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Started by sgrizzle, March 06, 2008, 08:20:43 AM

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sgrizzle

IT started with child proof caps, then warning labels telling people not to use their lawn mower as a hedge trimmer. Now accommodating the idiots has reached a new low.
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According to a recent report, human beings are becoming so incredibly stupid that they require cushioned lamppost bases so that when they run into them they don't mess up their idiotic faces. Apparently, a study in the UK found that one in ten people actually managed to hurt themselves by walking into a post while peering down at their mobile phone screen.




http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/padded-lampposts-for-distracted-texters-being-tested-in-london/


I really, really hope this turns out to be April Fools joke almost a month early.

EricP

 

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It was 28 years ago, I rode a bicycle into a street sign pole, I wasn't looking at a cell phone though, I was drunk.  doh.
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