Weird laws elsewhere.
By marguicha
@marguicha (223753)
Chile
October 24, 2023 7:49am CST
Good morning, friends.
I just heard at the news that in Perú the people who are caught after stealing a cellphone (very common here) have to spend now many years in jail.
Then the reporters asked an expert what WE should do in my country. And the problem is that the law prefers to take care of homicides than of cellphone robberies (I agree).
My kitchen window, in front of the sink, has a window from where I can look out to the street. I am amazed. Every person that walks by, even with kids is texting on a cellphone instead of looking wherethey are going.
I did not have a good vacations with my grandson last year in Aruba. He was always relating to the cellphone and did not share. I could have gone alone and spent less.
I have an idea because I´m old. Why not put the cellphone inside a purse while on the streets and use it only for emergencies?
What do you think of this? See you after breakfast. Anita arrived.
I have an idea because I´m old. Why not put the cellphone inside a purse while on the streets and use it only for emergencies?
What do you think of this? See you after breakfast. Anita arrived.8 people like this
7 responses
@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
24 Oct 23
Exactly. And in the metro, youngsters will throw their backpacks at you because they are texting.
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@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
25 Oct 23
@LadyDuck Pople have changed as quickly as the climate. It is another world.
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@LadyDuck (472097)
• Switzerland
25 Oct 23
@marguicha - So true, good manners exist no more.
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@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
24 Oct 23
Good morning...
Because you're older, you don't understand the temptation for the young to constantly be using their phone... Either texting to friends or reading up-to-the-minute news... And those who are using their cellphones ARE paying attention to where they're going... or most of them are. I often text while walking and have yet to walk into a street in front of an oncoming vehicle or step into a hole in the pavement. It doesn't take your full attention to text or read and the phone screen isn't big enough to block your vision.
I'm not young enough to use my cellphone constantly but I am young enough to want to answer texts when they come in... It's like having a conversation. You don't tell people to wait while you walk. You respond to them and keep the conversation going.
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@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
24 Oct 23
Yet cellphones are easily stolen and accidents happen more with people who are using their phones while walking or driving.
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@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
24 Oct 23
@marguicha That's true... cellphones are easily grabbed and easily hidden once the person gets away from anyone chasing them.
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@betlynfrnds (4069)
• United States
24 Oct 23
Between clients, my husband and I stopped at a coffee shop for a break. Observing every customer in the store, everyone and I mean everyone was staring at their phone or other electronic device (ie laptop).
I just shook my head and decided to remain as the odd ball. 
If I had one thin dime for everybody that I see glued to their phone in the course of any given day, there's no telling how rich I would be. 
If I had one thin dime for everybody that I see glued to their phone in the course of any given day, there's no telling how rich I would be. 2 people like this
@betlynfrnds (4069)
• United States
25 Oct 23
@marguicha That is true. It's interesting that you compared cell phone addiction to Covid.
There are so many injuries and deaths from cell phone usage in vehicles. Those stats can probably be compared to Covid incidents.
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@betlynfrnds (4069)
• United States
25 Oct 23
@marguicha That is true. It's interesting that you compared cell phone addiction to Covid.
There are so many injuries and deaths from cell phone usage in vehicles. Those stats can probably be compared to Covid incidents.
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@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
24 Oct 23
I wholly agree with you.
This is a worse pandemia than the covid. There wouldn´t be a terrible problem of cellphone robberies if people were not glued to them.
This is a worse pandemia than the covid. There wouldn´t be a terrible problem of cellphone robberies if people were not glued to them.2 people like this
@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
25 Oct 23
@RebeccasFarm I love these online friends that would have been impossible before. But young people and children have forgotten how to play.
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@RebeccasFarm (90465)
• Arvada, Colorado
25 Oct 23
@marguicha Surely they do not.
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@wolfgirl569 (108144)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Oct 23
It is the same here. Mine is in a case on my belt when I am out. I will look if it rings.
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@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
24 Oct 23
i´m very happy that in a concert they ask people to turn off their cellphones.
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@LindaOHio (181642)
• United States
24 Oct 23
We have basic flip phones and only use them in emergencies. I don't get the obsession with the cellphones. Have a good day.
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@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
24 Oct 23
Lately cellphones have turned into addictions
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@marguicha (223753)
• Chile
25 Oct 23
@LindaOHio My eldest daughter is addicted to it. And I don´t want to think about my grandchildren.
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