What’s the difference between alcohol and Facebook?
What is the difference between a 4,000-pound car being driven by an intoxicated driver and a 4,000-pound car being driven by a cellphone-using driver? Both combinations can kill. The laws of physics are the same for both drivers if they are involved in a collision.
So why does the driver who is drunk get handcuffed before being carted off to jail? In both situations, the vehicle is a lethal weapon. Why is the driver using their cellphone given a $50 ticket and coddled?
There is a curious distinction between the devotees of alcohol and the devotees of Mark Zuckerberg, neither of whom are particularly safe behind the wheel.
Bill Brooks
Waynesburg