Rage/Chuck (Myself): A friendly reminder to look both ways, with all train tracks involved at a railroad crossing

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A friendly philosophical reminder to look both ways, with all train tracks involved at a railroad crossing.

I do mobile chat and walk and can also chew gum at the same time...

USA Today May 19 2019

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Watch out! New York may ban texting while walking across the street Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau

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ALBANY, N.Y. – You probably shouldn't walk across a street and look at your phone at the same time. Now New York might make it illegal. 

A bill sponsored by Democrats who control the state Legislature would allow police to issue a ticket between $25 to $50 for a first offense of getting caught texting while walking — unless you can prove it was an emergency.

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"Not only can trips and falls occur, but even getting hit is more than just a possibility."
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I suppose a libertarian objection in regard to this type of law, or possible type of law, is that such a law too strongly 'babies' a citizen that should take responsibility for his/her own actions.

On the other side, as my Dad mentioned today, too many people wander around downtown, not paying attention while texting. Sometimes stopping to text while in the middle of the road.

When walking, I pull over to text...(or email)

I do mobile chat (not text or email) and walk and can also chew gum at the same time...(No near accidents)

Is texting while walking a serious public problem???

A new one, in the why a person cannot go out department...

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An unnamed person texted me last night, to inform me they could not attend the evening event because they had the runs from eating nuts.

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Notre Dame rooftop swimming pool?

The Weather Channel June 15 2019 

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Notre Dame Fire Reconstruction Ideas Include a Rooftop Swimming Pool

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In the wake of the heart-wrenching blaze that destroyed the roof and famed spire at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral last month, French authorities said it would launch an international competition to design a new spire. One architectural firm says to forget the roof and spire and build a rooftop swimming pool instead. 

Stockholm-based Ulf Mejergren Architects (UMA) are proposing a giant, cross-shaped swimming pool that would span the entire roof of the cathedral, creating a "new meditative public space."

"We think that the cathedral looks much better without both the spire and the led-clad roof. Instead we let the bell towers, the flying buttresses and the rose windows do the talking," the firm said in a press release.
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This type of design reads as a good idea for Baptist churches...

Maybe even for Mennonites...

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CBC June 15 2019

Cited Notre-Dame reconstruction plan inspires big promises, unorthodox designs

And today, a Swedish firm that specializes in whimsical designs has unveiled its bid to place a public swimming pool atop Notre-Dame's roof. 

We are proposing a meditative public space; a complementary spatial experience to the building with unmatched views over Paris," says the pitch on the company's website, promising to let the original bell towers and rose windows "do the talking."