What about reading a map?

ya know what,i can kinda relate to this 'law'.
i ride a bicycle,i do not drive a car. this is advantages for me because on a daily bases i see these idiots walking with there head down texting,totally oblivious to their surroundings. i constantly have to swerve out of the way cause these idiots dont even see me coming! imagine if i drove a car!!!
even worse are the clowns standing in the middle of a parking lot texting,like its their right to stall all traffic so they can text! its illegal in ontario to talk or text while driving,so why not walking as well? if your text is that important,step aside and stop to text!
now enforcing this walking&texting 'law' is another matter(maybe best left to by-law officers)
like j-walking,it will be impossible to enforce!

Originally posted by satoriku
What about reading a map?

That would be too dangerous, sorry.

What about eating while walking? What about thinking when walking? What about talking when walking?

And most of all ... What about walking when walking???

So Jaywalking is frowned upon ... What about Gaywalking?

I can see both sides to this, as a dad of two young teenagers who are forever texting whilst walking and then banging into lamp posts, i can see the concern for doing it.....however.....

To make it illegal is pretty stupid. The laws just keep coming but when was the last time you saw a law scrapped?

Let people do what they want, as i tell my kids, if you're stupid enough to look down whilst walking forward, don't expect any sympathy when you walk into something.

Same goes for getting run over.

CX.

What can I do but laugh at this and Thank God I wasn't born in New Jersey. Is there anything that state doesn't have a law, tax or fee for? In my years in and out of it while trucking, I can't say they missed many, if any. This is new though. They needed a NEW law to address simple stupidity?

Wow.. So, what else need we pass laws on? Perhaps we need a new regulation to tell people that walking while looking at beautiful scenery through binoculars tends to lead people to walk right off the edge of a cliff (it happens..lol)? I got it.... I've always wanted to stick a fork in a light socket to see if it feels all tingly. I better consult the penal code first though, there may be a law against it. That might rob me of all my fun!


When common sense needs laws to enforce it, it's best to just give up and start over. It's too far gone for laws to fix.

WTF. Just because someone has difficulty texting while walking doesn't mean the rest of us do.

"It's for your safety" is what they say before extorting more money from you. Once again the law goes after the low hanging fruit (average citizens) instead of going after real criminals.