Comments on: Texting while walking claims another victim, woman falls off pier

By: Alfred Bundy

Alfred Bundy — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:59:50 +0000

Like I have said before, human stupidity and imbecilism is at an all time high like NEVER BEFORE in history! Funny how tech that makes normal people smarter, makes the majority stupider with social bs virtual world losers and these texting morons. When society needs to tell one that they can not look away from the road and still drive a car, SOMETHING IS SOOOOOOOOOOO WRONG WITH THAT SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Penny Wu

Penny Wu — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:05:17 +0000

Or she had the only set of keys to the Range Rover.

By: Karla K Gargus-Kean

Karla K Gargus-Kean — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:05:27 +0000

Oh my! You really CAN’T fix STUPID!

By: Frank Lee

Frank Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:00:08 +0000

Well, George, it’s all good, clean fun – at least until someone begins to take things too seriously. ;-)

By: Frank Lee

Frank Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:57:20 +0000

Me too, but we sure had a lot of good jokes at his wake!

By: Frank Lee

Frank Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:55:44 +0000

You know, folks, we all do silly things at times, so let's have a little compassion for this poor - but pathetic woman who is so addicted to a telephone.

Still, I saw a beauty on the TNC the other day... this incurably stupid school bus driver rear-ended a truck while he was texting. Kids were flying all over the place like little super-heroes as the schoolbus-cam recorded the action.

it was like a scene from 2001, A Space Odyssey, when Kier Dullea (Dave) was trying to get back into the spacecraft after HAL lost his mind and locked him out. He managed to regain entry, but was bouncing around like a ball in a Bingo machine.

I don't think he had a civil conversation with HAL after that, but heck, who could blame him?

By: GeorgeH

GeorgeH — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:45:22 +0000

You’re right. I could have said, “The egregious misuse of “if” for “whether” is a similar egregious misuse of the language.” Or, some other.

By: Frank Lee

Frank Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:43:33 +0000

The natural replies to this question would be "No, you may not have my permission to do so" or on the other hand, "Since you are capable of communicating orally, your question answers itself."

I'd bet a month's pay - if I had to work - that you and I could play this silly game for a long time.

Can I quit?

By: Frank Lee

Frank Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:33:48 +0000

“Similarly for the egregious misuse of “if” for “whether.”

I feel confident you know that “Similarly for the egregious misuse of “if” for “whether.” is not a properly constructed sentence – at least in the English language.

By: Frank Lee

Frank Lee — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0000

What’s your point? Your #5 clearly applies.

By: GeorgeH

GeorgeH — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:57:24 +0000

5.
may; have permission to: Can I speak to you for a moment?

This usage is included as a definition only for reference because of the egregious misuse of "can" for "may." (Notice that it is heavily misused by children during their first years of learning how to use language.) Similarly for the egregious misuse of "if" for "whether." People against destruction of language and communication, arise!

By: homosexualityisforgaypeople

homosexualityisforgaypeople — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:14:20 +0000

Can:

1.

to be able to; have the ability, power, or skill to: She can solve the problem easily, I’m sure.

2.

to know how to: He can play chess, although he’s not particularly good at it.

3.

to have the power or means to: A dictator can impose his will on the people.

4.

to have the right or qualifications to: He can change whatever he wishes in the script.

5.

may; have permission to: Can I speak to you for a moment?

By: Solomon Wisdom

Solomon Wisdom — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:36:43 +0000

A husband willing to jump in the water to save his wife? They must be newlyweds….

By: Sam Silver

Sam Silver — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:07:21 +0000

that is the stupidest comment I have ever heard saying that natural selection is like hilter’s theology. Two different topics, two different.. in fact it’s so stupid I’m not going to waste my time explaining to you how stupid that was.

By: faye62

faye62 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:42:56 +0000

No they’re not… They’re in Hell …All these comments about “natural selection” sounds like Hilter’s theology of a master race…..

By: Frank Lee

Frank Lee — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:16:48 +0000

That’s “May” I see your grammar Nazi papers, please?”

By: EllisF

EllisF — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:21:22 +0000

Isn’t natural selection wonderful? Now, not only are stupid people being removed from the gene pool by buses, taxis, trains, cliffs, and rivers (not to mention the occasional armed antisocial type with a gun, and the right of way), but rude, selfish, clueless asses are, too! I say, more texting by the stupid! It can only do our genetic future good!

By: Sam Silver

Sam Silver — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:46:05 +0000

too bad. Stupid people should die more often.

By: Sam Silver

Sam Silver — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:45:30 +0000

Darwin and Newton are high-fiving each other.

By: Ron Salzer

Ron Salzer — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:23:15 +0000

She is not dead.She went on television to warn others.

By: jesterking

jesterking — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:36:53 +0000

My apologies. I know the internet is serious business and grammar is of utmost importance to anal retentive trolls. Can I see your grammar Nazi papers please?

By: Ashley Dawn van Huis

Ashley Dawn van Huis — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:06:33 +0000

This comment is coming from someone who cannot properly use the possessive form of “it.”

By: Luke John

Luke John — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:19:41 +0000

Of course she will now be suing the city for having a too-short pier, the cell-phone manufacturer for whatever and probably the Federal government for letting the river water get too cold.

She should also sue her parents for having such a dumb daughter.

By: JoAnne Shea

JoAnne Shea — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:33:07 +0000

Idiots.

By: bobdan

bobdan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:11:19 +0000

Umm, she is dead.

By: teswole

teswole — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:21:46 +0000

I lost a good friend, while he was jogging answered a text or phone call and walked out in front of a car and got hit by a passing car at 50mph….

By: Tom Pajak

Tom Pajak — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:31:50 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

By: Anthony Menghini

Anthony Menghini — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:26:20 +0000

How is she a victim? Stupid is as stupid does.

By: jesterking

jesterking — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:03:05 +0000

I don’t call her a “victim”. I call her a candidate for a Darwin award. In other words, natural selection at it’s finest.

By: jesterking

jesterking — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:02:04 +0000

In some places... It already is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/20/us-fines-texting-and-walking