Textual Harassment

Good grief:

In late June, five teenage girls were killed in a late-night car accident in upstate New York. They had all just graduated from high school, their lives ahead of them. After the accident, police discovered that the girl driving had been sending text messages in the moments leading up to the crash. Would a ban have saved their lives?

Washington state has already enacted legislation banning texting while driving, and so has New Jersey. Making calls and sending text messages from phones while driving both carry fines ($250 and $100, respectively) in the Garden State. Other states have proposals in the works.

Have people become so incredibly stupid that we actually need a law for this? Oy. Idiocracy, here we come. And if it's anything like the ban on talking on a cellphone while driving (illegal, in theory, in New York state), it will be routinely ignored. You know, watching Lost, I can't help but wonder what the drawback to living on an island in the middle of nowhere would be.