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Following the death of 22-year-old Seth Kahn, who was struck by a city bus on West 53rd and 9th last week, there's some talk about bus drivers texting while on the job. The driver in this particular incident was Jeremy Philhower, who had been suspended for texting and updating his Facebook with disparaging comments about his riders while behind the wheel. Last Wednesday, when he hit Kahn, was his first day back on the job — if NYC Transit concludes that he could have prevented the accident, they could file charges and fire him.
The Daily News reports that "disciplinary actions against bus drivers caught texting or talking on cell phones have soared nearly 60% this year," according to NYCT. 170 drivers have been reprimanded or fired so far, a number the agency says has gone up due to "increased enforcement, including random observations of drivers and investigations sparked by rider complaints."
While it's against the law to talk on your cell phone and text while operating a vehicle... in a jaywalking-friendly city like New York, will pedestrians one day be told they can't text and walk? (A Staten Island teen did fall into an open manhole while she was texting.) How about skateboarding and texting, or biking and texting?
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"A Staten Island teen did fall into an open manhole while she was texting."
That story still makes me laugh.
People who text while walking make me ashamed to be a pedestrian. Can't we name these people something else? Textidestrians?
Pedtextrians. And you're welcome.
Can we stop over-protecting each other and let natural selection run its course? Please?
text away people!
remember, if you get run over it's ALWAYS the driver's fault even if you're jaywalking against traffic on a green light!
awes! totes! TTYL!
Bus drivers are the city's most evil people...
Yeah, sure.
Difference:
A texting pedestrian can kill themselves.
A texting driver can kill others.
That's where the government should step in.
Texting pedestrian steps into a busy street, car swerves to avoid him, strikes another, runs onto the sidewalk...
Creating a dangerous situation in traffic can kill anyone nearby, not only the person who created it.
People who text while walking on a crowded sidewalk do irritate me. Just stop and step out of the way; otherwise don't expect me to alter my path to avoid you. Expect instead a shoulder check. Always followed by an "excuse me," of course.
Same for the idiots reading books while walking through subway stations. And walking while on a cell phone paying no attention to what's going on around you isn't much better, by the way.
amen, brother!
I also love it when people text as they are crossing the street. soooo stupid.
yes.
There are too many self absorbed idiots around...
And that's why it's high time for some culling. As someone else said, let nature take it's course whether that be a manhole drop or a bus.
and yes.
"As someone else said, let nature take it's course whether that be a manhole drop or a bus."
"Think of it as evolution in action."
If you have a problem with self-absorbed idiots, I'd say you're definitely living in the wrong city.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is irritated at the site of people who text while crossing the street. So stupid.
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I consider it natural selection. If you are stupid enough to be texting while walking in traffic, you are subject to the consequences.
I just don't understand the need for constant connections, communications. I don't care what anyone in my cell phone is doing right now.