London pads lampposts to protect texting pedestrians

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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