Teen sends thousands of texts a month

CANTON, Ohio, June 25 (UPI) -- An Ohio teenager has such a talent for texting that she sends about 15,000 messages a month.

Paige Horn, 15, told WEWS-TV in Cleveland that she doesn't need to look at the phone while she sends messages.

"I just don't look," she said. "I guess I had the phone a long time and I just know

where the buttons are and I just hit them."

Paige does have a time limit. Her parents shut off the phone at 9 p.m. on school nights.

A high school student in the Canton area, Paige said she has a 3.0 grade point average and plays on the school volleyball and basketball teams, so texting hasn't completely taken over her life, the television station said.

She told WEWS-TV she didn't realize her volume is unusually high until her phone went dead. When she took it in for repairs, she was told the number of text messages she had been sending was responsible for the breakdown.