To the Publisher:
In regards to your writings in the paper, they are what the last of the real down-to-earth people feel.
I do construction and drive about 100 miles in every direction of Jefferson City.
The young people, 98 percent of which are young girls, pass me doing 80 mph and higher with a risk of rear-ending me or side-swiping me.
Every time I read the paper, the highway patrol announces victims went off the road to the right, or veered into oncoming traffic, killing the innocent occupant of another vehicle.
Mothers and fathers (mostly mothers) can’t wait to get their daughter a cell phone. They might as well just shoot them then. Would they rather them die burning up in an accident long and slow or see them in a vegetative state for a few years?
The parents are killing their own kids.
Every woman says “I want to be able to talk to my child.”
Well, 15 years and back the teachers or someone was always looking out for them. Poor excuse!
Imagine being one of our great and hard working highway patrol people and seeing this all the time. They drive home at night to try to get sleep for the next day and see a young loved one with pieces of missing parts from their bodies.
Someone needs to sue the cell phone companies for the addiction to phones like vaping.
I see at bus stops in the mornings, children, eight-years-old and up, on cell phones. Parents are not only killing their kids, but also subjecting them to the trash and online victims they are becoming. I always see at a restaurant a family — mom, dad, kids — all on their phones. Boy, that’s real “family time.”
And, let’s not forget the elderly I’ve seen going down the road. Their reactions are much slower and still they continue.
I think I’ve seen 25 18-wheeler drivers in the last six months on the phone, all while it’s illegal to phone and text in Missouri. It still happens.
Missouri government and Congress, What are you doing to save lives and where is MoDOT in this mayhem?
Missouri is 10 years behind in a lot of laws. In some states the highway patrol drive dump trucks and school busses handing out fines. Why should my vehicle insurance be so high over this?
People who drink and drive kill people and they’re in jail with phones and texting. It’s just “so what?”
So your kids throw a fit when the phone is taken away? At least you see them that night! Women, age 25-45, drive another 30 mph faster, so please don’t think I’m excluding anyone.
Sorry for the rambling, but in five years, my chances of dying on the road increases, all while my insurance premiums increase.
Thank you for your good columns Mr. Warden.
