Distracted pedestrians stumble into danger
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP50e3f5f32487449299f8201a13bd4ad5.html
Personally I think our gene pool needs a bit of scrubbing, so losing some of these people would be a fine thing for me. However, since that won’t be allowed, creating no-texting-while-walking laws are just as idiotic as no-texting-while-driving laws, we don’t need more laws, we need uniform enforcement of our existing laws. Distracted driving is already illegal and I bet there are laws on the book that have something to do with barging out into traffic without looking. If someone isn’t paying attention and walks into someone else, isn’t that the same as assault? Of course our ‘justice’ system is famous for its non-uniform application, so all this ranting is for naught.
This made me chortle so much I was worried my co-workers would think I was having a seizure (particularly the last)…
The cases include a 24-year-old woman who walked into a telephone pole while texting; a 28-year-old man who was walking along a road when he fell into a ditch while talking on a cellphone; a 12-year-old boy who was looking at a video game when he was clipped by a pickup truck as he crossed the street; and a 53-year-old woman who fell off a curb while texting and lacerated her face.
One 67-year-old man walking along the side of a road was hit a by a bicyclist who was talking on a cellphone as he rode. The pedestrian injured a knee.
