Downright dangerous.
From my archives March 2013
I remember taking these photos as my sister and I walked down Fifth Avenue. Photographed with a Canon 5D. I shot 188 images in about 45 minutes, Here are a few. Too many I know but it was hard to choose.
Pedestrians on cell phones can get distracted and crossing the street while staring at your screen is risky. These pedestrians were easy to photograph cause they weren’t paying attention to me. Well, maybe one or two noticed.
You could write a phone conversation dialogue for the images.
Three different women on a cell.
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We are really connected to our phones. Dangerous when walking or driving!! Yikes!
Thanks Toni
I have seen pedestrians on cell phone walk into walls, a poll and a car. I’m sure ERs everywhere are seeing injuries related to cell phone use. Amazing number of photos!
I haven’t witnessed the injuries but the ones in the crosswalks seem especially dangerous. Thanks Kristin.
Haha, that’s when you know you should start putting your phone away when needing to focus on other things.
If there was no such thing as a cell phone, what would people do?
What we did about a decade or so ago
Its terrible around CMU – I just say “look up” so they don’t walk into me.
The people actually on the road must be crazy!
Oh my gosh! I don’t even know what to say!!! 🙂
I can’t tell you how many time I see people texting at stop lights when driving not realizing it’s turned green until others honk at then to prople texting when crossing a busy parking lol. It’s awful
I agree.
Whenever I come across someone walking, looking down at their cell, definitely oblivious to me (and the world around them), I kind of want to just slap the phone out of their hand. So far I have restrained myself from doing so….
People watching certainly offers some interesting photo ops.
It is amazing that more people don’t run into each other as they walk down the street with their eyes glued to their phone!