15-Year-Old Texting Champ Wins $50,000

I get it, it's good for phone companies to get our kids addicted to texting but where do we draw the line? Kids are texting during class instead of paying attention and doing their work, they text while they drive which the statistics tell us is dangerous. If they're texting during dinner, there went the last opportunity for family communication. And then we have too many parents who just don't care. They can't control whether their kids take the phone to school against school policy, they can't tell them to not bring the phone to the dinner table. And now we have a company rewarding that behavior. What's next, rewards for underage drinking?

I thought they were all champions at texting!

Oh great now take her to get her drivers license so we can have another teen texting while trying to drive!

Talking about values and education ... Scary to see the leaders of tomorrow ... Evidently the IQ of a carrot - gatting allt his money for "texting" I can just see her driving and texting .. I was rear ended three times by idiot talking on their cell phones - No doubt I want to kick their a... s - inculding this blonde nimwit . No wondr the rest of the world decalred Americans as stupid ... As proven here again - they are correct !

Can I win even 1k to pay bills for being a great mother to a child that I isn't mine and not even getting any type of money from the deadbeat mother??!! Well I guess its enough havin this wonderful lil girls love even though she doesnt even have drinks in the house =[...Ya if I sound bitter an jealous its cause I am.

Our Society is nuts! I can see this kid texting behind the wheel of a car , this texting crap is way over people heads and it will be banned soon all over the states society is way too obsessed with this crap and can't say "no tex"t while we work or drive. ITs like a drug! These people will be killing innocent people and I warn anyone who hits me with a car driving while on the phone or texting I will sue them them until they live on the streets, they won't own anything by time I get thru with them! keep going america with your drug (Texting) it will come back to get you!

this is what our world has come to? Texting Competitions?

My goodness people.... lighten up! You don't know a thing about this child or her parents.. You have no idea what her plans are for the money. And this does not mean she will text while driving. I have a 12 year old boy that can text like crazy, but he knows no phone at dinner, during homework time, or during class at school. I am teh PARENT. I laid down the rules and told him the consequences and he abides by the rules because I follow through with punishment. If he was in this competition and won, most of the money would have gone for his education, he would have been given some todo something fun, but the rest would have beenput to good use. And for those who call her pampered.... just because she has a phone she is pampered? I live in a small 2br/1ba house and my husband and I drive cars that are 10+ years old and my son has a cell phone... big deal, he is not pampered. If he wants something, he has to earn it through good grades, good behavior, and earning money through extra chores.... So quit making snap judgements when you don;t have a clue and be glad this girl won something.

Another brainless moron that will become the future of this country. Now aren't we proud?

WOW!!! Now she has enough money to pay for the lawsuit for running into someone while TEXTING some useless message to someone instead of paying attention to what she SHOULD be doing while she's driving.

This is disgusting. One more reason I will not buy anything LG. Their washers and dryers SUCK as well as their customer service.

This is a dumb competition. Texting fries your brain, I'm 15 and never text. Isn't it cheaper and healthier to go outside and play basketball anyways? You shouldn't be awarded money for being a texter.

hah what a looser, i wonder how much 1000s of $ this girls parents phone bill is to pay for the many txt shes done

THIS should not even be a contest. This should not be paying money to some lame person that has found nothing else better to do with their time. OOOOOhhh, I'm going to be famous for being able to text messages fast...and your NEXT accomplishment in life is???? This is retarded. Hey, I bet I have the record for giving the most "I don't give a shits in a day". Where's my 50 G?

LOL, better competition, finally people are rewarded for an everyday skill that promotes better communication!

For those of you who asked who paid the $50,000, it was LG. For those of you who said "Now we are paying" We only paid for this if we own or have bought any equipment made by LG. For those who have said "Why?" Every contest or sweepstakes is a tax write off. For every dollar they give away, they can claim as an expense of some sort on taxes. They aren't losing anything because it helps them in two ways. It draws in more consumers and the government doesn't bite them as hard when or if they didn't do something like this.

human de-evolution...makes my job even harder now. thanks NTC! @$$h01e!

I would of had them drive ,in traffic ,and text messaging.Then you could tell the real winner,they are going to do it anyway,