More here: Deaths of Headphone-Wearing Pedestrians Increase, Study Finds - BusinessweekQuote:
The number of headphone-wearing pedestrians seriously injured or killed near roadways and railways has tripled in six years, according to a U.S. study.
The number of cases rose from 16 in 2004-2005 to 47 in 2010-2011, according to the research published today in the online journal Injury Prevention.
What we have here is a failure to think !! :doh:
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Thin the herd.
Not sure why 'Survivor' is on anymore, all that bamboo much cost a pretty penny. Just send some stringers out to film people with earbuds in and their noses glued to their phones as they walk the streets and we'd have an unlimited supply of real reality-tv as they plow into street poles, trip down stairs, fall down open manhole covers and otherwise humiliate themselves in a variety of amusing ways.
Wait. CBS, this was my idea.