Excellent strip. I’m not sure if this guy would qualify for a Darwin Award or not. I think that requires some sort of highly intentional dumb act. This would simply be stupid.
That’s why they’re called “smart” phones. Don’t see any of THEM in the hole! This reminds me of the idjits on the freeways driving 10-15 MPH over the limit, changing lanes, with one of the damn things pressed to their ear.
You want sad// Our local Amish farmers are starting to carry cell phones and use ATM machines. Not long before farmer Yoder will be twittering from a barn raising party.
My ex-girlfriend (we’re still friends) will not usually answer a phone call, but will reply quickly to a text. (Go figure, I never could). I texted her one day, but she didn’t understand what I was asking. Rather that type a long, complicated message, I sent, “Can I call you?” Her texted reply? “No, driving.”
LOL @thebird55 and bluskies. It works with stupid phones too. It’s just so tempting, when I’m walking along and receive a text, to keep walking while looking at the screen.
I had a guy change lanes in front of me without signaling and then brake check me. I climbed real hard on the binders while looking in the rear view mirror wondering if I was going to get rear ended. It was a CHP officer. As soon as he could the CHP officer got around me and hit the lights on the guy that chopped me. That was a satisfying moment.
Incident happened in Staten Island, NY where the law holds that an injured person may not recover for injuries caused by a defect (i.e., an open manhole cover) that’s “open and obvious”—the question then becomes is an open manhole cover “open and obvious” ? I would certainly think so. And for what it’s worth, a check of the New York Court data base reflects that though the family filed a Notice of Claim with NYC they never filed an actual lawsuit in the New York courts…
It’d be the same reason they use their PIN number to get into the ATM machine. They also have to print OUT or OFF something, instead of just printing it from their computer.
Stuff like this has already happened. I recall one girl that was walking along in the mall and fell into one of the fountains while busy with her cell phone. Last I recall, she was suing the Mall because the employees laughed at her.
Personally, I would have busted a gut. Really weird how culling the herd works these days. Those that should be culled sue instead putting those that do well out of business. So those we need gone, thrive instead.
Write one about that Wiley. Try not to get sued in the process, though.
the guy who invented the first cellphone almost got hit by a car the first time he was using it outside! Shows how stupid people get with their smartphones.
Actually the Darwin award goes to the road crew for not putting barriers totally around the open hole. It’s funny but too close to work. Safe Holidays everybody, Fear me for I am L&I!
Download the apps…Count the steps…No time for maps…Over the reps…To GPS delivery…And digital freedom…And so called revery,,,And quiet mayhem…Till posted data fact…And the peace within…With data well cracked…Without possibility of sin…
Unfortunately, all too true – here in Calgary, two pedestrians died in a single week earlier this month by getting hit by commuter trains or buses while wearing headphones and using electronic devices – adding to others earlier in the year.
pouncingtiger almost 13 years ago
@Radish, sewer or later. (sooner or later)
Ida No almost 13 years ago
Dibs on the iPads! (They’re great for Frisbee golf in the park.)
TexTech almost 13 years ago
Excellent strip. I’m not sure if this guy would qualify for a Darwin Award or not. I think that requires some sort of highly intentional dumb act. This would simply be stupid.
bluskies almost 13 years ago
That’s why they’re called “smart” phones. Don’t see any of THEM in the hole! This reminds me of the idjits on the freeways driving 10-15 MPH over the limit, changing lanes, with one of the damn things pressed to their ear.
Gigantor almost 13 years ago
It would be funny if it hadn’t actually happened two years ago. Google “Alexa Longueira” and read the stupid but true story.
wilb44 almost 13 years ago
You want sad// Our local Amish farmers are starting to carry cell phones and use ATM machines. Not long before farmer Yoder will be twittering from a barn raising party.
alviebird almost 13 years ago
My ex-girlfriend (we’re still friends) will not usually answer a phone call, but will reply quickly to a text. (Go figure, I never could). I texted her one day, but she didn’t understand what I was asking. Rather that type a long, complicated message, I sent, “Can I call you?” Her texted reply? “No, driving.”
Huh?
poppy1313 almost 13 years ago
don’t text and walk
Marblypup almost 13 years ago
LOL @thebird55 and bluskies. It works with stupid phones too. It’s just so tempting, when I’m walking along and receive a text, to keep walking while looking at the screen.
ChukLitl Premium Member almost 13 years ago
They encourage people to develop severe separation anxiety disorders. Gotta be connected to someone at all times.
Ida No almost 13 years ago
What’s funny is watching people getting on escalators in the mall, and not understanding right away why they’ve fallen flat on their faces.
GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Remind me to nail up the board in the back fence. He’s coming through the man hole next winter.
tripwire45 almost 13 years ago
Amazing but simple truth in today’s strip.
APersonOfInterest almost 13 years ago
Look before you Nook !!!
roctor almost 13 years ago
Like lemmings to a fountain.
Harryfan almost 13 years ago
I had a guy change lanes in front of me without signaling and then brake check me. I climbed real hard on the binders while looking in the rear view mirror wondering if I was going to get rear ended. It was a CHP officer. As soon as he could the CHP officer got around me and hit the lights on the guy that chopped me. That was a satisfying moment.
Starrman69 almost 13 years ago
…at least he isn’t driving….
psychlady almost 13 years ago
Now – how do I put this together???
nomorenewsday56 almost 13 years ago
Incident happened in Staten Island, NY where the law holds that an injured person may not recover for injuries caused by a defect (i.e., an open manhole cover) that’s “open and obvious”—the question then becomes is an open manhole cover “open and obvious” ? I would certainly think so. And for what it’s worth, a check of the New York Court data base reflects that though the family filed a Notice of Claim with NYC they never filed an actual lawsuit in the New York courts…
farmermatt almost 13 years ago
Again.
ImaginaryFriend almost 13 years ago
I laugh at this because where I work, you are not allowed to walk and text.
Thehag almost 13 years ago
Yessss!
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 13 years ago
“think if it as evolution in action” Niven & Pernell in “Oath of Fidelity”.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 13 years ago
“It would be funny if it hadn’t actually happened two years ago.”
As tcayer said, it’s STILL funny.
‘Tragedy’ is when I cut myself shaving.‘Comedy’ is when YOU fall in a manhole and die. — Mel Brooks
gosfreikempe almost 13 years ago
It’d be the same reason they use their PIN number to get into the ATM machine. They also have to print OUT or OFF something, instead of just printing it from their computer.
bluskies almost 13 years ago
Like “hot water heater”?
Defective Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Stuff like this has already happened. I recall one girl that was walking along in the mall and fell into one of the fountains while busy with her cell phone. Last I recall, she was suing the Mall because the employees laughed at her.
Personally, I would have busted a gut. Really weird how culling the herd works these days. Those that should be culled sue instead putting those that do well out of business. So those we need gone, thrive instead.
Write one about that Wiley. Try not to get sued in the process, though.
dsom8 almost 13 years ago
This is about the maintenance people who failed to barricade the pedestrian ends of the crosswalk, isn’t it? Where’s OSHA when they really are needed?
gromlop almost 13 years ago
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Don’t I wish…
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
As it is Wiley, is the Man hole cover over the BEAR pit??
falcon_370f almost 13 years ago
And the nominees for the Darwin Award are:…
SusanCraig almost 13 years ago
the guy who invented the first cellphone almost got hit by a car the first time he was using it outside! Shows how stupid people get with their smartphones.
BillWa almost 13 years ago
Actually the Darwin award goes to the road crew for not putting barriers totally around the open hole. It’s funny but too close to work. Safe Holidays everybody, Fear me for I am L&I!
tigre1 almost 13 years ago
S’happening. Evolving before our very eyeballs.
MatureCanadian almost 13 years ago
Thanks Wiley! Keep culling the herd…….
Grizbee almost 13 years ago
I think I’m going to go and set some traps
beady.el almost 13 years ago
Better than plain media meeting “social darwinism”.
Gigantor almost 13 years ago
You don’t get it. Wiley is at his funniest when he takes real life to absurd extremes. The strip isn’t as funny if it just matches reality.
Joseph Krois almost 13 years ago
Download the apps…Count the steps…No time for maps…Over the reps…To GPS delivery…And digital freedom…And so called revery,,,And quiet mayhem…Till posted data fact…And the peace within…With data well cracked…Without possibility of sin…
slcanuck almost 13 years ago
It’s not so much the step, it’s the landing!
Greg Johnston almost 13 years ago
Unfortunately, all too true – here in Calgary, two pedestrians died in a single week earlier this month by getting hit by commuter trains or buses while wearing headphones and using electronic devices – adding to others earlier in the year.
lindz.coop Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Darwin always wins!
mlswartz_99 almost 13 years ago
…and how I wish this would really happen to some of those people that walk around thinking their phone is the center of the universe.
dudecof13 almost 13 years ago
With that manhole as my supplier, I could make fortune reselling those tablets on eBay.
Natoon almost 13 years ago
Beautiful. Thanks Wiley.
Len W. Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Linguistic Darwinism is going backwards:it’s one medium, lots of media.So, make it Social media MEET Darwinism