 10 feet of sending me to the morgue because she wasn’t paying attention to her driving and the stop sign that she blew.  Luckily, my horn and pipes caught her attention in time to come to a screeching stop.  Instead of saying sorry, or making some gesture to claim her fault, she reach down, picked up her cell phone, put it back on her ear and proceeded to go around me on her way home like nothing happened. I’m sure she had to get home in time for Jon and Kate Plus 8.

  I was furious, but I knew enough to collect my thoughts and keep my cool to ensure my own safety on the way home.  The last thing I needed was to lose control and endanger my own life.  All I kept thinking way that, “I need to get home, before I die.”  I did manage to make it home without doing just that. 

  I have come up with my own way to try and combat the use of cell phones in cars.  I call it: The Noise Pollution flush out.<!--[if gte mso 10]> <! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} --> <!--[endif]-->

  Here is how it works:

  I’m on my motorcycle driving past someone who is on their cell phone talking. I decide to align my tail pipes, which are straight pipes and loud, with their window.  Even if the window is closed it is still deafening.  I continue to rev the pipes and accelerate and deaccelerate into their car drowning out their call with my noise pollution.  The driver is forced to do one of two things:

  1. Get off the phone.
  2. Turn off the road onto a different road to get away from me.

  Either way, they are not around me and finally are paying attention to their driving.  I usually get a verbal response or the finger, but so what. So far it has seemed to work.  It may not be much, but it keep me just a little safer and makes them think about what they are doing.