Transport Sec Ray LaHood: Name Change Proposal (To Ray LaDumbass)
Distracted drivers make me steam, but Mike Riggs at reason.com is right about what an idiot Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is:
Which is more of a distraction while driving: holding a phone up to your ear, or having a stranger pull up behind/beside you and lay on the horn for no apparent reason?
The latter is what Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood does. He told D.C. radio station WTOP that he likes to tool around D.C. on weekends and lay on the horn when he spots a driver on a cell phone:
LaHood says it's his way of "taking personal responsibility" to reduce driver distractions.
It would be a public service if somebody painted the word MORON really big on all sides of this man's car (backwards on the hood so other drivers can see him coming in the rear-view mirror).
It would be an even greater public service if he were caught with three hookers and a goat so he could quit his job to "spend more time with (his) family" (even if he doesn't even have a family).
I don't know for sure about DC, but in NYC it's illegal to use your horn except in case of imminent danger.
clinky at February 29, 2012 1:10 AM
Family? We know he's got a son.
Mark W. Bennett at February 29, 2012 6:37 AM
He'd probably get a ticket for agressive driving for doing that in Texas.
ahw at February 29, 2012 7:50 AM
So, the United States Secretary of Transportation has nothing better to do no weekends than "drive around ... in Washington ... kind of honking" at people he sees driving while on a cell phone?
If running the Department of Transportation leaves him enough time for such idiocy, then perhaps he's done us a favor and identified a department that can be cut completely or at least reduced to the level of an agency.
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How do you "kind of" honk at someone?
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LaHood thinks beeping at already-distracted drivers is "taking personal responsibility" to reduce driver distractions?
Why is it his "personal responsibility" to take?
If only there were some kind of government agency charged with policing the roads.
We could give them special training, uniforms, and have them patrol the roads in clearly-marked vehicles; and even equip the vehicles with flashing lights and noisy sirens to get the attention of drivers being cited for infractions.
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At least he's not driving around in his pirate honking at people. That could be dangerous.
Conan the Grammarian at February 29, 2012 9:33 AM
Who's more distracted, the driver talking on a cell phone while driving or the driver looking for him while driving?
Conan the Grammarian at February 29, 2012 9:41 AM
What do you have against hookers and goats?
Conan the Grammarian at February 29, 2012 10:47 AM
Hmm.. last I checked, if you rear-end someone, regardless of who could best have prevented the accident, it's considered YOUR fault. I drive a 1997 rustbucket.. he's got a lot more to lose than I do. Tailgating me and leaning on his horn could be hazardous to his driving record and insurance rates.
Doc in NY at March 4, 2012 2:24 PM
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