If walking off a pier or into a fountain isn't enough of a deterrent to Walking While Texting, then perhaps this will: you may just walk into a bear roaming the neighborhood!
That's what La Crescenta, California, resident Vaz Terdandenyan found out the hard way while walking and texting one afternoon:
"I got up this morning from helicopter noise and I was trying to see what was going on," Terdandenyan told KTLA.
"I was texting my boss that I would be late for work because something is going on, and I'm coming down the stairs and I see the bear coming up the stairs toward me."
"I turned back and I ran for my life. I guess running for a marathon came in handy because I was in shape to run away!"
Geeks Are Sexy has the video clip: Link [Embedded YouTube video]
Meh. I can watch Star Trek on my phone, so it's an acceptable trade-off.
I recall people having satisfying social lives and productive work lives back when we had phones that plugged into the wall and wrote letters on paper with pens.