London street has record cell phone texting injuries

[TobbeStorm]

1:08 must be fake.

[xixCOOKIxix]

WTF... is this actually for real! 

[BoyleTonight]

1:12 Atleast that one looked real..

[CallMeEmaxe]

@BoyleTonight nooot xD

[FiyahArmz36]

pisses me off when people cant even pretend to fall into something! atleest get clips of real accidents

[MrTakiinoue]

me meet Assange in toilet

[dingleberrys09]

hickle-dee pickledee fashion

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[mrkiky]

you brits realize that if you do this to your streets you will instantly jump in the top 3 stupidest countries?

[TRauck1506]

1 and 10 of who ...? The dumbest people in the world?

[g20truth]

Snipers would be the most effective. Then off to the dog food factory with the worthless carcass. Phone and wallet would be paid to the sniper (or split with people paid to haul off the trash).

[sweavo]

I've seen 8 year olds do better fake accidents than those

[kitsnotkats]

I think this was a April fools day prank by ITN.

[bugalooshrimp92]

our tax money is spent on this!?? and yet more important things like univerisity funding is cut? why is our government full of retards?

[dude9469]

Well if you dont like bumping into signs, bloody well dont text and walk

[BenieBabez]

Specksavers Spring To Mind. :L

[drtydawg73]

what a bloody waste of money!!! they should bloody look where theyre going like every one else!

[1998golf]

i love the fact most of the people change direction to wal into the posts

[waytooexcited]

"its not their fault."

ummm... yes it is...?

[Champe2107]

what?? for real???

[LilJoker916]

hahahah damn they should just all get dumped into a pit i mean if you cant text and walk then you should just not exist only in england hahaha

[guitarszzz]

It's de-evolution.

[AntiStylo]

WAHAHAHAHAHHAAH egt die engelse peeps weer'qq

[AuntieLeezer]

I believe the term is "bollards," not "bar lards."

[robotracking]

WTF Next..............i know, why not have bar lards pop up from the ground just before a car gets to a zebra crossing, that way the person crossing the road will be unharmed.

Any more ideas out there ?

[djRocca1]

its blaintly a police matter haha, to get more vandals on asbo's

[michaelemily]

tired of seeing people walk and text? then search (simon says become a fan if your tired of seeing people walk and text)

[theflagbar]

Who's paying for this anyway???118118

[theflagbar]

It's only so promoters can advertise on the cushions , thats what its all about not for your .

[TheDustpile]

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[sweetypie000]

people in brick lane must be truly the dumbest people in london

and, if you look at the actual reality - people would be more inclined to be aware what's going on around them and having a kung-fu grip on their phone walking anywhere in brick lane

i know i would

[emmagpies]

this is sick!!

[coolhandluke2401]

Are these people completely fucking retarded?

[locowrestler]

@coolhandluke2401

yes the Brits Are. I ride a bicycle and have and will run down stupid people on phone.

[Jelemare]

Whaha, look in front of you once in a while. That helps too...

-"Shit's weak!"-

[PALEGRE3N]

This is ridiculous!!

[BurningFliesAlive]

is this a joke? XD

[MattSvH]

WTF LOL

[billyfairbank]

Here thanks to MyD8. LOL

[QUINACH1]

dont text...

[mignonarts]

Wow this is stupid. They really just did a report on ppl running into poles bcuz of text msg lol ..this kind of thing doesnt happen in America

[17numbtotheworld]

no in america no one bumps into poles cuz no one walks...lol...we all drive, so instead of running into poles...we americans hit each other with our cars...lol

[luisbad07]

yeah, and that's why the u.s. is the most polluted country on earth... u waste everything, and once u r in a hurry u cry like a little girl to get what u lost... believe me, i work taking calls for directv, when americans have a job, they waste their money, but whenever americans lose their jobs, they cry like little pussies to get a single dollar... what a shame!

[icrave4]

american hater?!

[TAmarante333]

It looks like something straight outta ONN (Onion News Network)

lol, dummies

[Schamrok]

helloooo, darwin awards, natural selection, anyone??? i don't see why we should be catering to those not clever enough to lift their eyes every so often.

[xxTheJesterxx]

If people are too stupid to look where they're going, then that's their own bloody fault. Maybe whacking into a few lampposts would knock some much needed sense into them.

