Vigilante or friendly reminder??
It against the law to use the Handphone / mobile phone while driving in SG.
*To drivers… That’s why they invented Bluetooth handsfree & wired handsfree…
IMHO, I have no problem with the people who is on a call… But what they try to do… other than talking that I find alittle dangerous… e.g. SMSing, Using another hand to write down a note (Who is holding the steering wheel??)
There are many other things that are in that scope as well…. e.g. Putting on make up… eating / drinking…. smoking….
But currently… driving is banned by SG law cos someone got killed…
If I remember correctly… some joker was using his mobile whole driving… lost control of his car and slammed into a bus stop…
Sometimes I’d wished the authorties to look into the problem other than that 1 matter… Put a ban on all these things that will distract the driver… is using the mobile the only thing that does that?? I’ve seens the strangest things that people do while driving… trust me… bikes have a much higher profile… we can see things…
Anyway…. the ban did not really take effect / did not have much effect till recently… Anyway am not sure why as well…. Dun think anyone died… 
mean as it may sound but in SG sometimes the authorties does wait till then beofre doing something about anything…
Anyway… Whenever I see someone driving and using the mobile phone without his handsfree… I’ll just give him this signal…
Many a times… I get ignored… But when I honk… (I am using hella air horns)
That’ll get their attention and more… prob the cars around… then I will show him the sign again….
That’ll get them to stop…
So….
Vigilante or friendly reminder??
Some of my friends calls me a Vigilante….
September 30th, 2006 at 6:51 am
I think those that get honked by you will call you kepo… hahaha =p
But in my opinion, you are doing a good job. But probably you can sign up as a traffic police volunteer or something. Like that you would have ‘authority’ to remind those drivers. Dun want you kena ‘han tum’ wait =p
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:37 am
haha… Thought of it… VSC right? Thought about it before but kinda waste of time honestly.
1. Cos must do street patrol for about 1 year or so… you know the police guyz in white, who dun carry guns…
2. the police is so short handed… all the VSCs that I know have their public holidays burn… Duty…
3. There is a min number of hours that I have to serve / month… not otot… Also the higher the rank… the higher the number of hours…
4. The reg guyz in the station shows these VSC no respect as well… dirty jobs… VSC… Higher ranking VSC… you know what I mean…
So… VSC… Dun think so…
As for kenna huntum… First they gotta catch me first.