I saw a bumper sticker once. It went across the entire bumper then
appeared to wrap around to the side of the car. It read:
"You know, you'd probably drive better if I took that cell phone and
shoved it up your..."
Of course, I have no idea what the continuation on the side read.
Bob Ryan
Hill, Farrer & Burrill
Los Angeles
(Where is it against the law to:
1. Not be talking on a cellphone
2. Be more than 200 feet from a Starbucks
3. Hear the word "Paris" and think first of France.)
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Sharon Wayland
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:33 AM
To: Lawlib
Subject: Cellphone Users
I know this has been discussed before but our problem with cellphone
users has become increasingly worse and I am wondering if others are
having the same difficulties. Fort Worth sits on top of a huge natural
gas reserve and so our library (and the entire courthouse for that
matter) has very recently been overrun by people doing oil and gas
research. They talk on their cellphones incessantly and no amount of
warning and signposting has seemed to help. We used to allow them to
keep their phones turned on in vibrate mode but the phone conversations
became so loud and annoying, we recently posted signs tellling them to
shut them off completely. Now we are fighting with them all day long to
get them to KEEP them turned off. They are usually cooperative about
turning them off but almost invariably, end up turning them back on,
sometimes within just a few minutes. I am not talking about one or two
isolated cases but more like dozens every day.
What do you do when you have a large number of patrons who abuse the
rules constantly? This is public library and I hesitate to start
banning patrons.
Sharon Wayland
Tarrant County Law Library
100 W. Weatherford, Rm. 420
Fort Worth, TX 76196-0800
817-212-7228
Fax 817-884-1509
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