tao Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Woman distracted by cellphone plunges down open cellar door PLAINFIELD, N.J. -- A 67-year-old woman who was walking down a New Jersey street tripped over an open cellar door and tumbled into a basement. Surveillance cameras captured the incident on video. CBS New York spoke to the woman's son, who says he is grateful his mother wasn't killed. He emphasized that when people watch the video, it's important to understand that his mother is legally blind and diabetic. "When I first saw the video, my heart dropped," the woman's son said. "It was painful to watch." To many viewers, the video looks like a hard lesson in distracted walking — a woman coming down the street straight towards the wide open cellar doors in front of Acme Windows in Plainfield. Right before she reaches them, she looks down and then flips over the door, head first, tumbling six feet down to the basement below. Moments after she fell, fire crews arrived and rescued the woman, puling her out of the basement on a stretcher. Police say it appears as though the woman was distracted by her cellphone. The basement doors were open for gas line repairs. "As far as I was told, when she was walking down the street she felt a little nauseous in a sense, and looked at her phone to see what time it was," the woman's son said. Police say the woman was seriously hurt, but she is now in stable condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Stupid humans is the latest fad...hopefully this, too, shall pass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Someone suffering personal injuries for incorrect use of cellphones is a personal problem. In this particular case, the lady was seriously hurt, but she only damaged herself. By the way, I dont find the case funny, at all! It's a dramatic reality! The real danger is in all those millions of cellphone and worse even, smartphone users manipulating phones: calling, checking calls, texting and even accessing interet functions like twitter, facebook, instagram, news and even youtube WHILE DRIVING with the awerness of an out of his mind dumb drunk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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