{"id":5084,"date":"2012-10-05T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2012-10-06T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T21:14:22","slug":"texting-driving-enforcement-nets-violators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5084","title":{"rendered":"Texting &#038; Driving Enforcement Nets Violators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/No-texting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5085\" title=\"No texting\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/No-texting-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Bismarck police say they issued 31 citations during a texting-and-driving enforcement blitz for some downright disturbing driving behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say they followed one woman for 15 blocks while she drove with her knees and typed out texts with both hands. Plainclothes officers worked from unmarked, high-profile vehicles during the &#8220;texting sting&#8221; Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Steve Kilde says \u00a0those ticketed &#8220;were so brazen about it, it wasn&#8217;t even funny.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Before the two-day sting, Bismarck police had issued 39 texting tickets since Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The city outlawed texting behind the wheel two years ago; the North Dakota Legislature followed suit in August 2011. Deputy Chief Randy Ziegler says the citations should be a &#8220;wake-up call&#8221; to residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Bismarck police say they issued 31 citations during a texting-and-driving enforcement blitz for some downright disturbing driving behavior. Officers say they followed one woman for 15 blocks while she drove with her knees and typed out texts with both hands. Plainclothes officers worked from unmarked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5107,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}