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glbedd53 wrote:The new law will require that both hands must be visible at all times while driving in a school zone.

So we'll have to corner like great-grandma?

Around 8:00 a.m. this morning, I was sitting at a traffic light in Dallas which also happened to be in a school zone. I was in the middle lane and a Dallas PD patrol car was in the left lane next to me. Next thing I know he bumped his siren and turned on his lights. When I look over he is pointing for me to go to the curb on the right. When the light changed, I negotiated through traffic and pulled to the curb with him right behind me. When he gets to my window, he asks if I know why he pulled me over. All I could say was, "I have absolutely no clue." In a very condescending tone, he informed me that is was illegal to text in a school zone even if stopped at a light. I responded that I was fully aware of that fact and that I had not been texting. So he asks me what was I doing while waiting on the light. I showed him the lens cleaning wipe I had been using to clean my (now spotlessly clean) sunglasses and offered him my phone to check for himself (the last text message sent or received was yesterday at around 7:00 p.m.). He declined and say, "Uh, O.K.". I never even took my billfold out of my back pocket. Afterwards, I'm thinking how odd that encounter was. I'm in a 1-ton van and he's in a squad car so there's no way he could even begin to see what I was doing. I was looking down and using both hands so I guess it might have appeared that I might be texting but really, should this have happened?