{"id":1061,"date":"2012-04-26T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:34","slug":"lets-all-be-careful-out-there-with-our-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/lets-all-be-careful-out-there-with-our-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s all be careful out there with our cell phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/phone-21.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1062\" title=\"phone-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/phone-21.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1062 lazyload\" title=\"phone-2\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/phone-21.gif\"><\/a>Much has been said about the dangers of cell phones and driving, but relatively little has been discussed about the dangers that these devices pose while their users are walking.&nbsp; Yet the occasional news report does indicate that walking while texting or talking actually has some drawbacks too.&nbsp; Many Americans saw a recent video of a woman in the mall who was texting as she strolled along; she walked straight into a fountain and toppled in.&nbsp; The video went viral, most likely more because it was hilarious than because people were taking it as a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>This was not the only troubling incident of \u2018texting while walking\u2019 accident.&nbsp; There was also a woman who fell not into a shallow fountain, but into Lake Michigan itself.&nbsp; Recently in China, a girl was so deeply engrossed in her cell phone usage that she vanished down a sinkhole created by water running beneath the surface of the street.&nbsp; Of course, that could have happened do anyone walking along; the troubling part of this tale is that according to reports, she vanished without even yelping or calling out.&nbsp; It was as though she were so wrapped up in her cell phone that she did not notice that she had vanished beneath the surface of the earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The old TV show <em>Hill Street Blues<\/em> used to have each morning meeting of police officers end with the admonition to &#8220;be careful out there.&#8221; Something similar could be said of cell phone usage.&nbsp; To text while walking is not illegal, but it does have its dangers.&nbsp; We would all do well to &#8220;be careful out 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