This whole thing reeks of the horrible direction society is heading in. Firstly, abandoning fundamental care and attention needed while performing a high demand activity. Secondly, total abandonment of self responsibility (which is really starting to show up EVERYWHERE in our society).
I figure everyone has a "my crap is more important than yours" situation happen, I'll duck inbetween pedestrians crossing a road if I have plenty of room to do so, rather than wait the 30 seconds.
Whoever this poor girl is, she needs to be appropriately punished for taking away someone elses life due to a incredibly selfish and irresponsible desire. I'm behind the whole cellphones in cars=evil school.
People often seem to act like they'd be dead and/or inable to function if they didn't have their cellphone/crackberry/whatever - doesn't anybody remember how the world functioned before the 90s? We seriously CAN live without checking our e-mail, our phones whatever.
I think this really says a lot:
What's really sad is to think that people are so bored by everyday life, that they need some form of entertainment glued to their senses at all times.
Look at TV shows, they feel the need to tempt people into watching the next episode with a preview because (I'm guessing here) of the TV folk realising how drab and dull our programming is these days, so they bribe us with some candidly edited 30 seconds of action in an hour long crapfest. (I hate how TV is).
I really feel for the family and friends of the poor man who lost his life, just for riding a bike in the wrong place at the wrong time. WTF world, wtf should these people suffer so traumatically and the wrongdoing moron gets off free (whatever that was she got 'awarded', wasn't punishment IMO).
It irritates me so much, that I really think I'm starting to not care as much - I feel totally helpless against this kind of stupidity, and I'm having a really hard time with figuring out how I can try and help/contribute to a more positive role model for our future. (My current thinking is parents are largely idiots these days, and need a swift kick in the sack to take hold of their lives and stop letting other things/people/events explain your laziness away).