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Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com)
schwit1 writes: An estimated ten percent of pedestrian injuries that land people in emergency rooms are due to distracted walking, a recent study found. That's thousands of people injured — sometimes killed. In San Diego, investigators believe Joshua Burwell may have been trying to take a picture of the sunset when he took a fatal fall some 40 feet off Sunset Cliffs. "A lot of people don't admit that they do it," said Dr. Claudette Lajam, an orthopedic surgeon. "It's getting worse as we have more and more features on these devices that we carry around with us that can distract us."
At least reading Slashdot isn't dange^^&*((_-/... NO CARRIER
I might just be tired, but it took me forever to figure out what a walking skyrocket is.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Glad I'm not the only one that couldn't understand this headline without reading it a couple of times.
"What the hell is a distracted walking skyrocket?"
Talking about strange headlines, one of my country most read newspapers published the following headline: "Law and Justice: Two hands of the same arm"