Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 17, 2012

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    jayman63  over 12 years ago

    if only it really existed, the world would be a better place.

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    hsawlrae  over 12 years ago

    One dummy down, the rest of the dummies to go.

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    Bad form to let go of your device before you splat, Jack! Where’s your dedication?

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    wvhappypappy  over 12 years ago

    Lemming get this straight…

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Natural selection at work.

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    But just tonight I heard of a 23 year old sports star who got hit by a train while riding his bike…..How could that possibly happen, you say? Had ear phones on…Darwin, man…

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    Dtroutma  over 12 years ago

    Saw a girl on her device come within inches of doing this in New Zealand. Narrow trail, 300 foot drop on both sides, and she was oblivious, but stayed in the gene pool. Well, I’m assuming she made it BACK from the lighthouse.

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    Aussie Down Under  over 12 years ago

    Perfect cure for rudeness.

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    keith_grin  over 12 years ago

    That strip reminds me of this youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2L9g0reNo

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    Tirasmol  over 12 years ago

    if only!

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Some folk really need a rubber room in which to traipse.

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    GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Is there a road for such drivers as well? If there is, I wish they’d take it.

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    revisages  over 12 years ago

    shh. don’t tell anyone. the other day, i saw a local cop texting while driving.

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    Proginoskes  over 12 years ago

    “That’ll cost you $85.”

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    tigre1  over 12 years ago

    The planet bites back. People like that aren’t really ON the planet anyway. They are escapees in a perpetual fugue, infected by the corporates who profit from dominating them.May they all learn about reality.

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    roctor  over 12 years ago

    HIKNG LOOKOT PNT →

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    tripwire45  over 12 years ago

    Survival goes to those with “common” sense.

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    bbadenov  over 12 years ago

    I was walking into a mall and there were two sets of sliding doors … one left, one right. I watched a guy who was texting walk smack into the pane glass window between the two doors. It was a Darwin moment …

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    V-Beast  over 12 years ago

    In reality, they would wander off the trail long before they got to the cliff.

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    kenray2010  over 12 years ago

    I KNEW Facebook & Twitter were good for something…tell your elected officials…get one of these trails in every town!!

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    kc2idv  over 12 years ago

    Luckily they can text for an ambulance on the way down.

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    wmbrainiac  over 12 years ago

    puts me in mind of the human race reading its “holy books” as it nears taking a major dive due to warming. talk about oblivious.

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    grtrex2001  over 12 years ago

    In Michigan, a woman was texting, and walked off a breakwall and straight into Lake Michigan.How did we become the dominant life form?my dog knows not to walk off a pier.

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    uniquename  over 12 years ago

    Social Darwinism! Wiley, you’ve invented a new theory of evolution.

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    TexTech  over 12 years ago

    Ah yes, a good dose of chlorine in the gene pool.

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    I'll fly away  over 12 years ago

    The ends to the means?

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    Linguist  over 12 years ago

    Would that this were true. I call my grandson a screenager.

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    Photobug12  over 12 years ago

    @ Grog – totally agree.

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    kaighn  over 12 years ago

    Yesterday I saw a kid riding his bike and texting at the same time. He almost ran into a parked car, and then ours as we passed.

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    dflak  over 12 years ago

    It doesn’t work. Enough of them survive long enough to reproduce.

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    Digital Frog  over 12 years ago

    Thats what happens when the phones become smarter than the users.

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    iFerrarifan  over 12 years ago

    I’m starting to get tired of strips relating to Evolution, it’s not that I don’t believe it happened, (I do), what I don’t like is the constant controversy it causes, soon enough, we should be seeing Goldenroya or exoticdoc2 ranting about how much they hate it, and then the equally fervent members of the opposite side like night-gaunt49 will call them stupid for it nobody wins, like always

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    Linguist, you seem to have named yourself well…..Screenager….I love it…

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    hcr1985  over 12 years ago

    There was a similar situation here in Cleveland….a woman was walking while texting, and she was steps away from falling in a construction hole…

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    The Life I Draw Upon  over 12 years ago

    You forgot texting while driving, as if phone calls weren’t bad enough.

