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View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest (6) Funniest 2 hours ago Your regular reminder that your phone company is probably happy to tell insurance companies whether you were on your phone if you get into an accident, and insurance companies may then rape you for the rest of your life, even if you don't end up in jail as a result. Operate a vehicle or your phone, but you're not competent to do both, no matter how sure you are that you can. /some phone companies are now selling historical use and time-positional data to the cops, too (1) Funniest THEY'RE EATING YOUR DIGITS! (2) Funniest Terminal Accessory (18) Funniest Yeah, if your kid is too dumb to look both ways before crossing the road, I'm not sure the phone is to blame. marsandzoey (3) Funniest Hopefully she learned a lesson from that. Other kids won't until it happens to them. And adults Weight Lifting Elitist (4) Funniest Thank God for dashcams otherwise the driver would be in trouble. I hope the kid makes a full recovery and looks both ways before crossing the street from now on. (4) Funniest Easy solve: WKRP in Cincinnati - THE PHONE COPS! sinko swimo (2) Funniest RandomAxe: Your regular reminder that your phone company is probably happy to tell insurance companies whether you were on your phone if you get into an accident, and insurance companies may then rape you for the rest of your life, even if you don't end up in jail as a result. Operate a vehicle or your phone, but you're not competent to do both, no matter how sure you are that you can. /some phone companies are now selling historical use and time-positional data to the cops, too what telco do you work for that you have have all this impressive inside information? because it reads like BS to me. (2) Funniest I do interoffice deliveries. There is this one location I dread visiting because there are way too many people exercising / wandering the parking lot while on their phones. I literally had a pedestrian on the phone stop behind my car as I'm backing out. You know it's bad when you have to send business-wide e-mails about it. (3) Funniest WhatsSoGodDamnPunny (0) Funniest Man the new 28 Years Later movie is far more terrifying than I thought it would be Sin_City_Superhero (3) Funniest You didn't teach your 12 year old kid to look both ways before crossing the road? Father of the Year right there. (3) Funniest Two16: Easy solve: [i.ytimg.com image 480x360] [iFrame https://www.youtube.com/embed/cTPzTG1Lx60?autoplay=1&widget_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fark.com&start=0&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fark.com&widgetid=1&forigin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fark.com%2Fcomments%2F13718744%2FSuddenly-phone-zombies%3Ffpost%3Dm-aj9AMX2kE._._C9dXDSUqCiVcUbhxKYMVxkPtPRN3ze5DKiw62UwW%23new&aoriginsup=1&gporigin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fark.com%2Fcomments%2F13718744%2FSuddenly-phone-zombies&vf=6] One of the funnier WKRP episodes. People born after the "MaBell" breakup probably wouldn't get it today. Back then, there was pretty much one phone company, one rate, you waited til after 10pm to make a cheaper long distance call (basically anything outside your prefix). StayAtHomeAstronaut (5) Funniest Terminal Accessory: Yeah, if your kid is too dumb to look both ways before crossing the road, I'm not sure the phone is to blame. Speak the truth. Sucks for her, but she only has herself to blame. And now some poor bastard has to relive the horror of hitting a 12 year old through no fault of their own for the rest of their lives. Hell I look both ways even on a one way street. It's habit no matter where you are. hammettman (2) Funniest Always look both ways Kids: Horizontal and vertical? (1) Funniest marsandzoey: Hopefully she learned a lesson from that. Other kids won't until it happens to them. And adults Might have "knocked" some sense into her? (0) Funniest sinko swimo: RandomAxe: Your regular reminder that your phone company is probably happy to tell insurance companies whether you were on your phone if you get into an accident, and insurance companies may then rape you for the rest of your life, even if you don't end up in jail as a result. Operate a vehicle or your phone, but you're not competent to do both, no matter how sure you are that you can. /some phone companies are now selling historical use and time-positional data to the cops, too what telco do you work for that you have have all this impressive inside information? because it reads like BS to me. Do you really not understand how all of this stuff works? (1) Funniest RandomAxe: Your regular reminder that your phone company is probably happy to tell insurance companies whether you were on your phone if you get into an accident, and insurance companies may then rape you for the rest of your life, even if you don't end up in jail as a result. Operate a vehicle or your phone, but you're not competent to do both, no matter how sure you are that you can. /some phone companies are now selling historical use and time-positional data to the cops, too I was sent to the hospital by a guy who was paying suspiciously less attention than the others when he ran into my stalled car. The only thing that happened in the area of investigating if the other driver was on his phone was the cop who did the accident report thought he had a basic idea as to what was going on. I even got a lawyer who talked to everyone at the scene, including the construction workers, and did all kinds of research. Maybe the phone companies would talk to the police or the insurer if they asked, but they won't talk to just anyone, not even an accident lawyer. /Hell, the other guy's insurer tried to trick me into talking to them with a carefully-worded mailer. //I still got a good settlement. (2) Funniest I mentioned this under the article, before the locals got a little too personal about the underage girl that was injured forcing them to disable comments, but every now and again I'm asked to drive one of the trucks when a driver is taking a day off (the selfish git). As I'm exiting our yard onto the main road, more often than not I'll have to wait for a gap in the stupidly fast traffic, which is between 2 drop kerbs. I've lost count of the number of times a person, of any age, steps off one of the paths, heading for the other, their face planted in their tiny screens and all peripheral vision ignored, walking straight