The story is not so funny. The comments relating to the photo that accompanies the story are awesome (if they stay up).
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080824_The_texting_perils_of_keypad_zombies.html
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Your news story of the day
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The comments are great, but because the picture isn't just random stock photography so the girl probably knows that the picture will be used with the article and will see or hear about comments like "Kacy played great against the Pats run game Friday night." But don't be a lardass and this won't be a problem.
For me, however, the article itself is where hilarity ensues.
The ER at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where Gardner works, sees about one texting-related injury a week, she said. That included a man who fell off a Segway, plummeting over a seawall, and suffered a concussion and broken wrist.
Oblivious on-the-move thumb jockeys have fallen off treadmills and horses, crashed bicycles and motorcycles, stumbled down steps, wandered into traffic, and bumped into lampposts, telephone poles, trash cans, other pedestrians...one woman toppled a flower display at a funeral. A man at a wedding banged into the bride...a teen chipped her front teeth after stumbling and failing to put out her hand to stop the fall. She was determined to save her cell...In one, a 13-year-old girl was messaging her boyfriend while cooking noodles and lost her grip on the pan. She suffered first-degree burns.
And finally...
...In San Francisco, a woman who was texting died when she stepped off the curb without looking and was struck by a truck.
DARWIN, MOTHERFUCKER! The Universe always wins.
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