London pads lampposts to protect texting pedestrians
Wed Mar 5, 2008 11:21PM EST
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This is too funny so I just have to share. A recent study by 118 118 found that one in ten people can't text and walk. One street in particular called Brick Lane in London was found to have the highest number of 'walking and texting' injuries in the country, so a charity called Living Streets is launching—get this—a padded lamppost program.
According to ITN, the program would allegedly wrap-up the nation's lamppost to protect inattentive pedestrians from hurting themselves when they're too busy texting on their phone. Brick Lane will be the first to launch a pilot program, and if successful, the padded lamppost concept will be launched in Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. Hey, you never know, it might even migrate over to the United States.
And here we thought our texters were bad. I'd love to hear what you think of this crazy padded lamppost idea.
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2 Posted by dawghausbass on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:38PM EDT Report Abuse
Only in London! I'm waiting for the commericals or maybe Saturday Night Live. Whats next? Uh maybe wrapping telephone and light poles for those dummies, who text and drive.
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3 Posted by osgood35fan on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:46PM EDT Report Abuse
If you absolutely MUST text while walking on a busy sidewalk, and can't figure out to watch out for people and street lights, then you deserve to get hurt.
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4 Posted by sknygrydg07 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:26PM EDT Report Abuse
That is hilarious! Are we going to start wiping people's bottoms next? Way to go for the dumbing down of the human race. It's called 'natural selection', doncha know?
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5 Posted by alpyne2 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:51PM EDT Report Abuse
Ugh! At least they aren't asking for government to pay - yet. It seems like a self-correcting problem - people who injure themselves while texting will probably drop & hopefully damage their cell-phone. Those who don't learn from such an experience need to seek help.
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1 Posted by soltal_tw on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:32PM EDT Report Abuse
If you can't walk and text at the same time without running into something, go sit down. It's almost pathetic...you know you have to divide your attention. It'd just be simpler to /talk/ on your cell phone to a person while you're walking, instead of texting. Further, I think it's half a waste to pad lampposts. That money and material could go to better use. Towards things that people actually need. What they need is someone to tell them to be careful when texting and walking. I don't mean to be mean or anything, of course. ^^ On a side note...Firefox thinks 'texting' is spelled wrong...