IT IS NOT THE CLUTTERED PAVEMENTS, IT'S THE CLUTTERED MINDS OF TEXTERS TOO INVOLVED WITH THEIR MOBILE PHONES

05.03.08, 2:30pm

In the U.S. we have had at least two people killed who were sending text messages while CROSSING A RAILROAD LINE with a train coming into view. Total concentration on the phone and nothing else, and fatally. What does this say about people texting while driving? It is frightening. So many seem obsessed with their cell phones to the exclusion of all else. I don't hold out much hope that people suddenly back off this obsession while driving.

I know from a friend in France that there it is banned. Absolutely. And you'd better not be seen even removing your cell phone from the dashboard of your car, or having a passing police officer see you with it in your hand for any reason. Cell phones have become hazardous to one's health and not with regard to the reasons there are surveys going on about their connection to cancer, etc.

What is wrong here is the common denominator for many ills: irresponsibility. Many seem to echew responsibility now: for their children, their personal safety, and their health - 24-hour drinking is driving wits and responsibility out of so many, day in and day out.

With all our technical advances, our medical advances, the world is still becoming a more and more dangerous place because we ourselves are retarding, some of us, with our irresponsible hang-ups with new gadgets and not the least of them the mobile phone.

Move the trash cans around all you want, put up big signs too, it won't make a bit of difference. These mobile phones have become people's constant companions 24/7, 'til death us do part - and that's the way it was with 2 people meeting up with a train while texting on the phone in the U.S. What to do? Who knows, except pay super attention while driving anywhere near these idiots so wrapped up with their phones.

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