{"id":1269,"date":"2012-07-30T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2012-07-30T15:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T15:53:35","slug":"survival-of-the-non-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/survival-of-the-non-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival of the non-stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distracted pedestrians stumble into danger<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP50e3f5f32487449299f8201a13bd4ad5.html\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP50e3f5f32487449299f8201a13bd4ad5.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t be allowed, creating no-texting-while-walking laws are just as idiotic as no-texting-while-driving laws, we don&#8217;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&#8217;t paying attention and walks into someone else, isn&#8217;t that the same as assault?  Of course our &#8216;justice&#8217; system is famous for its non-uniform application, so all this ranting is for naught.<\/p>\n<p>This made me chortle so much I was worried my co-workers would think I was having a seizure (particularly the last)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t be allowed, creating no-texting-while-walking laws are just as idiotic as no-texting-while-driving laws, we don&#8217;t need more laws, we need uniform enforcement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/survival-of-the-non-stupid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Survival of the non-stupid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}