[juniorafrifa]

They should take the soft thingys down, Idiots shouldn't be texting while on the move

[mjbeasty]

stop and then text.

[xxjustssmilexx]

Every one of those people braced themselves before they hit the pole!

[billzta2]

w.t.f?

[cheapthriIIs]

they all look like a set-up for the camera. but there again, it is london where people walk around with their heads up their own assholes most of the time.

[javeline1234]

I say take all the money donated for this charity and buy the morons bumping into shit helmets and padded rubber suits.

[PivotStorm]

it's scary every one became stupid and now we should babble rap everything for they not kill themeselvs~!

[banghiphorray]

cotton wool nation!

[suga616]

because england is rolling in exess money right??

xx

[ihatereality94]

could they come beneath some car?? it would be very sad..

[shadur1973]

so stupid it made me laugh

[hmatoo52]

i adore London

[CURTISALL]

survival of the fittest.... they should use spikes instead....

[Ahmidsviper]

is this real!!???

[bionikata]

come on man....if your bumping into street signs and various objects, isnt it reasonable to assume you could very just walk into a car or bicycle.....it is the responsibility of those with a mobile phone to watch where they are going. Enough of this bullshit. And there is a charity who aides these fucking idiots? what a load of shit.

[nightmareimage]

dude how stupid do people have to be? i can read and walk and i NEVER run into anything. i even read and walk up and down stairs...

[ziemass]

what kind of an idiot idea is that

[jezishere123]

Early April fools joke, perhaps !

[reckokicker]

im not gonna bash brits right now but i just wanna say next time you call us americans stupid fat retarded assholes...this is just gonna be one more thing i can throw back at you.

[amorzel]

hickelty pickelty fashion

[MissDisclaimer]

It has to be a joke...

[dashknight60]

lol retarded brits

[xXLimegreen0MansonXx]

If anyone is stupid enough to not watch were their going then they should be smacked.

[Y0uEnj0yMyself]

Wow true nanny state, this is almost unbelievable but they are now protecting you from lap posts as well? lol

[outled]

i dont own a mobile phone, never will, i'm sick of people hiding behind them as they walk the street, with i-pod in ear and phone in hand, they never look up and smile, they never look around at the world, there zombie like cyborgs. its common to see lone females using the phone as a distraction from taking part in life, every male passerby makes them spring out there electronic comfort blanket as they convince themselves there about to be raped! These inventions make us impotent and isolated

[206upperplayground]

uk = retards

[206upperplayground]

is eveyone in the uk retarded? i mean come on.

[outled]

as a uk citizen i can assure you that yes the UK is retarded lol but this is the news, and as such its just an advert, youll notice they mention the brand name that there selling. My brother used to be one of the cunts who makes up news stories, he worked for royal mail. He now works for an oil company and does much the same thing. 60% of the news is just advertising like this.

[xcenotaph]

thats uk for u lol.. blaming post boxes now for not being able to walk while holding a phone

[crazystrange6794]

exactly fools! this is a joke, no city would uglify their lamp posts with padding for inattentive oafs .

morons.

this just goes to show people are just too involved with their electronics these days.

[07BP]

hahahahahaha that is good

[sausagemanlorne8]

waste of money!

use your brains instead!

[qarwy]

realy very good

[swiggie15]

Wow, this just goes to show how dumb Americans are, this is obviously a joke. So quit saying the British are stupid enough to spend money on "Wrapping Lamposts".

[diamantabegovic]

Are you quite alright? The english accent, the names of UK cities being mentioned, ITN NEWS. Brick lane is in East London!

[boeing738w]

So, during one of the worst credit situations, the government had nothing better to do than pour tax-payers money into a research about people who are so busy with their mobile phone, that they don't even watch where they're going.

[7222Brit]

oh wow. How bout telling them to watch where their going instead of spending money to wrap up all the lamp posts. Gosh

[peterpedant]

wind up! :)

[Juliansja]

hahaha, omg you've got to be kidding me, are people realy so dum? there is an expression that says "watch where you're going"

simple as that no need to treat people like babies

[geoffmallan]

yep, we are dumber than ever!

[wiremanart]

makes you wonder about the theory of evolution. Well eventually grow wings and fly around. No need to pad our texting obstacles then.

