Nevada Assemblyman Harvey Munford is worried about all the people he has seen texting while walking. And why shouldn’t he be I mean, persons are walking off piers left and right. Apparently, he’s been searching for the harmful practice since a constituent brought it to his attention last year.

“I was just amazed by what I saw,” he said. “So a lot of people are almost oblivious. They’re texting and texting, totally unaware as they cross even six-lane highways.”

Not desirous to leave it to natural selection to sort everything out, Munford has proposed Assembly Bill 123, in an effort to outlaw texting and walking usually all over the state. Which means texting while walking on urban streets, state roads, or even out within the suburbs could be met with a penalty.

That penalty would start with a warning and increase to a $250 fine by the point the violator receives their third citation.

The only exceptions to the statute would allow for folks to text while walking around the road in two specific situations either a medical emergency or the reporting of against the law.

Reporting on your friend Ashley that whatever Taylor was wearing on the club last night was a “fashion crime” is not exempted.

Munford is following within the trailblazing footsteps of officials in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In May of 2012, that town of just over 35,000 started to ticket “distracted walkers.” Before resorting to fines, Fort Lee tried reasoning with the population by issuing pedestrian safety messages. That didn’t work, in order that they started giving summons to these caught texting while crossing the road.

Fines for texting while walking could appear a little bit dramatic to a couple. Maybe we must always try texting “e-lanes,” jokingly proposed by Philadelphia last year

Or, as previously suggested, maybe just let it work itself out.

[LA Times]