Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 17, 2012

if only it really existed, the world would be a better place.

One dummy down, the rest of the dummies to go.

Bad form to let go of your device before you splat, Jack! Where’s your dedication?

Lemming get this straight…

Natural selection at work.

But just tonight I heard of a 23 year old sports star who got hit by a train while riding his bike…..How could that possibly happen, you say? Had ear phones on…Darwin, man…

Saw a girl on her device come within inches of doing this in New Zealand. Narrow trail, 300 foot drop on both sides, and she was oblivious, but stayed in the gene pool. Well, I’m assuming she made it BACK from the lighthouse.

Perfect cure for rudeness.

That strip reminds me of this youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx2L9g0reNo

if only!

Some folk really need a rubber room in which to traipse.

Is there a road for such drivers as well? If there is, I wish they’d take it.

shh. don’t tell anyone. the other day, i saw a local cop texting while driving.

“That’ll cost you $85.”

The planet bites back. People like that aren’t really ON the planet anyway. They are escapees in a perpetual fugue, infected by the corporates who profit from dominating them.May they all learn about reality.

HIKNG LOOKOT PNT →

Survival goes to those with “common” sense.

I was walking into a mall and there were two sets of sliding doors … one left, one right. I watched a guy who was texting walk smack into the pane glass window between the two doors. It was a Darwin moment …

In reality, they would wander off the trail long before they got to the cliff.

I KNEW Facebook & Twitter were good for something…tell your elected officials…get one of these trails in every town!!

Luckily they can text for an ambulance on the way down.

puts me in mind of the human race reading its “holy books” as it nears taking a major dive due to warming. talk about oblivious.

In Michigan, a woman was texting, and walked off a breakwall and straight into Lake Michigan.How did we become the dominant life form?my dog knows not to walk off a pier.

Social Darwinism! Wiley, you’ve invented a new theory of evolution.

Ah yes, a good dose of chlorine in the gene pool.

The ends to the means?

Would that this were true. I call my grandson a screenager.

@ Grog – totally agree.

Yesterday I saw a kid riding his bike and texting at the same time. He almost ran into a parked car, and then ours as we passed.

It doesn’t work. Enough of them survive long enough to reproduce.

Thats what happens when the phones become smarter than the users.

I’m starting to get tired of strips relating to Evolution, it’s not that I don’t believe it happened, (I do), what I don’t like is the constant controversy it causes, soon enough, we should be seeing Goldenroya or exoticdoc2 ranting about how much they hate it, and then the equally fervent members of the opposite side like night-gaunt49 will call them stupid for it nobody wins, like always

Linguist, you seem to have named yourself well…..Screenager….I love it…

There was a similar situation here in Cleveland….a woman was walking while texting, and she was steps away from falling in a construction hole…

You forgot texting while driving, as if phone calls weren’t bad enough.

I still say there’s something to be said for releasing security-cam footage to the media, when a fool-texter trips into a mall-fountain. It’s fun as hell, and teaches the texter a lesson.

HEY! i read and walk with my iPad all the time and have yet to bump into anyone. don’t do it in the car unless at a stop light unlike the jabber jays i see yacking on their cells while going down the road!

It could be a whole new messaging service! “Cliff Notes”.

Sorry, I couldn’t stop myself.

The Lemur brigade!

The fall won’t hurt them; they’re carrying their own landing iPads. And if they’re stranded, they have enough Kindle-ing to start a fire for their hot pockets and dr. pepper dinner you know they’re packing!

Loved the guy who was texting and almost came face to face with a bear wandering the neighborhood. Bet he didn’t know he could run so fast.

I have NEVER seen anyone texting from a pommel horse.

“Think of it as Evolution in Action” (Tony Rand)

Social Darwinism?

Hey, you! Out of the gene pool!!!

The sad part about it is that when they are behind the wheel they take others with them.

Is there an observation platform for the rest of us?

No it works – There was a young man who fell to his death near the Golden Gate National Recreation area. Walking about the clifs, texting on his phone, slipped and fell.All that bueaty – makes me wonder what he was texting about.

This Ludite loves this pannel!

don’t bother me, I’m busy…..

“Think of it as evolution in action”

The line comes from “Oath of Fealty” by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

The reason why Fort Lee, NJ is trying to pass a law for just this sort of thing.

The thought of one of these devices INSIDE a bear, does fit with Wiley’s “observations of life”. As to these morons using devices while “driving”, like drunks, don’t care if they end up with Darwin awards, it’s the people they kill, yet manage to survive themselves, who are the problem.

Gee, out here in the “Wild West” one cop who got into too many accidents—not his fault, exactly—got let go, and another who was caught DUI (driving under the influence) was also fired.

++++

Sadly, a Kansas City teen who killed another driver was texting while driving—and has been charged with manslaughter.

I really wish this would happen.

where do you live —New Jersey?

Yes, They do this on the highway already but take others with them.

Wonder how many twitter followers they have?

I seen a man just yesterday texting and walked right into a telephone pole.

MeanBob, you got me man, if it were morning I would have done a coffee spit take on my keyboard…But tonight it was whiskey………

Here’s an idea, no charge. Teacher tells the students to stop texting, because she wants them to write something…..

Go Lemmings!! … or should that be Go Texting!

sorry, 2000 years older than the cities, sorry about the typo in my previous comment

It wouldn’t be allowed. There are too many laws that keep stupid people from offing themselves in appropriate ways.