Further proving my hypothesis that Mr. Bean is not a character but just an average self-absorbed Brit, Brick Lane authorities have found themselves forced to try out padding the city’s lampposts because idiots keep walking into them whilst texting.
I say let them bonk their heads. It’s the only way they’re going to learn.
Padding to protect pedestrians [Yahoo! News]
Thats to stop all the American tourists banging into things :)
WOW
get over yourself. americans know how to walk you brit !
you’re a complete idiot.
period.
americans are the most fat headed people in the world.
they’re completely arrogant, when in reality, all the other countries hate america.
it’s surprising that “americans know how to walk” considering their high obesity rate.
SKINNY WHITE BITCH BRIT (not all brits are bad but still actually most of the americans are not fat)
I’m not even American and I think your posts were ridiculous!
It’s people like you that make this world so f***ed.
Grow up.
Why not just give the text’ers helmets rather than cluttering up ornate light posts.
If this works we can pad every teen’s car, to help them when they crash into the other teen that they’re texting.
Whoever came up with that idea needs to be put on a island alone for thirty days to reflect the events that lead them to point where they thought something like this is a good idea.
Forget pads. Put spikes on them.
I say just don’t pad the posts and let the texters learn their lesson by bonking into the damn things…
Take off all the baby bumpers and let Darwinism take course
PRICK… stop stealing quotes from sxephil.
haha thats halarious
im gonna go there and take pics of peeple bumpin into em
y is there only padding on one side of the post?
LOL . thats funny.
they shud learn how 2 text without looking
Not true
Failed attempt to make brittish people look stupid
We’re not stupid
Just most of us are gay wankers who need locking away
(happy face)
oh of course like every lampost has has pads, i bet its like 5 in some place with loads of dumb sloanes.
This story is actually an advertising stunt. A company called 118118, which is a directory enquiries service aimed at the 18-35 market in the UK sponsored the idea. If you see a front on shot of the padding, you’ll see their branding.
They pushed the story all over the traditional and digital news with some statistic that lots of people were getting hurt while texting on the move.
Looks like it’s working as well… just not in the right way as we Brits do, on the surface of articles like this seem a bit dumb!
Happy Birthday, Matt!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/padded-lampposts-in-london-not-really-being-tested/
and watch out for that Bigfoot Vampire baby I read about in the Weekly World News!
I find this funny, to that one guy who stole that line from sxephil, your not him, so don’t try. No I’m not picking a fight, because that’s more ridiculous than pads on a lamp post. How ironic. And people should not be texting while walking down a street any way, don’t they have anything better to do? Is there a problem with calling the person? The conversation would go by a lot quicker I can tell you that right now, three hours of texting one person is the equivalent of a ten minute phone call, unless you have lightening fingers, then it’s probably the equivalent of a one hour phone call.
Sorry americans but not all of England are douchbags These are just part of the 78% :P Yes i am from england. AMERICA ROCKS :D