[vjdubassy]

This is funny

[McKenna0VolcomSurfer]

alrighty then...

[iamsocool35]

this has got to be a joke. is this a joke?

[MaryGrace73]

lampposts should learn to move out of the way.

[downfader2]

They move for drunk drivers dont they :-D

[rocky420bear]

haha oh my lmafo and this is the place where my moms side of the family comes fr damn oh well im still a native so it's all gooD

[skaboosh]

Take the damn cusions away...we don't want them to make a habit of it!! hehe

[Bernankegreenspan]

hahahahahahahaha

I love the way they stop to look harshly at the objects that they ran into... "DAMN POLE! What the fuck is your problem?!" hahahaha

btw, I don't think the issue here is really the phones...

[gav101gav]

this is so fucking embarrassing. no suprise americans poke fun at us! why the fuck are the lampposts padded ? it makes us look like pussies

[LoveToday8]

Ha, I should hope not jakenoble. lol.

[OonniiccaA]

FUKK english ppl r so dam LMAOO

[lizlloyd]

Won't save the embarrassment of walking into a lamppost but at least it won't hurt! I say pad 'em all!

[POODITH]

This is funny

[Cemarica]

You can't blame the people! Those lightpost's jump out of nowhere.

Yeah.

[Canhas69]

LOOL...yeahhh...trust me...where do they come from? OVNIS?! xD

[jakenoble]

Hmmm, will we see ads that sound something like this son:

Have YOU been injured by a static object while walking along on your phone, well Granny State Injury Lawyers 4 U can get you compensation call us now on 0800-IAM-RTD . . . .

[FreakoutXXX]

fucking retards

[misterincome]

stupid

[ojomfeihc]

i'm speechless

[lolitterally17]

wow they put padding on lamposts so people cant hurt themselves, cuz if the posts arent protected, God knows people will walk into them. just wow

[colo19701]

idiots

.

[alexwinter666]

What a bunch of socialist retards. This news is real - the accidents in the vid are staged but they are really putting padding around lampposts in London for these idiots. Tax dollars at work in Europe....

[crazyguys2008]

So what if they want to text and walk and get killed and go to the er they can!

[GlasgowBoaby]

april fool

[jakenoble]

Apart from not being posted in April?

[gav101gav]

surely this is a joke ? how many people have been seriously injured due to texting on a mobile phone n walking in to a lamp-post? no-one. You know what they say, u cant wrap people up in cotton wool...

[kevman77]

Now i've seen it all.

[hereswhatithink]

hee hee hee  it's like real news combined with Monty Python!

[happybugz64]

The sidewalks r hard 2 nagivagate! lol rotfl o thats so sad.

[amebasviajeras]

whatever.... i love london! (L)

[fobluver2102]

I've done thats and people laugh at me. :(

[fallenfaun]

wow! yup people are getting stupid these days

[musclesdude]

Never ever seen anyone do this on the street, never come close to doing this myself. I suggest you leave the poles unpadded to teach the morons who do this a lesson. Any intelligent creature in the universe would be reserving more than 0% of their brain capacity into monitoring where they are going surely?

[dbs0]

...not having padding on the lampposts would elimate potential darwin awardees from the gene pool, which is not a bad thing.

[squidb8]

Where was all this protection when I walking and reading as a kid. Then we had to develop, situation awareness. Now we're wrapping mattresses around trees so stupid people don't get a headache. Think about it if they're in the hospital with a concussion they're not driving and talking on the phone, lives are saved.

[PocketsBBY]

faaaake. I've seen someone walk into a post, they stagger and drop. Besides, they just happened to have a cameraman squatting behind the post with the camera aimed and focused just right? Not.

[retrogamer500]

The news is real, but the shots are staged.

[ETACExtreme]

no shit PoketsBBY it's obvously fake, like no one already new that.

[Naurthon]

These collisions were clearly staged. The actors plainly telegraphed the impacts. Lack of credibility much?

They should emblazon those cushions with the slogan "You! Out of the gene pool!"

[blackisntdarkenough]

I can read while I walk

It's not very difficult

[gennytte]

You know, any other day I would have made fun of these people. But, today I ran into a "one way" sign that was leaning into the sidewalk, because I was reading while I was walking. Now, in my defense, I walk there every day and the sign doesn't usually lean into the walkway like that...it must have been hit by a motorist recently. Still, I felt pretty silly for hitting it; something that I wouldn't have done if I'd been paying attention. So, I have no room to laugh.

