Teachers searching for cell phone strip-search students

The rules of the math exam were that best cell phone deals were supposed to be placed on the teacher's desk to avoid cheating. Or, perhaps, to prevent someone texting Madelaine to ask how last night's ice cream with Roger had gone.Yet, as Canada's QMI Agency reports, the count seemed to be one cell phone short.The 15- and 16-year-olds were then allegedly marched one by one into a room and ordered to strip.

One girl even claimed she had been tapped on the back. Might the teachers have thought she'd recently swallowed a cell phone?They might wonder that if this decision had seemed to be the best, what other decisions had been considered. Hanging the students upside down from a top floor window till a cell phone fell out? Holding their heads beneath a running tap, until someone confessed?The school, which is about 40 miles north of Montreal, said that it is conducting an investigation but would not confirm that any of the teachers would be disciplined. What is unclear thus far is whether any Latest Smartphones were found in this strip search. If not, could it be that this was a case of a math teacher who couldn't count?

Talking on a hand-held cellphone while driving is prohibited in Maryland, but in the fall, a change in the law will make police enforcement of the ban a little easier.Currently, the hand-held cellphone ban is a secondary offense, meaning that police have to stop the driver for another offense before a ticket can be issued for the cell phone infraction.

But starting Oct. 1, the ban becomes a primary offense, meaning that police can pull over a driver they see using a hand-held Buy Cell Phones, said Buel Young, spokesman for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. No other offense is needed.The fines for breaking the hand-held cellphone ban in Maryland will be $75 for the first offense, $125 for the second offense and $175 for the third or subsequent offense.

Making it a primary offense will give some teeth to the enforcement element, Young said.Elizabeth Shue of Springettsbury Township said she thinks it's a good idea. Drivers are too distracted, she said, and they need to have their wits about them."I wish Pennsylvania would do that," she said of the law.

Pennsylvania does not have a law for talking on hand-held cellphones. It does have a ban on texting while driving, which is a primary offense.The distraction is not the discount cell phones, he said. The distraction is the conversation.Peter Jackson of Elkton, Md. said he thinks his state's ban is good for safety."You can't drive and talk," he said.

He had pulled off at the Pennsylvania rest stop near the state line to make a call.Micky McKeon-Fish of Millville, N.J. estimates that 50 percent of the drivers he sees are on a cellphone. And about 50 percent of those drivers are clueless, he said.