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Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

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    Thumbs down Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    Motorcyclist cited with texting while driving
    FREE PRESS STAFF REPORT • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

    If the allegation holds up, sending his boss a text message while driving his Suzuki Boulevard Cruiser motorcycle will cost Joshua Kelly, 19, $156 and two points on his driver's license.


    A state trooper on U.S. 7 in Waltham on Friday afternoon saw Kelly driving with one hand and "looking down," police said.

    The trooper saw him hit the buttons on his cell phone with his thumb before stopping Kelly. Kelly admitted he had been texting, police said.

    Texting while driving became illegal in Vermont on June 1.

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    ROTFLMAO!

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    I don't see the humor.

    I wish they would start cracking down on all texting, talking etc.

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    My girlfriend tells me all the cool people text while riding.

    I'm going for the 1up, next time I post will be from my phone while up on one wheel.

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    Twitter: Just saw a cop behind me, hope he doesn't see me txting....
    Twitter: So I got busted cop is writing me a ticket
    Twitter: Cops are such deuche bags, so what, I was updating my twitter while he was talking to me, who ^%$ cares? It doesn't hurt him!?!?
    Twitter: Crashed cause I was texting, this may be my last twitter....

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    Although it is stupid & illegal I sort of have to give props to the kid for being able to do it .

    I would probably drop my phone and run over it with my own rear tire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TIMMYDUCK View Post
    Although it is stupid & illegal I sort of have to give props to the kid for being able to do it .

    I would probably drop my phone and run over it with my own rear tire.
    The most common phone use on wheels i have seen this summer was using the gps option on the phone no names though my68camaro

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    Does using a GPS feature on a smartphone count as texting ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BluGixxer
    Does using a GPS feature on a smartphone count as texting ?
    unfortunatly it probably will...

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    Quote Originally Posted by WordTooYoMamma View Post
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    unfortunatly it probably will...
    I don't get it...I use the gps features on my phone on the bike all the time, it's called navigation and my phone is sealed in a pelican case. Are you guys holding the phone with one hand trying to get a GPS signal?

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    Re: Vermont motorcyclist busted for texting while riding.

    THANKS FOR THE NO NAMES PART ...I still text on my phone while riding ....too hard to hear people talking thru my helmet expecially at 90 mph lol

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