TEXT CANCER
By Frederick Corrigan: {webmaster http://www.dartsandsupplies.com}
Is it real? You better believe it!
How long will it take to find a cure? Maybe never!
You’re finally getting a chance to travel west. You set back in your seat
and enjoy the fresh air coming in through the open window. All of a sudden
the driver begins yelling, the wind is now rushing through the open window,
the vehicle starts to tip from the speed and then it happens. The driver is
struck by an arrow, twenty Indians in war paint appear outside your window,
the driver loses control and over the stagecoach goes. Everyone dies as the
coach rolls down the embankment and into the river. The driver was only 29
and he didn’t die from text cancer.
The mail bag was heavy, but the mission was clear. Come rain, wind or snow
the mail must go. The postman looked to his right and then to his left, as
they were getting closer. No help in sight and how do you reach anyone when
you’re going through a mountain pass on the back of a horse with outlaws
shooting at you. The horse is hit by a number of bullets and falls to the
road. The rider is thrown, hits his head on a rock and will never see the
light of day. He was only 20 and too young to die, but he didn’t have
text cancer.
America was founded by people doing dangerous jobs and in many cases they
died very young. They didn’t die from text cancer however, as is
certainly the fate of our future generations.
Do you remember going to the movies and watching the movie stars smoking in
almost every scene? Everyone thought that smoking was cool until we were
awakened to the fact that smoking caused cancer. People with cancer died
very young in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Smoking by the movie and TV
stars stopped and advertising for smoking products was greatly decreased.
Now, we deal with text cancer!
The bus driver sends a text message to his girlfriend while he’s driving
on the highway. The bus swerves off the road, goes down the embankment, it
tips over, nine people die and 32 others are injured.
The traffic is heavy, the streets are noisy and the sidewalks are crowded
everywhere you look. The 15 year old girl is walking along the sidewalk
while sending a text message to her friend. She steps off the curb, not
realizing that the other pedestrians had stopped. The car comes around the
corner and the young lady is dead before she hits the street.
Do you see the text cancer yet?
Everywhere you look: adults on the street, in the mall, on the train, in
the car, the taxi driver, people on the escalator, the pilot on the plane
and the kids on the street. Everywhere you look, you see people addicted
with text cancer.
Texting while in motion is dangerous to everyone. What chance do our
children have to overcome text cancer, if we adults keep setting such bad
examples? We set the bad examples with smoking and now we’re doing it
with cell phones. If you want to hurt someone, keep texting in motion and
it will happen.
In many states, you can’t drive and smoke when you have minors in the
car. The second –hand smoke is a health hazard. However, you can text
message in most states while you have children in your moving vehicle. Now
they won’t die from second hand smoke, they’ll die immediately from the
crash.
We need cell phone and texting laws to protect our young children from the
bad examples that we adults have already set.
The stagecoach driver and the pony express rider died young because that
was a hazard of the job and the west was wild.
The young people in America are dying, because we adults set bad examples.
You can expect more deaths in America this year from texting in motion,
than American military deaths in the war in Afghanistan.
Don’t text message while in motion, it will kill somebody!
Have a safe and a healthy New Year.
Contributed by frederick [ http://frederick.qondio.com/ ]
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