Comments on: Cops Eye Laptop In Calif. Collision

Computer In Crashed Car Was Allegedly On And Plugged Into Cigarette Lighter

[rusty50-2009]

*******. At least he was the only one he got killed.

[babyboo4you5]

ok well first of all. all you people are very stupid. you people dont know him and he is my brother. so all need so shut ur mouth about saying he deserved to die man *** u. if it was ur son or borhter or uncle u wouldnt be saying that

[tcc3po]

for all we know, he may have been watching streaming animal porn. not that it matters whether he was doing valuable work on his laptop or not, what he did was tremendously stupid, AND it reklessly endangered EVERY SINGLE DRIVER ON THE ROAD with him. why can't people have the---what is it? common sense or common decency?---to think about their fellow drivers/passengers???

[babyboo4you5]

ok well first of all. all you people are very stupid. you people dont know him and he is my brother. so all need so shut ur mouth about saying he deserved to die amn *** u. if it was ur son or borhter or uncle u would be saying that ***.

[tcc3po]

darwin, baby, darwin...

[jjjenkin]

You can have the laptop running and closed and have the GPS or whatever give verbal commands. I've done this. Trying to make a story every possible way. Shame on the media. It was a terrible accident.

[tibu987]

Well, he won't do that again!

[jsears334]

why would you have your laptop plug-in if you were not looking at it ?, come on people don't be fool like he was or your next !!!!

[dbstevens]

First of all, peace and prayers for this man and his family and friends.

I agree with those who point out that he may NOT have been engaged with his computer. We all jump to conclusions too readily. But I also agree with people who say he was a fool if he was...and MOST OF ALL I agree with those who'd say that ANYBODY who is doing something other than driving while they're driving isn't just foolish, they're dangerous. That includes cellphones, MP3 players (even listening to music too loud is distracting ... you can't hear what else might be going on), reading, applying makeup, looking at themselves in the rear view mirrors...anything other than paying attention to their driving. They can kill other people that way. We all know that a split second can take someone's life and you have to stay aware.

It's a shame that "common sense" isn't so common.

Whether or not this man really was distracted by his computer, I do like to see news stories which call attention to this sort of stupidity and remind us to be careful. If even one person remembers this and avoids distractions like this, then that's good.

[hissteps4u]

Just because it was on and pluged in does not mean he was useing it and looking at it.

I regularly use my Computer when I drive for Music. I store some 10,000 songs on it and it is a regular thing for me to use the computer and Blue tooth it to my system to listen to the Music.

It is a shame someone died and others were hurt. If he was looking at it or surfing while driving he was a fool.