Teenager Falls Into Manhole While Texting [Telecom]

Now she intends to bring legal action against the city.

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IANALB I'd say she has a case: it sounds like an "attractive nuisance".

There was a follow up on CNN HLN today, it seems the city workers took the cover off, then stepped a few feed away to get the tube to go around the hole, though as I learned in an underground, you get the safety stuff out before you open the hole.

Hows about

Padding to protect pedestrians

Padded lampposts are being trialled in a London street to protect inattentive pedestrians.

A pilot scheme has been launched in Brick Lane after it was found to have the highest number of 'walking and texting' injuries in the country.

A study carried out by 118 118 found one in ten people has hurt themselves while focused on their mobile phone screen.

The charity Living Streets is so concerned that it has teamed up with the directory enquiries service to test a scheme to wrap up the nation's lampposts.

A poll will be carried out on Brick Lane to gauge the response of locals.

If successful, the concept will be rolled out in Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool.

Now I must admit to walking into a telephone pole myself once in my younger years. However the particularly gorgeous woman was well worth the bruise.

Tony

I once witnessed an adult talking on a cell phone almost walk into an elevator shaft. There were a number of signs out warning that work was being done on some of the elevators. There was a very hard-to-miss giant spool of elevator cable in the middle of the floor just outside the 6 elevators. The cell-phone-occupied adult carefully walked around the signs, ignored the maintenance man yelling, and only stopped when the maintenance man blocked the entrance to the elevator with his body.

Another adult was crossing the street talking on the phone and walked into the side of a moving DART train, dropping the cell phone. She reached under the train, got the cell phone (I'm surprised she still had fingers), resumed talking on the phone, and ran into the train again.

Another man at the same corner walked into a street lamp pole while talking on his cell phone. Four times. It would have been more but the cell phone fell down a storm drain and he couldn't get it back.

One alarmed passenger tried yelling at the driver talking on a cell phone to inform him he was headed straight for a lake. When he didn't respond, she jumped out of the moving car, then texted him to stop. He was able to turn around before getting stuck in the lake, but the car needed some repairs from water damage.

Sounds like a series of TV ads for Mercury Insurance a few years ago; a woman driving an RV, put the vehicle is cruise control and going to the back of it to make coffee, or the guy that was cleaning parts with gas, then putting it down the drain, then sitting in the bathroom and smoking a cigarette.

Hah, hah! That is FUNNY! Fortunately my coffee cup was on the table. :-)

I know this is w-a-y off-topic but I just uploaded 4 videos that are in a similar vein; feel welcome to view and/or download:

AGF insurance re: a telescope lens:

Two Ford UK ads:

On-topic: the telephone excuse machine:

You will notice all of your screens at your house have been threaded and your car has been marked by my wifes cats.*

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• (The fordcat.mpeg, shows a cat jumping on the car, sticking its head in the moon roof, moon roof closing, appears to have cut head off of the cat, cat falling to the ground, very sick ad!!!!!!!!)

Deservedly so. :-)

It's been years since I actually watched some of those videos and I was thinking of the "trunk monkey car protection system". I added an index file to that VIDEOS page with a warning about that specific video ("not for the squeamish"). Sorry 'bout that.

Interestingly, cats seem to like my car (they sleep under it) and my backyard, and I'm the only one in the neighborhood without a mouse, rat or gopher problem. Even the neighborhood skunk will come over and sit about 10 feet away when I'm out at night with my telescopes. The bobcats are about 2 blocks away and the cougar hasn't come closer than

Apologies to all for the off-topic post.