AK woman falls off cliff while texting. Stupid should hurt, glad she's ok.

[powderman]

Alaska woman falls off 60-foot cliff while texting  Published September 27, 2012
Associated Press    KODIAK, Alaska –  Emergency responders in Kodiak say they had to overcome the challenges of a cliff as well as an incoming tide to rescue a woman who fell 60 feet onto rocks.
Maria Pestrikoff survived the fall Sept. 17 and is recovering in an Anchorage hospital.
The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports she slipped as she was texting on her phone at the same time she tried to toss a cigarette butt over the cliff edge.
 
Her friend Anthony Burke heard her screams from the rocks below and called emergency responders.
 
Firefighters from the Bayside and Kodiak fire departments rushed to the accident scene.
Pestrikoff was just 10 feet from the incoming tide. She was placed in a rolled stretcher and hauled up the cliff to an ambulance.

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[Sourdough]

Can't fix stupid.

[Conan The Librarian]

At least she wasn't driving at the time. The most unusual and scary example of texting I've seen was a woman who was so transfixed on her texting that she almost walked into a closed elevator door, but the door opened just as she got to it. She walked in, bumped into the wall, hardly skipped a beat, backed away from the wall and kept texting. The elevator door closed, and judging by the directional arrow was headed up at least 15 floors because floor 15 was the first stop for that particular elevator (a common practice in tall buildings, some elevators only service a range of floors). I wonder what was so interesting to her.

[Sourdough]

Had a woman fall into the motorized shopping cart in a department store.  I saw her coming and stopped, I started yelling and she ignored me.  I could not back up since there were kids behind me.  She bumped into the basket and fell across the basket.  Her chest hit the far side and her head went on over almost hitting the floor.  Her arms and phone was in the basket.  She was hurt since she was not able to help catch herself with her arms, before she was hitting the basket.  All the people who had been drawn by my yelling saw it and started laughing at her.  A couple of guys helped her up and she ran off.  Her phone was left in the basket, I turned it in at Customer Service.