Hazardous use of mobile phones

DESPITE continued publication of their photographs in newspapers, youths dangerously engrossed in their mobile phones are yet to be sensitised. They are seen hooked on their cell phones while walking up rail tracks, alighting from or boarding a bus or jaywalking. What can stop this self-destructive practice?

Law enforcers have a role here in theory, but there are many other more serious offences which warrant their intervention. Dying and getting injured in accidents while lost in mobile-conversations has become a nearly regular feature. Given the alarming rise in the hazardous practice, young men should return to the real world from the virtual world in order to put them out of harm's way. But the morbid and weird fad defies logic.

Shamima Chowdhury

Shyamoli, Dhaka