Not sure if this is a good thing or not....Wisconsin teen is fastest texter in America

[a kennedy]

NEW YORK (AP) – The reigning 16-year-old champion of cellphone texting has reclaimed the title of fastest texter in America.

Austin Weirschke of Rhinelander, Wis., won after eight rounds at the texting competition Wednesday in New York's Times Square. He gets $50,000 in prize money.

Eleven contestants from around the U.S. competed, all using the same type of phone. The competition tested three skills: speed, accuracy and dexterity.

There were three rounds, including texting while blind-folded and texting with hands behind their backs.

The third round is called "text blitz." Phrases were shown to the contestants for a length of time and they copied them as fast as they could.

The annual competition is sponsored by cellphone-maker LG Electronics.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-08-08/texting-championship/56867966/1

[Enrique]

1. maybe this will help Wisconsin heal

[Scuba]

2. When you live in Rhinelander you need to find a way to communicate with the outside world.

http://goo.gl/maps/t7pOL

[Arkansas Granny]

3. My sister has a theory that we are going to evolve into a species with little, tiny thumbs.

[catbyte]

4. lol

[customerserviceguy]

5. First prize should be

the winner gets rear-ended by some jackass who isn't paying attention on the highway. I wondered why the idiot in front of me was going so slow onto the Garden State Parkway this evening, when I got neck-and-neck with him, I could see him texting with BOTH hands, while his elbows were steering his Jeep. Of course, I had to slow back down and scream, "Hang the fuck up and DRIVE, asshole!" At least he gave me the dignity of looking a tiny bit sheepish because he was caught.

We need to ban texting at the source, the telcos need to discontinue it. It's like one of those Asian wars that we think are so "fun" to get into, all we're waiting for is the body count to get high enough before we decide it's a bad idea to have ever done it in the first place.