Comments on: Cellphones can kill you http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/17/cellphones-can-kill-you/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:00:35 -0500 hourly 1 By: Alan Wilensky http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/17/cellphones-can-kill-you/comment-page-1/#comment-526427 Alan Wilensky Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:46:26 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/11/17/cellphones-can-kill-you/#comment-526427 We have people completely unplugged from their immediate environment because they are plugged into earbuds and BT headsets. I'm somewhat guilty of the later, but I try and stay aware. A young woman almost toppled into the BART train the other day, if it had not been for a citizen with quick reflexes. She was bopping with her ipod, and slowly backing up towards the trench, and took almost one step too many, she actually stumbled and lost her balance as the train was beeping into Montgomery st. station. The hero caught her by the backpack strap, swung her around, and he got on the train. She never took off her ear buds, and didn't reach out to thank him - actually, she looked a little put out! We have people completely unplugged from their immediate environment because they are plugged into earbuds and BT headsets. I’m somewhat guilty of the later, but I try and stay aware.

A young woman almost toppled into the BART train the other day, if it had not been for a citizen with quick reflexes. She was bopping with her ipod, and slowly backing up towards the trench, and took almost one step too many, she actually stumbled and lost her balance as the train was beeping into Montgomery st. station. The hero caught her by the backpack strap, swung her around, and he got on the train.

She never took off her ear buds, and didn’t reach out to thank him – actually, she looked a little put out!

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