I see Rick more likely to be using a military surplus device. He did say there was a bag and long antenna:

And saving his pennies to upgrade to the newest model with downloadable beeptones:

I don´t get that annoyed about people using their mobiles as a phone. What annoys me is the new trend of the young generation using them as awful, tinny sounding, pocket sized ghetto-blasters. Here in Germany it seems as if everyone has forgotten what headphones are and constantly use mobiles to blast me with crappy music that booms out of a 2W speaker!! Whether in the tram on their own or in the city in a group bobbing heads up and down to a bassline that sounds like my girlfriend spraying hairspray rythmically on her hair!!

madmacs
I HATE that
It's always pathetic r n b and hip hop
Yuck
I make a point of 'bluetoothing' them metal, before putting my sound isolating headphones in :)

Well ScottW found a picture of mine on line but have the newer model with an extend-able antenna instead of the older one that screws together.

Same bag however without side pouch.

Sounds interesting :)

It's kind of long with the pics that are in it. Or could I just post it in another thread, or what would you like me to do?

Yep Scott, Perfect, here it is,it is,, this is exactly the one I got, that I thought fit well. I know we're kidding around a lot here, but this is serious stuff sometimes, and I don't think people, (though the gist of this e-mail was kids) realize what they're doing. Okay, off my soap box. Got that out of my system, Thanks!

@Odeho19:
First I want to say that it is sad that happened and I'm happy to hear the boy will be alright.
But what that post is talking about is another subject entirely; the need for some people to do other things while they are driving weather it's being drunk, eating food, talking on a phone or text messaging.
The problem has nothing to do with people being rude when doing things like using a telephone as this topic is about but that those people are just irresponsible and believe that they can both drive and do something else while they drive. It has nothing to do with Cell Phones at all other then it happens to be what many people are paying attention to instead of looking at the road though as listed above not the only thing.
To my knowledge it's been that way since cars were first introduced, a certain amount of people think that they can multitask by driving while doing something else when they really cannot do so.

Important Notes:
"To my knowledge" means based on what I've read about the history of cars, I can not go back in time to verify this though for obvoius reasons.
Also I by no means intend to say that this makes what happened to the child in this accident any better just because text message alone was not the cause. Just wanted to point out that it was the person who decided to use text messenging instead of watching the road that caused the accident.

@JD, I posted the link to this e-mail to point out what I believe was a gross exaggeration of what the original post (yours) was. And that was the "Annoying telephone usage in the current generation". I was merely attempting to point out that it, has in this country (US), gone way past the point of being just annoying, but has now reached the point of becoming literally deadly.

Again, I am not intending to get on a soap box here, as I don't believe, even though HTG has allowed us this forum to speak our minds, in a "off topic" sort of way, I should be delving this deeply into what is clearly a political issue. I am very happy to even broach this subject even this much. And I am also extremely fortunate to say that incidents such as this have never touched me or anyone I know. I merely hoped to point out something that had been brought to my attention,(in an e-mail) then coincidentally brought up as a topic of discussion here.

I do have to say for the record though that some of the punishments brought up by WHS, I don't feel would be a bad idea for those of us here in the US to forced to abide by. I think that we get off too easily for similar infractions here, and I think if ALL drivers were punished more severely, that there might not be as many of these types of accidents. Just a thought...

JD, since we are just entertaining in a comical way, can you please describe the inorganic life forms that you know of? When you say "orgcanicly based lifeforms", I assume that you are trying to exclude other kinds of lifeforms.

The only existing teleporters that I am aware of can only transfer quantum states, not matter. We are a long, long way from Star Trek style teleportation.