PHILLIPS: Texting and walking. Great idea. No one ever gets hurt or makes a buffoon out of themselves doing that, right? Never, ever. Remember the walking texter from last week? Yes. Ugh. That mall fountain came out of nowhere. Not her fault. OK, all snarkiness aside, texting and walking clearly isn't for everyone. And it's giving rise to distracted pedestrian, and a state senator in New York, Carl Kruger, actually wants to do something about it. He wants to ban the use of electronic gadgets, like cell phones, while walking in the crosswalk in the city and a number of other things. Get busted texting in a crosswalk, jay-texting, pay a $100 fine. He says that he's seen too many people in Brooklyn get lost in their cell phones and find themselves face down on the pavement. Or kissing a light pole. In fact, Ohio State did a study about this issue and found that more than a thousand pedestrians went into the ER because they tripped, fell, or barged into something while they were texting and talking. And the numbers keep growing. Of course, the fountain lady is OK, although having your teachable moment splashed all over YouTube couldn't have been that much fun. So we want to know that texting and driving is a really dangerous idea and it's banned in some states, but what about texting and walking? Ban it, too? Keep your eyes on the sidewalk or pay a fine? Send me a tweet, tell me what you think, @KyraCNN. Don't know much about biology, don't know much about science books. American students taking that song and its lyrics to heart. New report shows just how dismally they score in science.
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