[Stentor7]

I agree with Christian, a lot of those look fake. But that first gent, the one at the beginning, he rebounded so hard from the pole he walked into that I thought the Land Rover rounding the corner behind him was going to ding him as well.

[christianwillis]

Some of those are so fake! That's right, throw your shoulder into the lamppost and then look surprised that it's there...

[rafarocket22]

id like to see someone actually running into a post, and not acting.

[mattessucks]

stupid.

[Vampira1331]

Hahhaa! I just need those for doors. =D

[stsimons41]

au4040. LOL. You are RIGHT. We are a countRy of morons. But don't feel bad. You seem to be almost as smart as our President. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HA

[matt0535]

Seriously.... absurd...

[AdobePhsyko]

How much should taxpayers have to spend to protect IDIOTS from themselves ?

[ilkandi]

haha, brits have a great sense of humor

[manmazzon]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

yeah sure

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA hah hah ...mhhh... haha

[gbayemporiumeBay]

you're right. you're a COUNTRY full of morons, not just a county. Oh, irony.

[smcm5]

My God that looks ugly. How ridiculous.

[jaxbird]

And it's morons like you who give intelligent Americans a bad name.

[Malprave]

LOL...how sad is that?

[iceflame12]

It's funny because it's true.

[PuttingOnTheFoil]

It might be funny... if all the people weren't hitting the posts intentionally for the benefit of the camera. One of the last guys, hitting one of the padded posts, even turns his shoulder towards it before impact.

[baliko2007]

if stupidity would hurt, these dumb brits would be screaming in agony...

[allth3s4me]

i hate that tv accent

[radharc24]

stupid bitch, hate that tv voice.hey,fuck the microwave dangers, turn all of the uk into a ballpark.

[k1etas]

Stupid...

[buunari123]

Should we take this a next level and start to build only circle and padded rooms! Then people can text safety in the street and home!

[petitemimi33]

thats weird jsut let them smash into it hehe will be much funny

[Javindo]

lol what happens when the chavs knife them open

[jeremy91511]

who is that newscaster talking? she has a nice voice..

[cornolio1]

way to stupid

[lordsomber]

idiocracy.

[imjackcrute]

lol kool

[bovious]

Obviously a joke/hoax. Nicely done, though. Perfectly captures the earnestness of the "something must be done" crowd.

[PapaMax]

Yes except the nanny state (OK Council) wanted to take the bumpers down. This is very funny but on a more serious note it's not just texters, the blind suffer terribly with street furniture and really the councils should make more of an effort. It's not really down to a 118 service to make the streets safer so all credit to them for raising the issue.

[carrozo]

what a crock of shit. anyone who can't navigate a street while texting probably can't walk or text either. why don't we start putting pillows on the fronts of black cabs and buses, too, so before we're hurled 80 meters on account of us not paying enough attention we can at least feel the warm thud of an overbearing nanny state in cahoots with any private organisation out to suck the population dry with the oh-so-important rubber stamp of a study and an ITN new report

[skipweasel]

This isn't about safety, it's about advertising. Before long all the soft jackets will have sponsors and the council will be raking it in without having to get planning permission for billboards or posters.

Our streets will look uglier and more cluttered than ever.

[silverkash]

yes you are correct. 118 will be making money if it gets to cushion evry lampost in the country. next thing we will have padded pavements

[rallymadkassam]

lol

[Charles2337]

How bout texting and driving. :D

[crestind]

Stupid idea. They won't learn their lesson if it doesn't hurt...

[itcher1966]

Typical stupid cockneys

[mebemg]

Oh Great Britian, what the hell has happened to ya'

[tuner151]

lol how do you mean those people are acting..

[Baroqlvr]

good thing that guy didn't bounce back in front of that car

[jErikoATo]

it might be a remotely good idea until the vandals get to it (think: ripping, graffiti, throwing other ppl into poles, etc.)

[thelengendofpiwi]

chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafaaaaaaaaaa­aa

[RikMcCloud]

I wish this was an April Fool's joke... I really do

[Shintaka9009]

Good idea, actually. Sorta silly, but still...