Smart phone, dumb user.

[Workingman]

Honolulu is introducing fines for pedestrians using mobile phones while crossing the street.

We need to go further. The firing squad is the only answer to smartphone users multi-tasking instead of dealing with the thing they are supposed to be doing - paying at the checkout, buying a bus ticket, pushing a supermarket trolley, pushing a buggy, holding a conversation with you (me), err walking.

[TheOstrich]

I agree with the policy actually - should be extended to walking on pavements as well.
Otherwise how are you supposed to hear when the moped muggers are racing up behind you?

[AliasAggers]

It's getting ridiculous. The other day I read that in one town they have installed warning lights, set in the kerb
at a pedestrian crossing, that turn red when traffic have the right of way -solely for the benefit of pedestrians
who walk along looking down at their smart phones.

[Suff]

Or, we could just send them a link to here.