Posted on 05/29/2015 1:35:43 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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:
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Now that I have an iPhone 6+, I’m guilty of Freeping in Public.
Thanks for posting, and I’m thanking my lucky stars. For the past few weeks, my walking trail has been flooded in numerous areas. My initial reaction was “no big deal, I’ll get a bit wet.” Halfway through the first area, I remembered that water moccasins thrive along the Trinity River. Since then, I’ve detoured the flooded areas.
You’re welcome..stay safe, and dry. I understand you’re in for MORE rain...
How do you download that app? lol. I like your tagline.
I’m not addicted to FreeRepublic. I can quit at anytime. ;)
Chuck Norris was bitten by a snake and after 3 days of excrutiating pain, the snake died.
I haven’t stepped on a snake since I got a smart phone. Before that, I probably averaged once a year.
One of the uses of her smart phone that I like is when there's a song on the radio and we don't know the name of the band or the singer, she can use her phone to find out by using an app on the phone that identifies the recording. I am impressed by that.
Isn’t that the truth? We’ve had people hit by the light rail system, because they stepped in front of a train, not paying any attention. I work on a college campus. It’s a target rich environment! There are times when classes let out that you cannot get down certain hallways due to kids aimlessly wandering toward their next class, heads down, eyes glued to their phones, oblivious to the fact there are others around them, or that they’re blocking the flow of traffic.
I use my snake avoidance app when I walk in the woods.
I carry my snake riddance app always.
And my homemade jungle jelly gets rid of the pesky ones that like to hid in holes.
I always use the camera app when I walk outside. That way I can look at the phone and see where I’m walking at the same time.
I’ve got a smart phone but it sits home unless the wife and I are out on the motorcycle and we carry it for a couple reasons 1). We breakdown 2). Weather
I’m always getting asked, “Did you get the text I sent you?” my response is I couldn’t tell you the phoones at the home or still on my bike.
There’s nothing wrong with having a smart phone. It’s just that it’s now like a national mania. People playing with a communicating device while shutting out human communication in the immediate area. It’s like if everybody pulled out a yoyo and started doing tricks. Just weird.
I saw movement with my peripheral vision, saw the bear, and almost crapped my pants. I looked around for cubs (so I didn’t inadvertently move closer to them), picked up a nice thick stick in my right hand, took hold of pepper spray in my left, then raised my arms and yelled at it moving slowly forward. It turned around and loped away.
I wasn’t being brave, but knew that I had to keep it away; I was a couple of miles from help, nowhere near marked trails, and couldn’t have it follow me. Last fall in northern NJ a college student was killed by a black bear; it had been following a couple of hikers, who warned a group of five students about it. They ignored the advice to turn back, and ended up running into it. They scattered, and it killed one of them. I think if the pair of hikers that had originally encountered it had scared it (instead of piquing its curiosity), that might have ended differently.
I had to convinve the bear that I wanted to eat its heart for lunch; inside I was terrified. The best way to describe it was that I could “hear my heart pounding”...
One thing that struck me was the bear never made a sound throughout the whole encounter (which probably lasted no more than thirty seconds); even as it headed away it was silent...
No; it was sitting still looking at me. Even when I scared it away it was silent as it headed away over a hill.
This happened two months ago (in early spring, before overgrowth would cover the hills); it stood out against the brown and gray hillside, and could move without crashing through underbrush. If that happened now, I would have walked right into it without seeing it.
It is shield against actual conversation.
We are a people increasingly isolated by our connectivity.
That's reminiscent of the old joke ending "I don't have to outrun the bear; I just have to outrun YOU!"
In an incident that aroused a lot of discussion, about five years ago a young, male bear ran into a public park in La Crosse where people were picnicking. (how's that for alliteration?) The bear was spooked by all the people and ran up a tree. The local DNR was called out. After a short period of discussion the DNR people thought the best thing to do for the safety of the people involved (who were still watching the bear up the tree) was to shoot the bear.
Many people were angry and wanted to know why the DNR people didn't try to tranquilize the bear. The reason: they didn't have a tranquilizer gun, and they thought if the bear got down it might hurt people. Nevertheless, many people thought they should not have killed the bear. But I wonder what they would have said if the bear got down the tree and attacked and killed a child.
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