Tourist walks off a pier while checking Facebook on her phone
Posted by Josh Taylor / December 18, 2013
We’ve all done silly things while distracted by our phones, but this Taiwanese tourist might just take the cake. While vacationing in Australia, she accidentally walked right off a pier:
Senior Constable Dean Kelly of the water police said officers found her floating metres from the pier.
“She was still out in the water laying on her back in a floating position because she told us later that she couldn’t swim,” the Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoted him as saying.
“She still had her mobile phone in her hand and initially she apologised… she said ‘I was checking my Facebook page on the phone and I’ve fallen in’.”
I feel better about stumbling on the sidewalk yesterday while texting…
Full story at BBC News.
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