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How many people have to die while messing with their phone? (1 Viewer)

JohnnyU

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Man, Distracted by Electronic Device, Identified After Falling to Death at Sunset Cliffs

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Man-Dies-After-Falling-Off-Cliff-at-Sunset-Cliffs-Lifeguards-363534491.html

Just one of many, whether it's texting while driving or walking out in front of a vehicle while looking at their phone or other electronic device. Why must people be so addicted to their electronic devices? I use mine a lot too but I don't need to be looking at my phone while walking, driving or doing anything dangerous like walking near a cliff. Can't it wait? Or have someone else take the picture or don't take the picture.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN

 
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We seem to have turned into zombies with these phones. The ones that have me SMH are the people buried in their cell phones while walking through a busy parking lot or crossing the street, etc.

I notice a lot more of couples out to eat as well literally not saying a word to each other, both heads down using their cell phone during the entire dinner.

Actually went on a first date a few years ago where, within 15 minutes the girl pulled out her cell phone, and checked in every other minute or so for the next hour. I walked out.

Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public. Checking out at a grocery store, paying for something at a convenience store and not even acknowledging the person across from you. This has to be one of the rudest things in the world.

Spending an entire sporting event or concert watching it through your phone. Either video recording it, snapping pictures non stop or tweeting about it, using facebook.

I guess it's a millennial/generational thing, but sometimes it's a little scary to see where it's going.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN

 
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I actually was shocked the other day in NYC how many people aren't on their phones while walking down the street. Was very refreshing g.

 
John Bender said:
We seem to have turned into zombies with these phones. The ones that have me SMH are the people buried in their cell phones while walking through a busy parking lot of crossing the street, etc.

I notice a lot more of couples out to eat as well literally not saying a word to each other, both heads down using their cell phone during the entire dinner.

Actually went on a first date a few years ago where, within 15 minutes the girl pulled out her cell phone, and checked in every other minute or so for the next hour. I walked out.

Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public. Checking out at a grocery store, paying for something at a convenience store and not even acknowledging the person across from you. This has to be one of the rudest things in the world.

Spending an entire sporting event or concert watching it through your phone. Either video recording it, snapping pictures non stop or tweeting about it, using facebook.

I guess it's a millennial/generational thing, but sometimes it's a little scary to see where it's going.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN
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It's super weird. Remind me of the fat people on the movie Wall-E. People are just lobotomized by their phones. One of the main reasons I am quitting fantasy football. Because I found myself doing this way too often.

 
As far as I'm concerned, its Darwinism for the most part. If some doofus seriously walks off a cliff while playing candy crush, his presence in the gene pool was probably a negative anyway.

It just sucks when it results in an innocent person being hurt (by some idiot who is texting while they drive) or to a far lesser extent, when it inconveniences me.

Some ####### sitting in front of me at Star Wars on Friday decided it was ok to take his phone out and text pretty much every 2 minutes for the first hour of the movie. Got a nice flash of light in my peripheral 25-30 times throughout the film. I'm not MOP and it was my 2nd viewing anyway, so I wasn't about to start a fight over it, but it still baffles me how people just don't the ability to unplug for 2 minutes and just live.

 
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John Bender said:
We seem to have turned into zombies with these phones. The ones that have me SMH are the people buried in their cell phones while walking through a busy parking lot or crossing the street, etc.

I notice a lot more of couples out to eat as well literally not saying a word to each other, both heads down using their cell phone during the entire dinner.

Actually went on a first date a few years ago where, within 15 minutes the girl pulled out her cell phone, and checked in every other minute or so for the next hour. I walked out.

Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public. Checking out at a grocery store, paying for something at a convenience store and not even acknowledging the person across from you. This has to be one of the rudest things in the world.

Spending an entire sporting event or concert watching it through your phone. Either video recording it, snapping pictures non stop or tweeting about it, using facebook.

I guess it's a millennial/generational thing, but sometimes it's a little scary to see where it's going.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN
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It's not a millennial thing, it's a dumb people thing. We get annoyed by all the people that do it to.
 
Heck i see plenty of people who are impervious to their surroundings even without a phone. Every day on my way to and from work i have to deal with tons of dopes clogging up the sidewalks.

I wish they would give out obama smartphones so we can thin the heard a bit more.

