City of Chicago sued for illegally ticketing in-car yappers
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Luis @ Dec 21st 2007 10:46PM
Good man! Stick it to 'em
shackk @ Dec 22nd 2007 12:23AM
Just to clarify your post, no one has been solely arrested just for TWD. (talking while driving) They may have been pulled over for TWD and arrested for something in addition to it but not solely talking behind the wheel. Your statement of "claiming that arrests of citizens caught driving and talking were in fact illegal" is no where near correct. Claiming that tickets of citizens caught is correct. The actual law did not mandate signs be posted within Chicago's city limits and that is what brought the case up in the first place.
Yes the devil truly is in the details.
shuref00t @ Dec 22nd 2007 11:58AM
Did this guy run out of ambulances to chase after?
Hey, just to think of it, I don't think I ever saw a sign specifically stating I'm not allowed to drive with a blindfold on. I believe I shall keep this Mr. Blake Horwitz on retainer.
K @ Dec 22nd 2007 2:36PM
You know, NO ONE that actually lives in Chicago refers to it as Chi Town. It's pretty annoying actually. Try Chicagoland.
Matt @ Dec 22nd 2007 4:03PM
"Chicagoland" refers to the area including the city and suburbs, although usually used to refer to the suburbs specifically. This is a City of Chicago law. But you're right, nobody actually calls it "Chi-town".
Peter @ Jan 3rd 2008 2:18PM
First, NO ONE calls it Chicagoland except losers from the suburbs who want to think of themselves as living in the city.
Second, something seems wrong with this thread because there are only 5 comments now but there's another link for the same article but with many more comments (http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/21/city-of-chicago-sued-for-illegally-ticketing-in-car-yappers/#comments). In any case, in that thread someone posted the actual law - it was a Chicago ordinance to ban talking on a phone in your car, but that ordinance is ONLY valid per State law *IF* the City posts signs. The city didn't post signs yet. So the ordinance is not yet valid.