Letter to the editor - Dec. 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 2:56PM J.B. Leonard
Seeking bachelor’s degree in mass communication
As I walk around campus, I notice students always looking down at their cell phone or listening to an iPod.
I am surprised students aren’t hit more often around here. They keep their nose buried into their cell phone and forget other people are around them.
And the same for goes for people driving cars on campus. There have been many times when I thought a car would not stop for me when I was crossing the street.
Another time, as I was riding my bike, a girl was texting on her cell phone and didn’t even bother to look up or move as I, with no way around her besides crashing into a ditch or bush, was coming right at her.
It’s just awful that people today can’t stop concentrating on a cell phone to save their life.
What would you have done if you, texting away on your cell phone, got hit by a car?
I would say it was the texter’s fault for not paying attention in the first place because a driver has enough to worry about besides a person not paying attention to what he or she is doing.
It’s just moronic to not pay attention to your own surroundings because someone is texting you.
Is a text really worth your life?
I think and hope not.
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