Listen up, zombies

For years now, the perils of texting while walking have been alarmingly clear. Just check out all the videos of people falling into fountains, bumping into walls or getting clipped by turning cars while their eyes are riveted to the screen.

Everyone is aware. Few change their behavior.

What to do? Lawmakers in Honolulu and elsewhere have alighted on a solution: Pass a law! Outlaw texting or talking on a smartphone in crosswalks. But enforcing such a law looks to be virtually impossible.

Remember the Pokemon Go craze a couple of years ago? People hunted characters such as Pikachu and Squirtle on the streets and elsewhere in the real world. There were wipeouts. The game was so absorbing that people fell into holes, twisted ankles, took nasty skateboard spills, bounded into revolving doors and trees.

Crossing the street in Chicago demands quick instincts and exquisite legeye coordination. Some drivers think the pedestrian crosswalk is for target practice. Others just keep creeping into the crosswalk to menace walkers, as if they should have rightturn-on-red right-of-way at all times.

Bulletin to all you people at the wheel of a 4,000-pound vehicle: You are supposed to yield to the people on two legs, even if their noses are buried in a smartphone. Refraining from texting or talking distractedly, particularly in crosswalks, is a spectacularly good idea. We wish more people would do that. We’ve almost collided with some of them.

So watch where you’re going, everyone. And, yes, we’ll try to take our own advice.