In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress 404
narramissic writes "The awkwardly named Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (HANG UP) Act was approved by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a voice vote Thursday. The bill would make permanent the long-standing ban on in-flight cell phone calls by the FAA and FCC. 'Polls show the public overwhelmingly doesn't want to be subjected to people talking on their cell phones on increasingly over-packed airplanes. However, with Internet access just around the corner on U.S. flights, it won't be long before the ban on voice communications on in-flight planes is lifted,' said Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon who co-sponsored the HANG UP Act in a statement. 'Cash-strapped airlines could end up charging some passengers to use their phones while charging others to sit in a phone-free section of the plane,' he said."
The Children (Score:5, Funny)
Think of the children!
No seriously, think about shutting up the fucking children. At least people on phones don't squeal for no reason. Normally.
Acronym bills -- Does it serve a purpose? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:why are we banning cells? (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps there is not in fact anybody on the other end and the person with the phone is just a mental patient who is holding the phone to his head to make it less obvious that it's the voices he's shouting at.
And you wouldn't want an escaped mental patient walking around now would you!
I mean think of the CHILDREN! They might get killed and eaten by insane people!
good thing they're bringing in this law.
Re:Good! (Score:5, Funny)
Did you ever try explaining to your boss how to use email on a foreign network?
Re:The Children (Score:5, Funny)
I never travel without ear plugs and a black-out mask. Or is that the alcohol... But seriously, kids travel. Plan ahead for your sanity.
Re:The Children (Score:5, Funny)
I can get behind this 100%.
Nothing like a screaming infant with an apathetic mother on a 4 hour bus ride with a 5 year old running around trying to break things and being ignored.
Seriously, if you can't take care of them don't procreate.
By the end of it all I could think of was that poster with "Silence is golden.Duct tape is silver."
Re:Good! (Score:3, Funny)
Did you ever try explaining to your boss how to use email on a foreign network?
+1 Insightful, been there, got the tee-shirt, and chewed through it in frustration
Re:Said like someone... (Score:5, Funny)
Even a duck-tape-on-the-mouth kid makes a lot of noise.
Cover the nostrils too. Then the noise stops after a minute or so.
New act needed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Said like someone... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:So screaming babies are okay.... (Score:3, Funny)
Its called baby benadryl, perhaps we should mandate its use on board planes. ;-)
Re:Good! (Score:5, Funny)
in b4 all the obvious jokes about ass-searching (Wait what forum is this again?)
Re:or perhaps (Score:2, Funny)
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Holy shit! His name is my name too!
Re:or perhaps (Score:2, Funny)