NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Why Texters Should Always Wear Clean Underwear
Texting while driving has become an emerging road safety issue, and half the states are considering legislation to make it a traffic violation. Now ER docs are warning that texting while walking is also hazardous, reports The Associated Press:
The warning came too late for Barack Obama's adviser: Don't walk and text at the same time.
Obama aide Valerie Jarrett fell off a Chicago curb several weeks ago while her thumbs were flying on her Blackberry.
“I didn't see the sidewalk and I twisted my ankle,” Jarrett said. “It was a nice wake-up call for me to be a lot more careful in the future, because I clearly wasn't paying attention and I should have.”
Jarrett got off easy and didn't need medical attention.
But in an alert issued this week, the American College of Emergency Physicians … cite[s] rising reports from doctors around the country of injuries involving text-messaging pedestrians, bicyclists, Rollerbladers, even motorists.
Most involve scrapes, cuts and sprains from texters who walked into lampposts or walls or tripped over curbs.
If the people advising Obama don’t have enough brains in their heads to watch where they’re going and to look both ways before crossing the street, how can voters trust him to lead the nation in a new direction and to see the geopolitical threats hurtling towards the U.S. at breakneck speed?
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