towards the side of my very large, very obvious and above all, very green truck. If I'm feeling helpful, i'll give them plenty of warning. If I'm feeling mischievous, I'll wait until the very last second before shouting at them to 'watch out', but if I'm in a bad mood, or I just don't like the look of them, I'll just wipe the face imprint off the paintwork later (1) Funniest sinko swimo: RandomAxe: Your regular reminder that your phone company is probably happy to tell insurance companies whether you were on your phone if you get into an accident, and insurance companies may then rape you for the rest of your life, even if you don't end up in jail as a result. Operate a vehicle or your phone, but you're not competent to do both, no matter how sure you are that you can. /some phone companies are now selling historical use and time-positional data to the cops, too what telco do you work for that you have have all this impressive inside information? because it reads like BS to me. If the phone company won't tell, the insurers attorney can subpoena it. And depending on your state, that could prevent you from recovering damages in a lawsuit. If insurance companies can find a way not to pay you they absolutely will, and distracted driving is a crime in more than a few states now. No_Clever_Username (2) Funniest 35 minutes ago Very disappointed. Not the phone zombies I expected at all. I feel mislead. (0) Funniest 31 minutes ago Bring back Darth Vader The Green Cross man The Green Cross Code Man - 1976 David Prowse (Darth Vader) - HD 1080p CSB: I met Dave in this guise when I was 7. I remember it was 1980 as just before he left the school assembly hall (Where's spent an hour teaching us about road safety, as well as singing), he reminded us all to go see him in Empire at our local cinema. I was 7 and British. Had no idea of what he was talking about. Madman drummers bummers (0) Funniest 35 minutes ago (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago Gyrfalcon: and distracted driving is a crime in more than a few states now. Merely holding a phone while driving is a criminal offence in the UK now https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law Greta_VanHouten (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago (0) Funniest 31 minutes ago No_Clever_Username: Very disappointed. Not the phone zombies I expected at all. I feel mislead. [Fark user image 300x400] Came to post this. I actually really enjoy that book, the movie on the other hand... And yeah, this shiat is annoying as hell. In downtown Minneapolis we have skyways that I go walking about in on my in-office days. The amount of people just staring directly in to their phones, usually headphones in or just letting it blare, and not paying attention at all is impressive. They either manage to see a person at the last second but usually have to be dodged around. I've debated just clipping them, but it really wouldn't be worth the time. StayAtHomeAstronaut: Terminal Accessory: Yeah, if your kid is too dumb to look both ways before crossing the road, I'm not sure the phone is to blame. Speak the truth. Sucks for her, but she only has herself to blame. And now some poor bastard has to relive the horror of hitting a 12 year old through no fault of their own for the rest of their lives. Hell I look both ways even on a one way street. It's habit no matter where you are. This goes for when I'm walking around the neighbor 100%. Not a day goes by in Uptown that I don't see vehicles going the wrong way down a one way. A lot of the time not even on accident, it's just more convenient for them to go "well it's only a block or a little ways" then to go the fark around in the correct direction and take a few more minutes out of their day. I'm just astounded that someone can see parked cars on both sides of the street pointing at them, as well as cars coming towards them in all lanes and still not deduce that maybe they're going the wrong farking way. Buckaroo Beeblebrox (0) Funniest 36 minutes ago Every stop light there's some driver next to me who'd obviously say "bbbbut I'm not driving"... "WHAT SEAT ARE YOU IN? WHAT GEAR ARE YOU IN? NOT DRIVING, MY ASS!!" farkitallletitend (0) Funniest 36 minutes ago She'll be texting and driving by 17. She is alive right? DRTA. (0) Funniest 35 minutes ago This must happen everyday somewhere. (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago No one plays cell phone pinball on the sidewalk with friends? Look ahead at people on their phones walking toward you. Step into their path and stop. Have to give them at least 6 to 8 ft. If they run into you, you get a point. yakmans_dad (0) Funniest 1 minute ago For years I've marveled at the number of people who assume that because pedestrians have the Right of Way that there is no need to look up from what they're doing to determine what automobiles may be doing. You can be in the right and still be dead. That became a sort of mantra for me when we were teaching the kids to drive. When I was a TA, I was preparing a lecture in my mind when I stepped from the curb and was suddenly going in reverse. One of the UK basketball team had reached out, grabbed my backpack, and had pulled me back from getting flattened by an oncoming bus. So, I know whereof I speak. You can't count on athletes to save your life for you. You need to look at the world from time to time. Preferably whenever you're crossing the street. Always Safety First mildlydisturbed (0) Funniest less than a minute ago My kids were banned from devices and walking, then I discovered whether they had the device or not they didn't really seem to exist in the world they were in (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Ghost Roach (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Weaver95: sinko swimo: RandomAxe: Your regular reminder that your phone company is probably happy to tell insurance companies whether you were on your phone if you get into an accident, and insurance companies may then rape you for the rest of your life, even if you don't end up in jail as a result. Operate a vehicle or your phone, but you're not competent to do both, no matter how sure you are that you can. /some phone companies are now selling historical use and time-positional data to the cops, too what telco do you work for that you have have all this impressive inside information? because it reads like BS to me. Do you really not understand how all of this stuff works? 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