Thursday, May 19, 2011

Keeping the phone in hand gives us no sense of it

Advocates of good sense and good education about the use of gadgets of any kind had two small victories this week. An Italian bus driver was removed from his professional activities after he was caught - on video - using no less than two phones while carrying its passengers through the streets of Rome, a city that is known for having a chaotic traffic enough to make the rush hour in St. Paul looks like a racetrack.

Speaking at one of the machines, used another (apparently a BlackBerry) to send a text message without regard to the comments and the flashes of cameras that recorded the moment. Since the noble art direction was handled by your elbow, check out:

In the U.S. a boring woman named Lakeysha Beard, 39, was ejected from a train after getting no less than 16 hours of uninterrupted talking loudly on a cell phone, to the despair of those who accompanied her on a wagon Silent (where people tend , look, and sleep is forbidden to use the phone) company Amtrak, which was a long journey of over 1,000 km between the cities Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon.

According to the information, the woman became "aggressive" after the other poor passengers asked her to keep quiet and was "driven out" of the premises by the authorities in a town close to its final destination. In her defense, she said "was actually talking on the phone but did not understand why other people were bothered." See his glorious exit from the train:

Here are videos of these two incidents.