Texting teenager plunges to his death
9th February 2011
An Australian teenager has died after he fell from a multi-storey car park while typing a text message.
19-year-old Ryan Robbins escorted a couple of women to their car late last Friday, in Melbourne. After they parted ways, Ryan began texting a friend, while walking.
He did not notice the railing – about waist-high – and tripped over, plunging to his death. Ryan had been drinking but was not drunk, according to his grandmother Patricia Schroeter.
Think of it as evolution in action. And, of course
In an interview with the radio station 3AW, she blamed inadequate safety measures at the car park for Ryan’s death and called for taller barriers to be mandatory.
“I don’t want anyone else to lose their children or… to go like this, not if it can be prevented,” she said.
Teaching the kid to be NOT QUITE SO CLUELESS is apparently off the table.