 
I wish I could make the face and pantomime I do in the car to make my wife laugh when we are stuck at a light behind someone who won't go because they are french kissing the phone and have no idea what is going on around them.

It needs to be punishable along the lines of drunk drivers. I would rather take my chances dodging the drunk than I would the car phone guy/gal. And then when you do honk or let the person know you see them on the phone the proverbial middle finger whereas most drunks will waive and thank you for waking them up.

 
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John Bender said:
We seem to have turned into zombies with these phones. The ones that have me SMH are the people buried in their cell phones while walking through a busy parking lot or crossing the street, etc.

I notice a lot more of couples out to eat as well literally not saying a word to each other, both heads down using their cell phone during the entire dinner.

Actually went on a first date a few years ago where, within 15 minutes the girl pulled out her cell phone, and checked in every other minute or so for the next hour. I walked out.

Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public. Checking out at a grocery store, paying for something at a convenience store and not even acknowledging the person across from you. This has to be one of the rudest things in the world.

Spending an entire sporting event or concert watching it through your phone. Either video recording it, snapping pictures non stop or tweeting about it, using facebook.

I guess it's a millennial/generational thing, but sometimes it's a little scary to see where it's going.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN
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please tell me you stuck the chik with the check! Just once i want to go to a steakhouse and pass the 300 check over to the chick.
 
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JohnnyU said:
Man, Distracted by Electronic Device, Identified After Falling to Death at Sunset Cliffs

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Man-Dies-After-Falling-Off-Cliff-at-Sunset-Cliffs-Lifeguards-363534491.html

Just one of many, whether it's texting while driving or walking out in front of a vehicle while looking at their phone or other electronic device. Why must people be so addicted to their electronic devices? I use mine a lot too but I don't need to be looking at my phone while walking, driving or doing anything dangerous like walking near a cliff. Can't it wait? Or have someone else take the picture or don't take the picture.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN
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Wife almost got run off I-40 today because of this. She said the person had no clue what they almost did.

 
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John Bender said:
Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public.
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Incredibly rude. I saw two guys at a business lunch, one of them answers his phone and proceeds to chitchat for 10 minutes. Other guy just sat there like Charlie Brown, pathetic look on his face. Made me really angry.
 
I love the family of four, mom, dad and two young kids, out at a restaurant, that never even look up from their cell phones to make eye contact with one another. Such a fail.

 
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McGarnicle said:
Mors Venit said:
McGarnicle said:
John Bender said:
Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public.
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Incredibly rude. I saw two guys at a business lunch, one of them answers his phone and proceeds to chitchat for 10 minutes. Other guy just sat there like Charlie Brown, pathetic look on his face. Made me really angry.
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Could have been a date.
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There aren't any gay people in Atlanta.
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Atlanta ,Iran?

 
Mors Venit said:
McGarnicle said:
Mors Venit said:
McGarnicle said:
John Bender said:
Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public.
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Incredibly rude. I saw two guys at a business lunch, one of them answers his phone and proceeds to chitchat for 10 minutes. Other guy just sat there like Charlie Brown, pathetic look on his face. Made me really angry.
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Could have been a date.
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There aren't any gay people in Atlanta.
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Atlanta ,Iran?
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LOL!!!
 
lots of assumptions about the guy that died. his mom posted that he was taking pictures. the police said they didn't find a device, and didn't know if it was a camera or cellphone.

people have been injured or killed on those cliffs my whole life. it's easy to slide or lose your footing there, and the cliffs themselves are unstable.

tragedy that the guy died and left behind a son, but he isn't the first person to take pictures there.

 
The answer to the OP is "A lot more" and it's going to take someone in government that has a spouse that is killed and makes headlines, then it will become real for them.

 
We live in a great country but many countries are more advanced when it comes to public safety and driving. The USA was slow to enact seat belt laws - a decade behind Australia and some other countries. Several states in the USA have some type of ban on cell-phone use while driving - CA and NY for example. Most states have no restrictions on cell phone use, including texting, while driving. Meanwhile, dozens of countries have complete bans on cell-phone use while driving. A friend of mine travels frequently to Brazil and he says that there are big penalties, so drivers take the law seriously. In Florida and many other states, there is not even a prohibition against bus drivers texting while driving.

 
John Bender said:
We seem to have turned into zombies with these phones. The ones that have me SMH are the people buried in their cell phones while walking through a busy parking lot or crossing the street, etc.

