# A new achievement in distracted driving! **URL:** \ **Category:** Safety\ **Created:** [April 3, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853 "2019-04-03T13:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/1 "2019-04-03T13:02:58Z")
[https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/04/20190403\_me\_hr2\_return\_-\_steve.mp3](https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2019/04/20190403_me_hr2_return_-_steve.mp3) from Wednesday’s _Morning Edition_, 26 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/2 "2019-04-03T13:36:08Z")
That woman has _nothing_ on Florida Woman. > **[Female driver shaving genitals causes accident in Florida](http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/288870)** > > A 37-year-old woman in Florida has been charged with reckless driving after causing an accident because she was distracted as she shaved her pubic hair. ---
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/3 "2019-04-03T13:38:04Z")
the visual edition. > **[Distracted driver had goat on lap, cell phone in hand, but no driver's...](https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/distracted-driver-had-goat-on-lap-cell-phone-in-hand/article_e048894e-550a-11e9-82f7-7bd6031d23bd.html)** > > Marlborough police say they stopped a woman Monday who was using a cell phone while driving with a baby goat on her lap and no license. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/4 "2019-04-03T13:40:26Z")
I haven’t listened to @RandomTroll’s MP3 file, but I’m pretty sure that’s the same story. There was only one story on NPR this morning about a distracted driver. ---
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/5 "2019-04-03T13:41:49Z")
Oops, couldn’t open here. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/6 "2019-04-03T13:45:01Z")
Florida doesn’t get ALL the oddities (a LOT, but not all!) > **[MSP: Man was watching porn while driving before fatal crash](http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/msp-man-was-watching-porn-while-driving-before-fatal-crash)** > > The Michigan State Police Department said Tuesday that a man died after rolling his car on the ramp from the Lodge to I-75 was watching pornography while driving. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/7 "2019-04-03T13:52:23Z")
For a short time, I employed a realtor who confessed that he used to read the newspaper while driving on the Florida Turnpike. When he answered his phone and texted while driving through South Florida traffic with me in the car, I fired him. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/8 "2019-04-03T13:58:24Z")
> [@Whitey](#): > > When he answered his phone and texted while driving through South Florida traffic with me in the car, I fired him. As well you should! At the very least, you could refuse to ride with him but that practice showed more than his lack of driving skills! I’ve driven past people reading on the highway but it has been at least 20 years since the last. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/9 "2019-04-03T14:00:24Z")
My mother used to read books at stop lights, but I haven’t seen her do that in about 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![hiker16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@hiker16](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hiker16)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/10 "2019-04-03T16:32:39Z")
Replicated in the opening chapter of Carl Hiaassen’s “Razor Girl”. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/11 "2019-04-03T22:00:34Z")
![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/6/6c3dbea072848a827b16bd90b78db6523a629b41.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![wentwest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wentwest/32/6073_2.png) [@wentwest](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wentwest)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/12 "2019-04-03T23:34:41Z")
I once passed a guy who was playing a tambourine with both hands, singing. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/13 "2019-04-04T03:56:20Z")
I didn’t know you needed a license to have a baby goat. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/14 "2019-04-04T04:42:14Z")
Gawd that was me! I was steering with my knees! I mean how can you speed up a vw bus and hey Mr Tambourine man who can sit still! (humor) ---
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/16 "2019-04-04T13:01:22Z")
…just another example of overreach by the nanny (goat) state. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-achievement-in-distracted-driving/137853/17 "2019-04-04T13:07:54Z")
BaDa Bang tishshshsh! (hard to do a rim-shot in text) Carolyn is the GOAT! (Greatest Of All Time)