Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Does your state have a hands free device law?

check out this one in Australia:

A man in Australia has pleaded guilty to a charge of talking on a hand-held cellphone while riding a horse.

The case involved a 30-year-old man in New South Wales, according to reports.

He and the horse were stopped by police after he was seen holding a cellphone to his ear while riding on a rural road in October, the Tenterfield Star reported.

The Mudgee Local Court magistrate judge said “under the road rules a horse is a vehicle…and he didn’t have a hands-free device fitted to the horse,” the paper reported.

"I've had someone charged with being drunk on a horse before - but just one," the judge said after admitting this case was a first for him.

The defense lawyer, Tim Cain, said his client was pleading guilty “because he concedes that the horse was in motion.”

He called the matter "trivial - in the extreme," according to the paper.

"Especially in a rural area where animals are a form of transport," Cain said.

The man was told the charge would be expunged from his record if he stays out of trouble for three months, the paper reported.

July 1 here.

Yes, but horses don't count.

Tennessee just passed a hands free law- - - -don't know how vigorously it's being enforced, but I really don't mind complying. I see far too many people riding around totally oblivious to their surroundings while engaged in talking of texting in traffic situations. If a call is that important, simply pull over and take care of business. Otherwise, let the danged thing go to voice mail! It isn't going to harelip the world if you don't read or respond to a text three microseconds after you receive it, either!
Jerry

I heard about a drunk guy in Oregon got a DUII when he was pushing his broke down motorcycle to a friends house so they could work on it. He had not been riding it.

I think so, but don't know why, when the ones charged with enforcing it are using cell phones, radios, radar, computers, with a pistol strapped on and a rifle/shotgun propped up front and center!

Cop on a power trip- - - - -probably some paranoid azzole who's afraid to step out in public without a badge, a gun, and permission from the goobermint to harass his fellow citizens!
Jerry

Cop be getting a front end loader of horse manure across his driveway 🤠

2nd year of ours, really isn't enforced. Now every just keeps their phone down in their lap so no one can see them text.

But folks are somehow still allowed to drive with their dog in their lap with its head hanging out the drivers side window.

We have one here in Minnesota, just not for the Thousands of Mini Vans driven by Somalis with their Federally funded transportation sticker on the side.
They can be on their phones all f'n day and drive down the interstate at 40.

Well, yes and no... Drivers under permit (just prior to full DL) nor ANY driver going through a work zone cannot use phones.. Texting is fully outlawed.. MN passed theirs and they've already issued about 700 tickets before the 1st year is out, IIRC.. Everybody ignores those laws... We see cars/trucks weaving in lanes and it's obvious their either texting or yakking away on their phones... While gnawing on a Big Mac at the same time..

I commute 70 + miles round trip daily. About half of it on the interstate. The stuff I have seen people (mostly young women) doing while driving is unbelievable.

One that really stands out was the girl steering with her knees while applying mascara with one hand, cigarette up next to the cracked window with the other and a bowl of cereal on her lap that she would take bites of in between trying to apply her make up in the rear view mirror. The worst part was she had two little kids that looked like 2 year old twin girls in the back seat. That one got called in.

Yes. And I understand the theory behind it. But that said so many new cars basically have a smartphone built in a screen in the dash. How much less distracting is that?

Rules is rules,

and you good upstanding, law abiding citizens surely aren't suggesting that we take the rules lightly.................are you?

Geno

We have such a law here in MJ, but it appears no cops ever enforce it. One LEO told me "It's my favorite type of ticket", however, I see plenty of drivers talking on their phones while driving (mostly construction types, as the rest have Blue Tooth) and plenty of heads down at traffic lights, i.e., texting.

I use Siri voice to text for most text messages, even use voice dictation for replies on this forum.


It’s not perfect on my Tn accent but it learns from me as it gets used more.

For some 80 yr old diabetic fat fingered feeble fûckstick that get his rocks off on correcting someone’s typo or spelling, their old dumbass would be tits up in a ditch, having crashed their three wheeled Schwinn tricycle in the trailer park lagoon.

Just imagine Siri trying to understand and type for some Geechee or Gulla speaker from the real south!

Would make understanding you TN folks easy.

Geno

In Ontario its called ‘Distracted Driving” and just like careless driving it is whatever a cop decides it is.

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VarmintGuy

I don’t know if Texas does or not.