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sarisataka

(18,497 posts)
Thu May 28, 2015, 06:12 PM May 2015

Being distracted on your phone can bite you in the ass

or at least the leg:

Man steps on a snake while busy on smartphone
May 28, 2015 by David Strege


A man walking to work while concentrating on his smartphone showed why one shouldn’t walk while concentrating on their smartphone because you never know what you might run into—like a snake, for instance.

Tim Malone, a DJ at OK Skateland in Chickasha, Oklahoma, learned this lesson the hard way, as surveillance video from inside OK Skateland showed:
video:
http://www.whdh.com/clip/11539875/oklahoma-man-bitten-by-snake-in-parking-lot

While on his way to work, Malone was studiously attending to his smartphone, not paying any attention to where he was walking, when he stepped on a four-foot bull snake, which went into attack mode and bit him in the leg.
http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/man-steps-on-a-snake-while-busy-on-smartphone/#k22e3eCtuFQy44yh.97

I wonder if he'll pay more attention where he steps? Nah, more like the snake will pay more attention to people with phones.
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