Text Alarm

Posted on August 3, 2008

Put the stupid phone up, will ‘ya?

If you don’t yet understand about the dangers of texting while walking, exercising or driving, the American College of Emergency Physicians issued a warning this week advising texters to resist the urge to read or send messages when engaged in another activity (like, life perhaps?)

Emergency room doctors are seeing an increasing number of injuries attributed to texting while doing something else. The dangerous trend has even led to several fatalities, where people walked into traffic or had accidents when texting while driving.

The advisory, aimed primarily at teens and young adults, is timed to hit just as parents and students are gearing up to go back to school.

It is after all, mostly a young disorder, this textivitis thing. Won’t see many 50-90’s in the ER with crushed skulls ’cause they were txtng thr grlfrnd.

In cities where there is a lot of pedestrian traffic, there are a lot of falls because people aren’t paying attention. Well, they are, but not on the right thing. Can you walk and chew gum?

Concentrate, people, concentrate.

Although several states have either banned or are working on legislation that would prohibit texting while driving, no laws exist to prevent people from walking and texting. Maybe there should be.