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Watch it all and here is a challenge for blog readers. I think every youth ministry in whatever parish where you worship should be challenged to discuss this issue whether through this report or another. Contact your youth minister or youth leaders and see if it has happened and if it hasn’t ask why not–KSH.
I’ve seen some dreadful behaviour behind the wheel, and I always get paranoid if there is a driver behind me chatting away on the phone. I hope the message gets across sooner rather than later.
considering how difficult it is to dial a # from your cell while driving (something I do on rare occasion), I am absolutely dumbfounded that someone would attempt the considerably more complex task of texting.
I had a parishioner who would text from his Blackberry during sermons, so I set my phone to easy press send from my pocket and sent him a text message while I was preaching that read: Pay Attention…it was funny to watch his head snap up and the huge grin on his face when he got the message…
If you HAVE to use a cell phone when you’re on the road, pull OFF the road and stop. THEN use your phone. If you get a call, find a safe place to pull over and stop. THEN answer the phone. No excuses!
A wake up call for us all, who have all (lets admit it…) probably snuck in a txtmsg or a GPS check, even if on the rarest of occasions.
There are interesting Gospel implications in this report. Twice the Bound Will is noted by the reporter: when the kids [i]knew[/i] there were cameras in the car, they still did it; and when Peter Kissinger from AAA said that 20% of people who text while driving do it even though [i]they know[/i] it is dangerous.
In response to Kendall’s exhortation: In our youth group a while back we didn’t watch but we discussed (because it had made its way around) that realistic dramatization of the teens dying because of a texting-caused crash put out by that police department in the UK. It was a challenge to get past the “was it too shocking?” or “was that appropriate?” critiques (both youth and parents) in order to address the real issue.