Cell-phone law confusion leads to hands-free frenzy
Friday, June 29, 2007
By Brandon Lowrey, Staff Writer, LA Daily News
Convinced that gripping a cell phone while driving would become illegal Sunday, a customer walked into Jacob Peykar’s wireless store to beat the deadline.
Peykar said Thursday that he tried to tell his persistent customer that the hands-free law was still a year away, but to no avail. The man spent $300 at the Woodland Hills shop to deck out his wife, kids and mother with blinking blue earpieces.
“He was so convinced, I almost believed him, too,” Peykar said.
But Peykar’s customer and lots of other Californians are wrong. The law will take effect July 1 — of 2008.
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