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View Poll Results: Your most distracting habbit behind the wheel?
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Mobile Phone use (talking, texting, etc)
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Changing cd's or fumbling with the radio
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15.56% |
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tending to children/spouse
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10.00% |
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Other
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30.00% |
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08-07-2011, 11:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary, Ab
Posts: 2,835
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Distracted driving?
Personally, I'm bad for it. What about you? What is your worst distracting habbit behind the wheel?
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08-07-2011, 11:03 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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Spotting deer etc in fields...
I just can't stop looking for them.
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08-07-2011, 11:23 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 7,268
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i dont have any. im perfect. 
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08-07-2011, 11:28 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Ardrossan
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Looking at stuff, thinking "that'd be a nice picture!". Or fumbling with CDs/the radio. Though I don't need to take my eyes off the road to change the station..
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08-07-2011, 11:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary, Ab
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personally, I'm bad for texting. I do it all the time, getting better at it. I try to only text at red lights now... better, but not perfect.
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08-07-2011, 11:44 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: CNP
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Looking and fumbling on the seat or floor for my hands free gear.
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08-07-2011, 11:58 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,131
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Hot Chicks!! especially during summer.
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08-08-2011, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 1,844
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mooseknuckle
Hot Chicks!! especially during summer.
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X2.
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08-08-2011, 09:30 AM
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Gone Hunting
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Between Bodo and a hard place
Posts: 20,168
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Dozing off while "Yes Dear" is talking.....Very dangerous.  
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I'm not lying!!! You are just experiencing it differently. 
It isn't a question of who will allow me, but who will stop me.. Ayn Rand
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08-08-2011, 01:32 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Raymond
Posts: 1,485
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Redfrog
Dozing off while "Yes Dear" is talking.....Very dangerous. |
Ha ha ya that's the way it is with me too. She can talk the entire trip and as long as I nod my head Im ok.
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Hunting is APPLIED Conservation
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08-08-2011, 06:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Sherwood Forest
Posts: 5,176
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Distracted Driving
1st Place- having a 3 almost 4 year old daughter and a 8 almost 9 year old son sitting beside me in a Rc 1/2 ton.
Do I need to say any more about this sibling rivalry issue? Just did 2700 km vacation. Man I need a vacation from that.
2nd place- looking in the fields for deer, moose, elk or whatever.
I drove through dinosaur prov park and instead of looking at the scenery I was automatically looking for a deer or pronghorn to be standing there amongst it all. Maybe even a rattler.
You can take the game out of the hunter but not the hunter out of the game I say!
I would say I handle it all very well, I've been driving for 23 years and have been in the ditch more than once in my youth. I would say I learned how to handle a truck through the school of hard luck. And stupididty!
I'm not stupid any more. Something happened when I turned 31.
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08-08-2011, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Morrin alberta
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I rolled my $70,000 truck while responding to a text message ontop of tolman bridge.......so I would have to say phone use while driving 
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08-08-2011, 07:17 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Red Deer
Posts: 2,680
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pickrel pat
i dont have any. im perfect. |
Me too!
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08-08-2011, 10:24 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary, Ab
Posts: 2,835
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dacotensis
I'm not stupid any more. Something happened when I turned 31.
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Child Birth?
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08-08-2011, 10:29 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Fort McMurray
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My girlfriend noticed when we stopped at a red light in Edmonton that all vehicles around us (about 6) had a driver that was talking or texting on their phone except for 1!
That was scary...
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Nothing gets my heart pumping like: "There's a deer!"
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08-09-2011, 11:00 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kimberley B.C.
Posts: 5,234
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My stepson got airborn for 80 feet,narrowly missing a power pole while having a sexual experiance with his hot girlfriend at 90 kph.
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08-09-2011, 11:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Uh, guess? :)
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I had a fun experience a while ago.... driving alongside a cop who was looking at his computer while driving the Deerfoot. I'm surprised he wasn't having a few shots of vodka as well since laws obviously don't apply to him.
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08-09-2011, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: medicine hat
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looking for wildlife for sure. robin just loses her mind driving with me. i keep reminding her that i drive more miles in a month than most people do all year and i havent hit anything yet. not talking on the phone is going to be an adjustment, but i refuse to text while driving. i have 3 kids driving now and theyve been warned.....if i catch em texting while driving that their phone WILL fit in their nose. if i catch em drinking and driving, i will punish them worse than the law ever could.
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08-09-2011, 11:46 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Grande Cache
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherpeak
My stepson got airborn for 80 feet,narrowly missing a power pole while having a sexual experiance with his hot girlfriend at 90 kph.
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Now thats a good girl! god bless her cotton socks! lol jk
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08-09-2011, 11:49 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Uh, guess? :)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherpeak
My stepson got airborn for 80 feet,narrowly missing a power pole while having a sexual experiance with his hot girlfriend at 90 kph.
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And he tells you about it? The kid has no edit button. LOL
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08-09-2011, 12:32 PM
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Gone Hunting
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Between Bodo and a hard place
Posts: 20,168
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Okotokian
And he tells you about it? The kid has no edit button. LOL
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It's not bragging if it's true.
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It isn't a question of who will allow me, but who will stop me.. Ayn Rand
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08-09-2011, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kimberley B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Redfrog
It's not bragging if it's true. |
Oh,it`s true,happened 2 miles from my house.I saw the trail they blazed through the bush with the car when I went to the scene.
By the way,the boy is still intact.
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08-09-2011, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherpeak
Oh,it`s true,happened 2 miles from my house.I saw the trail they blazed through the bush with the car when I went to the scene.
By the way,the boy is still intact.
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Hope she had her teeth out...lmao....I'm sorry...I couldn't resist.
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08-09-2011, 04:28 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherpeak
My stepson got airborn for 80 feet,narrowly missing a power pole while having a sexual experiance with his hot girlfriend at 90 kph.
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Don't drink and park, accidents cause people!
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08-11-2011, 12:13 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary, Ab
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Good conversation.
Just today, I saw an accident that had to be a) sleep related or b) distraction c) medical.
You only go off a perfectly straight road for one of those reasons, providing mechanical failure hasn't happened!
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08-18-2011, 05:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary, Ab
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2 weeks until the the laws take affect. Are you ready to change? or just don't care and will take the $172 ticket?
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08-18-2011, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ft. McMurray
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looking for animals on the side of the road, and talking on my phone, for sure.
I do a lot of business while driving from one site to another , and it is not good!
Cat
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Anytime I figure I've got this long range thing figured out, I just strap into the sling and irons and remind myself that I don't! 
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08-18-2011, 10:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: GP,AB
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On my way home there is a cute chick in tight shorts who has a windshield crack repair tent set up alongside the road. VERY distracting!
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08-18-2011, 11:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Viking
Posts: 358
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You don't have "checking crops" on the list. I drove into the ditch the other day while admiring my neighbor's wheat…
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08-19-2011, 12:18 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alberta
Posts: 24,070
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Quote:
Originally Posted by countrykid
You don't have "checking crops" on the list. I drove into the ditch the other day while admiring my neighbor's wheat… |
Haha lol! 
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors cereal....
My biggest distraction is my playful wife, always seems to yank that nose or ear hair when there is a semi oncoming 
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Only dead fish go with the flow. The rest use their brains in life.
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought..... 
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