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We're sure somewhere Drew Curtis's head is exploding over this one: submitted for your perusal, one California State Senator Carole Migden -- former voter for a state bill that fines people for using their cellphones while driving -- rear-ended her state-issued SUV into a Honda sedan on Highway 12 in Solano County, today. While on her phone. The driver of the Honda was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, although the most painful aspect of this story is surely the jaws-of-life-biting irony. Then again, at least we know Midgen's heart is in the right place; like the cleaned-up drug addict invited to tell schoolkids to stay off the dope, surely this morning more than others Midgen felt all the more confident in having voted the way she did.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/21/senator-whos-voted-on-anti-cellphone-driving-laws-crashes-car/

She's trying to show everyone how important it is to have this law :)

LOL, you couldn't ask for a better setup than this. :thumbup:

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Don't do as I do, do as I say. :rolleyes:

She's the perfect hypocrite. Hopefully she shows a lot of remorse.

The governor of NJ, on the other hand, I have to say really impressed me with his apology, full acknowledgment that he set a terrible example not wearing a seatbelt in the accident that almost killed him recently.

Don't do as I do, do as I say. :rolleyes:

She's the perfect hypocrite. Hopefully she shows a lot of remorse.

The governor of NJ, on the other hand, I have to say really impressed me with his apology, full acknowledgment that he set a terrible example not wearing a seatbelt in the accident that almost killed him recently.

Unlike Princess (by that time, ex-Princess) Diana and her boyfriend, at least he survived TO apologize. Diana and Fedayed were probably the two classic examples of NOT wearing belts. (And that omission has never been really explained by her bodyguard, whose JOB it was to make sure she was protected).

Hypocricy at it's very best. She should be fined double, just kidding but hopefully this is a lesson on her part...

Best way to learn is to learn it the hard way...

I wouldn't call her a hypocrite. Who knew if she had a car with bluetooth, and the SUV didn't have it at the time? People make mistakes, and she made one. Who knows if she did it all the time. At least she didn't hide the fact that she made a mistake.

She can further push for that bill with justification. Should she just kill the bill for legislation just because she made the mistake? Should she vote not to approve it just because she fell victim to her own mistake? Absolutely not. She learned her lesson, and so have we.

Yes, she may have made a mistake, but that doesn't change the fact that she's a hypocrite. She stood up and said "this is unsafe and no one should be allowed to do it" and then did it herself. She is the very DEFINITION of a hypocrite:

a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

Best way to learn is to learn it the hard way...

I wouldn't call her a hypocrite. Who knew if she had a car with bluetooth, and the SUV didn't have it at the time? People make mistakes, and she made one. Who knows if she did it all the time. At least she didn't hide the fact that she made a mistake.

She can further push for that bill with justification. Should she just kill the bill for legislation just because she made the mistake? Should she vote not to approve it just because she fell victim to her own mistake? Absolutely not. She learned her lesson, and so have we.

I agree about someone who has no sin casting the first stone, but it is difficult IMO, to have a lot of sympathy for someone like this. She herself voted, as a legislator, KNOWING what she was voting on, to make it a public offense. It was like Bill Clinton's famous statement "'I did NOT have sex with that woman" and then getting caught literally with his pants down.

She's stupid for even letting anybody know she was on her cellphone, since she rear-ended somebody, I highly doubt the other driver was watching her before the accident. The last thing I would do if I was in an accident, my fault or not, would be to let anybody know I was on my cellphone at the time

God, I love irony...:D :D :D :D :D

I wouldn't call her a hypocrite. Who knew if she had a car with bluetooth, and the SUV didn't have it at the time? People make mistakes, and she made one.

Talking on the phone while driving requires a conscious decision to perform a dangerous act. I don't consider that a mistake.

What she did is the definition of hypocrisy.

hahaha owned.

Don't do as I do, do as I say. :rolleyes:

She's the perfect hypocrite. Hopefully she shows a lot of remorse.

The governor of NJ, on the other hand, I have to say really impressed me with his apology, full acknowledgment that he set a terrible example not wearing a seatbelt in the accident that almost killed him recently.


LOL!!

~Josh

Hypocrite:thumbdn:

Hypocrite
I'm not so sure if it was blatent Hypocricy or just the widespread opinion of so many politicians that laws just don't apply to them.....even the ones THEY themselves helped make.

I'm not so sure if it was blatent Hypocricy or just the widespread opinion of so many politicians that laws just don't apply to them.....even the ones THEY themselves helped make.

Yup that's exactly what it is Do as I say not as I do

lol this is complete irony man..... she's an idiot

Ironic.
Also she may have been tailgating. :egads:

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Repeat after me kids: "Don't do what I just did":p