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Want to See a British Woman Stumble Into a Freezing Canal While Texting?

Jan. 25, 2013 8:37am Liz Klimas

A British broadcast journalist has become the latest example of the hazards of texting while walking.

CCTV cameras in the U.K.’s Birmingham Mailbox district caught Laura Safe, who is a morning newsreader for Capital radio, texting her boyfriend as she walked down a set of stairs, the Daily Telegraph reported. The next thing we know, there’s a splash and a frantic escape from the frigid water.

British Broadcaster Laura Safe Caught on Video Texting and Falling Into Freezing Water

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

The man seen at the beginning of the footage on the right of the screen rushed to help Safe out of the canal.

Watch the video obtained by the Telegraph:

Safe was not injured in the incident and has been good natured about her embarrassing plunge caught on video on Twitter.

British Broadcaster Laura Safe Caught on Video Texting and Falling Into Freezing Water

This is by no means the first time people have been caught on tape while getting into texting while walking accidents. In fact, it’s also not the first time we’ve reported on someone falling into the water while doing so.

The danger of texting while walking has apparently become such an epidemic in some towns that fines are being enacted or at least considered.

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(H/T: Gawker)

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Wisdom7
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 2:20pm
Funny that her last name is “Safe”.

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- Go Glenn
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:32pm
  There are lots of ironies around us……..Bernie Madoff…made off with billions
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 2:03pm
Hahahah!

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- pavepaws
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:34pm
  A member of the media.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 2:02pm
Yeah that’s pretty stupid on her part.

That’s a pretty stupid layout for that area though. A set of stairs that lead straight into a canal. That isn’t an accident waiting to happen or anything.

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gwiii
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:47pm
The thing I find quite odd about texting is that you have to use a phone to do it. Not only that, but you have to have the other persons phone number. Why not place a call.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 2:04pm
  Exactly!
  
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- apexmoon
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:26pm
  @GWIII
  
  What world do you live in? Nobody actually calls anymore.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 5:05pm
  I agree, but I think I text when I want to make contact for a reason without having to be on the line for a long time. Poor gal, but it was pretty funny.
  
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yoshik
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:20pm
Good deal. Now if we could get footage like that of Obama meeting with Morsi that wouold be great.

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3-Blue
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:19pm
WOW BLAZE!

Hire some proof readers. You don’t even need to splurge on editors. But be careful. A lot of young people don’t know how to compose English!

“This is by no means the first time people have been caught on tape while getting into texting while walking accidents.”

Should be: This is by no means the first time people have been caught on tape texting, while getting into walking accidents.

OBVIOUSLY!

These stupid mistakes are all over the place in the Blaze. It makes you look bad!!!

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- CEM
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 2:30pm
  No, your sentence sounds awkward. Just put hyphens between the words ”texting while walking.”
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:38pm
  CEM:
  You’re right. I like yours better…. :)
  
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FaithfulFriend
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:58pm
Obviously they are just one of their entire population being surveilled, monitored, reviewed and made public. Of course before they were surveilled, monitored, reviewed and made public, they were disarmed.

All for their own safety of course.

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suzpenn
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:08pm
Another stupid video about texting while walking? Really? No, I don’t want to see this. Come on Blaze.
With the temperatures and people freezing on Staten Island and surrounding areas, this site could serve a much better purpose if you stay on top that story. Ask them if they still trust the government . . . Bloomberg, Cuomo, Napolitano, Shummer, and Obama. This is *********!

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hi
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 12:01pm
That was funny!

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cessna152
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:19am
I guess it’s time to ban phones or canals

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- DebateMe
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:50am
  @cessna152
  Agreed. And while the banning of canals gets underway, let’s not forget the lawsuit. The owner of the canal should know better that people who would climb inside their smartphones would if they could – will walk right into the freezing cold canal. Canal owners are angry misfits who hate texters. /sarcasm off
  
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- apexmoon
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:30pm
  @debateme
  
  I see it differently. I think the canal owner should sue the texter for getting his water dirty. The use that money to hire laywers to try and defeat the anti-canal bill that’s sure to come.
  
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- DebateMe
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 12:35pm
  @apexmoon
  While I tend to agree with you here’s the problem. In today’s global environment, anyone who has just about anything at all is now considered ‘rich.’ Whoever owns the canal is a ‘rich fat cat.’ If you sell hot dogs out of a hot dog cart on a street corner, you’re a ‘rich fat cat’ now. So organizations like the ACLU will come to the ‘rescue’ of the idiot who fell in the water. The media will chime in with made up facts about wrongs the canal owner has committed in the past. Oprah will have a touching interview with the idiot texter garning her addulation across the globe. The majority electorate around the world that votes for the likes of obama and hollande will be tripping over each other to chime in about how swell they think this woman is and how evil they think the canal owner is. Given all this, it’s unlikely the canal owner will fight back. It’s more likely they’d settle.
  
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spfoam1
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:41am
I thought it was going to be Piers Morgan. What a let down.

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grimmster
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:31am
Idiot.whats worse, is these same idiots,text while driving,good thing for me, my truck is bigger than any prius out there.Some day,one of these fools is going to get a harsh lesson,then next time one texts their dumbass into my lane……

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- apexmoon
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:36pm
  yeah, because texters only drive prius’. Wait until the guy in the hummer in the next lane starts doing it.
  
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omgfolks
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:21am
OH NO! Another smartphone dumba##, People are way to stupid to let that littel phone run their lives, What are they going to do when the power goes off?

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Nahash
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:56am
now they’ll put concrete blocks and rails around that canal, it’ll be beautiful

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crawdad
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:48am
There’s a time for texting and a time for swimming. And they don’t overlap.

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RamonPreston
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:48am
When you go for a job interview they look at your clothes, see if your shoes are shined and want to know what you know about their company. Too bad an IQ test isn’t part of an interview.

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thegoldman
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:34am
Looking at the color of the ice and the curve in it…

Looks like she wasn’t the first…

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mrja
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:27am
“Want to See a British Woman Stumble Into a Freezing Canal While Texting?” Yes i do

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huey6367
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:00am
Idiot. Notice she can’t stop talking.

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Metallicat
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:58am
Gotta love the Brits ability to laugh at themselves. If this was in America,there’d be a lawsuit against the person who posted the video.

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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:58am
Ya know people really are stupid.
Not sure when it happened but damn we are becoming a bunch of idiots.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:55am
How many more innocents must suffer? Obviously, it’s time to BAN WATER.

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RIGS
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:50am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good for her maybe she will pay attention and be polite to other people around her. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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- CatB
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:08am
  Agree … I don’t know how many times I have gotten out of the way for someone not paying attention, most of the time texting .. now if I see them coming I stop and plant my feet .. if they hit me they know it ..
  
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VetMike
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:49am
There should be a penalty for being this stupid. I’ve seen way too many people driving and texting to be startled by it any more. I’ve almost been run off the road by someone texting. I’ve even seen a driver doing 60 MPH while working on his laptop.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:48am
This is a feel good story and maybe she learned something in the process.

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- apexmoon
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 3:39pm
  Soon to be a Lifetime move of the week!
  
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