Texting/walking just as dangerous as texting/driving

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hoichi said:
oh i dunno jiro, i wouldnt want to have been sent up for that one month of after school hard yard detention



Blows smoke slowly into your face again, longer and closer.
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*shrug*

*walking away*
 
Jiro said:
so that means if you witness any wrongdoing, you do nothing and just watch? is that what you learned in prison?

in case you don't know how to be a good citizen... here's a free civic 101 lesson... if you see any wrongdoing, report it and/or if you can... defend a victim. that's not snitching. that's a civil duty and being a good person like... defending a victim.
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there is no victim here.
 
I take the subway to work every day at rush hour, and can attest to the dangers of doing this. I see people who are so absorbed in their phone/e-reader/book that they don't take their eyes off them for a minute. Consider a random idiot, staring down at their object of choice.

-standing on the subway, object held in front of them, taking up extra space. Almost falling over every time the train brakes for a station because they aren't holding on to the poles, but just their precious object.

-train gets to their station. Without looking up, they turn and followed the crowd out the door.

-they walk along the platform, onto the escalator, and then stand there, staring at their phone.

-in the ticket hall, they meander through the throngs of people, up the stairs and onto the street.

-off they go, down the sidewalk, still staring at their object, weaving from side to side so those of us who actually walk quickly and look where we're going can't get past.

Seriously, though, they're going to walk off the sidewalk and get hit by a streetcar.
 
so be it. now is a pedestrian walking into a street car just as dangerous as a motor vehicle ramming into one?
 
The walking texter is certainly more dangerous to himself than the driving texter, who has that extra metal layer of armor.
 
your not factoring in speed, and which objects the vehicle will hit, if they are at rest or also in movement with factored speed.

dont be to sure about that bot
 
hoichi said:
your not factoring in speed, and which objects the vehicle will hit, if they are at rest or also in movement with factored speed.

dont be to sure about that bot
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so you're saying both are equally dangerous despite of the fact that a driver has seat belt and airbag?
 
Bottesini said:
The walking texter is certainly more dangerous to himself than the driving texter, who has that extra metal layer of armor.
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I think that's highly debateable. That extra layer of "armor" doesn't really help if they plow into a guardrail or another car at 60 miles an hour. I think a texter driving even 40 is more a of danger to himself and others than a walking texter.

Sometimes that "armor" turns against people.
 
no they are not equally dangerous jiro. i have never said that. they are not
seat belt or air bag regardless

good to see you back jiro

wink
 
in either case.... somebody will get killed or seriously injured.... therefore both texting while driving and texting while walking should be ticketed if they pose a danger
 
hoichi said:
no they are not equally dangerous jiro. i have never said that. they are not
seat belt or air bag regardless

good to see you back jiro

wink
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I don't know if you noticed that my pants are not hanging below my butt.
 
Feel both are...by not paying attention to where ur walking...or driving. Both can be lethal.

And Hoichi....you're going back to the con mentality again.....Feel sure a lot of us did not fully undy ChicagoBlue...I didn't....But I do know he seems to be a "good guy" and is trying his best to make friends. I've some brain damage myself, so I know how it feels.
 
rockin'robin said:
Feel both are...by not paying attention to where ur walking...or driving. Both can be lethal.

And Hoichi....you're going back to the con mentality again.....Feel sure a lot of us did not fully undy ChicagoBlue...I didn't....But I do know he seems to be a "good guy" and is trying his best to make friends. I've some brain damage myself, so I know how it feels.
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Yeah...... I'm pretty sure that concussion I sustained in 1996 did a number on me. Haven't been the same since.
 
Something even more dangerous than texting while walking
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ambrosia said:
I had my phone out the entire time I was grocery shopping earlier. I put my list in notepad, and every time I got something on the list I deleted it. So I was looking at my phone and stopping for a few seconds to delete items.

I btw did not crash my cart, run over any children. Nobody was injured on my shopping excursion :D
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ChicagoBlue2 said:
Yeah...... I'm pretty sure that concussion I sustained in 1996 did a number on me. Haven't been the same since.
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how did you get a concussion?

I had a minor concussion couple years ago from snowboarding.
 
It is not about the texter. It is about everyone else. The ones who have to deal with the mess. The innocents whose lives are changed cause someone just had to be texting, " hey whazzup" or some such thing while crossing the street in front of a bus.
It is embarrassing to me that this could even be a problem in my country.
 
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