I notice a lot more of couples out to eat as well literally not saying a word to each other, both heads down using their cell phone during the entire dinner.

Actually went on a first date a few years ago where, within 15 minutes the girl pulled out her cell phone, and checked in every other minute or so for the next hour. I walked out.

Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public. Checking out at a grocery store, paying for something at a convenience store and not even acknowledging the person across from you. This has to be one of the rudest things in the world.

Spending an entire sporting event or concert watching it through your phone. Either video recording it, snapping pictures non stop or tweeting about it, using facebook.

I guess it's a millennial/generational thing, but sometimes it's a little scary to see where it's going.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN
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Could not have said it better. Spot on.

 
John Bender said:
We seem to have turned into zombies with these phones. The ones that have me SMH are the people buried in their cell phones while walking through a busy parking lot or crossing the street, etc.

I notice a lot more of couples out to eat as well literally not saying a word to each other, both heads down using their cell phone during the entire dinner.

Actually went on a first date a few years ago where, within 15 minutes the girl pulled out her cell phone, and checked in every other minute or so for the next hour. I walked out.

Cell phone conversations while interacting with someone in public. Checking out at a grocery store, paying for something at a convenience store and not even acknowledging the person across from you. This has to be one of the rudest things in the world.

Spending an entire sporting event or concert watching it through your phone. Either video recording it, snapping pictures non stop or tweeting about it, using facebook.

I guess it's a millennial/generational thing, but sometimes it's a little scary to see where it's going.

Oh yeah, GET OFF MY LAWN
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I agree with most everything in this post except this part. I am surprised how many people older than me (40) are buried in their phones.

The one that really bugs me is parents out with their kids at the park, zoo, whatever. I had some mom freak out on me a few years ago at an indoor play area. I was running around with my son, and she was standing by the wall as her kid was on the opposite side of the field. I overhear her on the phone saying "Yeah, me and X are here playing" I said a little too loudly "no you aren't, you are talking on your damn phone". Can't imagine what this is doing to the kids as the parents are always on their phones doing other stuff. Like others have said - it's probably the family out to eat and everyone is on their own devices.

 
Werner Herzog made a compelling documentary about texting while driving called "From One Second To The Next". Believe it's even on YouTube, well worth the watch.

 
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lots of assumptions about the guy that died. his mom posted that he was taking pictures. the police said they didn't find a device, and didn't know if it was a camera or cellphone.

people have been injured or killed on those cliffs my whole life. it's easy to slide or lose your footing there, and the cliffs themselves are unstable.

tragedy that the guy died and left behind a son, but he isn't the first person to take pictures there.
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Yep. This is my neighborhood, and people are rescued from the cliffs seemingly every weekend during the summer. Usually drunk or way too faded.
 
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I'm always curious when people complain about the couple they see at dinner who are "on their phones the entire time". Are you really spending your entire dinner monitoring the cell phone usage of strangers at other tables? If so, isn't your outrage a bit ironic?

 
tommyGunZ said:
I'm always curious when people complain about the couple they see at dinner who are "on their phones the entire time". Are you really spending your entire dinner monitoring the cell phone usage of strangers at other tables? If so, isn't your outrage a bit ironic?
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No, you don't have to spend the night staring at people to pick up on things like that.

 
TLEF316 said:
As far as I'm concerned, its Darwinism for the most part. If some doofus seriously walks off a cliff while playing candy crush, his presence in the gene pool was probably a negative anyway.

It just sucks when it results in an innocent person being hurt (by some idiot who is texting while they drive) or to a far lesser extent, when it inconveniences me.

Some ####### sitting in front of me at Star Wars on Friday decided it was ok to take his phone out and text pretty much every 2 minutes for the first hour of the movie. Got a nice flash of light in my peripheral 25-30 times throughout the film. I'm not MOP and it was my 2nd viewing anyway, so I wasn't about to start a fight over it, but it still baffles me how people just don't the ability to unplug for 2 minutes and just live.
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Should have stood your ground and blasted him to kingdom come

 
tommyGunZ said:
I'm always curious when people complain about the couple they see at dinner who are "on their phones the entire time". Are you really spending your entire dinner monitoring the cell phone usage of strangers at other tables? If so, isn't your outrage a bit ironic?
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It's simply being observant. I eat out alone a lot with my work travel schedule and notice. There's nothing ironic about that.

 
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