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    Cofyjunky  over 12 years ago

    I still say there’s something to be said for releasing security-cam footage to the media, when a fool-texter trips into a mall-fountain. It’s fun as hell, and teaches the texter a lesson.

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    paultunes  over 12 years ago

    HEY! i read and walk with my iPad all the time and have yet to bump into anyone. don’t do it in the car unless at a stop light unlike the jabber jays i see yacking on their cells while going down the road!

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    MeanBob Premium Member over 12 years ago

    It could be a whole new messaging service! “Cliff Notes”.

    Sorry, I couldn’t stop myself.

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    geneboecker  over 12 years ago

    The Lemur brigade!

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    The fall won’t hurt them; they’re carrying their own landing iPads. And if they’re stranded, they have enough Kindle-ing to start a fire for their hot pockets and dr. pepper dinner you know they’re packing!

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    Perkycat  over 12 years ago

    Loved the guy who was texting and almost came face to face with a bear wandering the neighborhood. Bet he didn’t know he could run so fast.

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    Fan o’ Lio.  over 12 years ago

    I have NEVER seen anyone texting from a pommel horse.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 12 years ago

    “Think of it as Evolution in Action” (Tony Rand)

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    EdFenstermacher20  over 12 years ago

    Social Darwinism?

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    Cmlbx  over 12 years ago

    Hey, you! Out of the gene pool!!!

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    Larhof52  over 12 years ago

    The sad part about it is that when they are behind the wheel they take others with them.

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    sunflower54321  over 12 years ago

    Is there an observation platform for the rest of us?

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    Toxicdave  over 12 years ago

    No it works – There was a young man who fell to his death near the Golden Gate National Recreation area. Walking about the clifs, texting on his phone, slipped and fell.All that bueaty – makes me wonder what he was texting about.

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    JeNagVaz  over 12 years ago

    This Ludite loves this pannel!

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    dabugger  over 12 years ago

    don’t bother me, I’m busy…..

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    Alms4Thorby  over 12 years ago

    “Think of it as evolution in action”

    The line comes from “Oath of Fealty” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

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    Gizmodog1  over 12 years ago

    The reason why Fort Lee, NJ is trying to pass a law for just this sort of thing.

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    Dtroutma  over 12 years ago

    The thought of one of these devices INSIDE a bear, does fit with Wiley’s “observations of life”. As to these morons using devices while “driving”, like drunks, don’t care if they end up with Darwin awards, it’s the people they kill, yet manage to survive themselves, who are the problem.

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    bmonk  over 12 years ago

    Gee, out here in the “Wild West” one cop who got into too many accidents—not his fault, exactly—got let go, and another who was caught DUI (driving under the influence) was also fired.

    ++++

    Sadly, a Kansas City teen who killed another driver was texting while driving—and has been charged with manslaughter.

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    ShadowBeast Premium Member over 12 years ago

    I really wish this would happen.

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    watmiwori  over 12 years ago

    where do you live —New Jersey?

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    johnwalk  over 12 years ago

    Yes, They do this on the highway already but take others with them.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    Wonder how many twitter followers they have?

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    fixer1967  over 12 years ago

    I seen a man just yesterday texting and walked right into a telephone pole.

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    MeanBob, you got me man, if it were morning I would have done a coffee spit take on my keyboard…But tonight it was whiskey………

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    Here’s an idea, no charge. Teacher tells the students to stop texting, because she wants them to write something…..

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    Hunter7  over 12 years ago

    Go Lemmings!! … or should that be Go Texting!

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    iFerrarifan  over 12 years ago

    sorry, 2000 years older than the cities, sorry about the typo in my previous comment

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    Gyrrakavian  over 12 years ago

    It wouldn’t be allowed. There are too many laws that keep stupid people from offing themselves in appropriate ways.

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