{"id":2517,"date":"2004-02-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2021-06-02T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:34:14","slug":"dial-22824-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/02\/10\/dial-22824-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Dial 22824-22*<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    To enfore New York’s cell phone ban, an assemblyman wants to set up a hotline<\/a> to turn lawbreakers in. As described in Tech Live<\/i><\/a>‘s report:
“It’s illegal in New York state to use a cellphone while driving, but studies show people still do it. Brooklyn Assemblyman Feliz Ortiz wants the state Department of Motor Vehicles to set up a public hotline so motorists can turn in offenders. Offenders would get a warning the first time and face fines afterward. False reports would be fined, too.”
    So, if you’re on the road in New York and see someone illegally using a cell phone, you are obligated to call some emergency number on your own cell phone. I can imagine the phone call now. “Hello, you’ve reached the Cell Phone Whistleblower Hotline. Ha ha, we caught you.”
    Some call it law enforcement. Others call it irony. A certain Mon Calamarian Admiral would call it a trap.
    *<\/b>22824-22 is my pun on “CATCH-22”. As if it were a phone number, get it?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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