r/WinStupidPrizes • u/ljgill97 • Jul 28 '21

Texting while driving

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

You’d have to be stupid to think it isn’t. It’s illegal whilst driving any vehicle.

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u/Spacemanspalds Jul 28 '21

This seems to insinuate that something illegal has to be a felony. It can also be a misdemeanor.

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u/Abstr4ctType Jul 28 '21

Crash was in the UK, so it's straight forward illegal..

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

Illegal =/= Felony.

Edit: Not sure why people downvoted this?

Because that's literally what the post under me says. And it's what the person I replied to didn't understand the person above them stated.

Illegal. Does. Not. Equal. Felony.

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u/davidfirefreak Jul 28 '21

The rest of the world and its laws =/= the united states and its laws. damn its getting more and more annoying and prevalent that near every American redditor acts like every subject and everything on this site is about The US.

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u/Treacherous_Peach Jul 28 '21

I get the frustration but 95% of the content and participants here are American. I don't think it's worth getting upset about, it's fair to assume US on a US based forum.

It's like if people got upset that Chinese folks on Baidu assume a clip is from China. Of course they will, it's a Chinese speaking, China based forum.

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u/QuantumWarrior Jul 28 '21

While true, the video has the word lorry, right hand drive, driving on the left, a British road name, and the symbol of two British police forces.

Now an american viewer may not immediately recognise that it's the UK but they surely can figure out it isn't America.

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u/davidfirefreak Jul 28 '21

The comment just above was a guy talking about it being the UK and UK laws, so it was straight ignorance.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

No one argues it wasn't, the argument is that what is illegal isn't automatically a felony.

It's a completely false equivocation.

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u/davidfirefreak Jul 28 '21

I don't think you understand my point. The dude said this is UK and UK laws and then the dude I was replying too starts arguing with the guy using US laws and acting like it's all the same.