Fine For Stupidity?

Once again my lovely boyfriend turned me to this article, this is a juicy one. In Fort Lee New Jersey they have instituted a new law, apparently now its illegal to text while walking. Yes you read it right, illegal to text while walking. They claim that it causes people to have more accidents, the news is even calling this texting while walking a "epidemic". When you want to make something sound very bad, just use the words "epidemic" or "pandemic". The condition is called "Inattention Blindness", or so they say. Also what they talk about in the video, humans are only capable of doing one thing at a time. We can't multi-task, supposedly our brains has evolved this way. Well I say that's bullshit, we can do two things at the same time. Here is a simple example of multi-tasking, talking to someone while getting dressed. You're doing two things at once, so multi-tasking. Anyway I think this is idiotic, now they fine you for texting while walking. What's next, you'll get a fine for farting or converting air to carbon dioxide "sir you are polluting too much, here's a 50 dollar ticket".

Now I think that new law might be idiotic and crap, well now let me tell my opinion on the people that have these "Texting While Walking" accidents. They are idiots, like what the fuck is wrong with them. Walking blindly in to traffic and then BAM, a car or even a bus hits you. Whatever the text or chat you have going, it can wait like a minute or two so you get across the street safely. Also those dumbass people need to understand, traffic is not the only dangerous aspect to this. Lets say someone is in a mall and she or he is texting and walking, then she or he falls down a escalator and dies. For fuck sake people, is texting so important that it can't wait one second. This so called "epidemic" doesn't need a new rule or law, those people need to be educated that texting while walking is dangerous Is this new law going to stop texting while walking, hell no. Does the threat of the death penalty stopped people from murdering, I think not. So this won't change things, people will still text and walk.

Also to the news channels and news papers, stop using the words "epidemic" and "pandemic". That is just a sleezy way to sell your shit, be more honest than "hey lets raise panic".

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