Phone Jammer Vigilate
Discussion
Maybe this highlights the difficulties in the enforcement of mobile telephone use while driving and perhaps the need to make the penalty for doing so more impactful.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
'Vigilante motorist' faces fine after using mobile signal jammer to keep others off their phones
An American driver is facing a $48,000 fine after using a mobile signal jammer in his car to block motorists around him from using their phones on the road.
Jason Humphreys reportedly used the jammer from the back seat of his Toyota Highlander for around two years before being caught by Florida police.
The 60-year-old said that he used the jammer – which transmits radio signals that interfere with mobile phones – because he was ‘fed up’ with watching others use their phones on the road.
Although it’s not illegal to make a phone call while driving in Florida, motorists are only allowed to text when stationary.
Police cottoned on to Humphrey’s vigilantism after a mobile phone operators (Metro PCS) reported interference to their phone towers’ signal during commuting hours.
Agents from the Federal Communications Commission tracked down the blocking signals to Humphrey’s SUV, with their report stating that as they pulled the car over they lost contact on their police radios.
“He indicated on the day that we stopped him that he was pretty much fed up with watching cell phone usage while people were driving,” Larry McKinnon, a spokesperson for Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office told ABC Action News.
Unfortunately for Humphreys, mobile phone jammers are banned in the US because they can interfere with devices used by ambulances and other emergency responders.
“The moral issue is that it's just very dangerous,” said McKinnon.
Humphreys now has 30 days to pay the $48,000 fine or file a written response with the FCC.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
'Vigilante motorist' faces fine after using mobile signal jammer to keep others off their phones
An American driver is facing a $48,000 fine after using a mobile signal jammer in his car to block motorists around him from using their phones on the road.
Jason Humphreys reportedly used the jammer from the back seat of his Toyota Highlander for around two years before being caught by Florida police.
The 60-year-old said that he used the jammer – which transmits radio signals that interfere with mobile phones – because he was ‘fed up’ with watching others use their phones on the road.
Although it’s not illegal to make a phone call while driving in Florida, motorists are only allowed to text when stationary.
Police cottoned on to Humphrey’s vigilantism after a mobile phone operators (Metro PCS) reported interference to their phone towers’ signal during commuting hours.
Agents from the Federal Communications Commission tracked down the blocking signals to Humphrey’s SUV, with their report stating that as they pulled the car over they lost contact on their police radios.
“He indicated on the day that we stopped him that he was pretty much fed up with watching cell phone usage while people were driving,” Larry McKinnon, a spokesperson for Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office told ABC Action News.
Unfortunately for Humphreys, mobile phone jammers are banned in the US because they can interfere with devices used by ambulances and other emergency responders.
“The moral issue is that it's just very dangerous,” said McKinnon.
Humphreys now has 30 days to pay the $48,000 fine or file a written response with the FCC.
America's great when it comes to risk.
I could drive in Florida talking on my mobile phone constantly on the 'free-way', over and under-taking every piece of s
t vehicle which would spectacularly fail an MOT, yet a passenger^ in the car wouldn't be able to have an open container of alcohol.
^Assuming Florida's one of the states that doesn't allow passengers to do this!
I could drive in Florida talking on my mobile phone constantly on the 'free-way', over and under-taking every piece of s
t vehicle which would spectacularly fail an MOT, yet a passenger^ in the car wouldn't be able to have an open container of alcohol. ^Assuming Florida's one of the states that doesn't allow passengers to do this!
Ha, yeah, dumb Americans. Whatever next? I bet, within a year, they'll have diluted their entire road safety message to little more than the speed limit, ignoring entirely the drunk, uninsured or plain incompetent and concentrating instead on those who do little more than disregard an ill conceived rule which was out of date the minute it was written over half a century ago. They're so crazy, I bet they'd even automate the law enforcement process using cameras and computerised fines. Thank God we live in a better place than that...
Simon.
Simon.
ferrariF50lover said:
Ha, yeah, dumb Americans. Whatever next? I bet, within a year, they'll have diluted their entire road safety message to little more than the speed limit, ignoring entirely the drunk, uninsured or plain incompetent and concentrating instead on those who do little more than disregard an ill conceived rule which was out of date the minute it was written over half a century ago. They're so crazy, I bet they'd even automate the law enforcement process using cameras and computerised fines. Thank God we live in a better place than that...
Simon.
Yet we have fewer fatal collisions per KM travelled and fewer deaths per 100,000 residents. Darker = more proportional deaths. And with a few anomalies, ours have been reducing year on year. Simon.
La Liga said:
et we have fewer fatal collisions per KM travelled and fewer deaths per 100,000 residents. Darker = more proportional deaths. And with a few anomalies, ours have been reducing year on year.
i'm moving to the big white bits, my insurance will go down, no crashes with other cars there What an idiot. What about people using integrated hands free kits? I think he caused more danger as people would have taken their eyes of the road for longer as they continuosly tried to redial. And the emergency services losing radio communications could also have severe and tragic consequences.
Fair play it is an interesting idea and I can understand the frustration. There are already far far too many laws/restrictions that apply to motorists that are simply not policed effectively & fairly as they require real humans to do the work so you can see why someone would want to take the law into their own hands.
That said $46k fine is a fking ridiculous penalty, there is no way the fine should be that high. Wouldn't it be ironic if the driver got the same fine for if he had been on his phone.
That said $46k fine is a f
king ridiculous penalty, there is no way the fine should be that high. Wouldn't it be ironic if the driver got the same fine for if he had been on his phone.
Dairymilk said:
Maybe this highlights the difficulties in the enforcement of mobile telephone use while driving and perhaps the need to make the penalty for doing so more impactful.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
'Vigilante motorist' faces fine after using mobile signal jammer to keep others off their phones
PMSL.http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...
'Vigilante motorist' faces fine after using mobile signal jammer to keep others off their phones
It is not illegal to use a mobile phone whilst driving a motor vehicle, either here, within the EU, or in the states.
Why the fook do you seem to be supporting somebody breaking the law, Mr Callaghan ?
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