I am not sure how it’s justice that somebody was injured for minding their own business. How would using a cell phone at a noisy outdoor sporting event disturb anybody? The war against cell phones is just another collectivist travesty.
I did not watch the video so for all I know the phone user was assaulting somebody with the phone. In which case I apologize. Or if there is a no talking rule at that park.
I agree. Somehow it’s a crime against nature to talk on a cell phone but talking to the guy next to me is just being neighborly. I assume it’s a holdover of envy from back when only the rich had cell phones.
Obviously you know a lot more about "collectivist travesties" (Howard Cosell is that you? I thought you were dead.) than you do about baseball.
Front row seats wasted on a “chatter” is the only crime I can surmise.
Ballpark tip: Don’t waste your money on tickets that get you close to the action unless you are prepared to be part of the action.
Really?
When I was teaching my kids to drive, one of the first things I suggested to them was to size up the drivers around them and to give people who obviously didn't belong on the road a wide berth. A driver who has a cell phone up to his ear is prima facie evidence that he doesn't know what he is doing. You're in favor of letting people drive and operated their phones at the same time?
And if I have the seat next to this schmuck (at Yankee Stadium) why should I be forced to listen to his phone conversation. The world isn't his phone booth. (And don't tell me that it's no different than if he were talking to the guy next to him. Everyone knows it isn't; and you know it too.)
And I guess you don't walk much in NYC. It's kind of comical to watch two cell phone walkers crash into each other, but it's more annoying to have to constantly dodge these people.
Cell phones have their place, but so does common courtesy and respect for the space of others.
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I am not sure how it’s justice that somebody was injured for minding their own business.Several reasons:
A person talking on a cell phone in public is rude. They are saying, by their behavior, that they do not have time for you or the world around them, because they are oh so busy and important, with other pressing matters to attend to.
They say, with their actions, that they are not part of the society they inhabit, but instead are somehow elevated above the ignorant masses that surround them.
Lastly, the idea of going to a baseball game only to call your friend is inane. The person has a responsibility to maintain awareness in that environment.
There are a lot of “GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!” Freepers who are negative against everything that is suspiciously after 1985. If their most recent cultural reference is “Cheers: The Diane Years” you may be dealing with one.