Hypnosis by LCD Becoming Increasingly Rampant

• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2011-02-05 15:13

  Matt Ryan
  Infowars.com
  January 5, 2011
  
  Recently, several videos of people falling as the result of staring in to the glow of their electronic mobile devices have become the focus of media attention. This trend is becoming more and more prevalent as texting while walking is a major safety concern in cities such as New York and Los Angeles. In a very Lemmings fashion, people are blindly walking off ledges, in to streets, and even in to fountains because they just can’t take their eyes off of the little screen in front of them.
  
  In this first video you see a 10-year-old boy playing a video game while going either to or from school in the subway. Needless to say, while his attention was drawn to his video game, he continued to walk forward until he landed on the subway tracks below. Thankfully, a bystander was quick to jump down and rescue the boy before a train arrived.
  
  [video=youtube;ukEFBly4UKE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukEFBly4UKE&feature=player_embedded[/video]
  
  In another incident, highly publicized by the media, a woman was walking through the mall texting when she fell in to the fountain. The video below was taken by mall staff watching the CCTV cameras and having a chuckle at her expense. She has since threatened to file a lawsuit against the mall for failing to respond and allowing a mocking video to be leaked to YouTube by their employees.
  
  [video=youtube;mg11glsBW4Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg11glsBW4Y&feature=player_embedded[/video]
  
  It’s clear that a hazard is present here that wasn’t in generation’s past. Many people have become so infatuated with the content displayed on tiny LCD screens that they unconsciously throw their sense of well-being out the window in favor of finding out the latest gossip or achieving a high score.
  
  Pedestrian texting isn’t the only major concern. A report out of the National Traffic and Safety Administration revealed that around 28 percent of all crashes in 2008 were caused by drivers in the age group of 18 and 29, who admitted to texting while driving. In that year alone, there were over 500 thousand accidents in the U.S. that resulted in bodily injury, and over 5,100 that resulted in death.
  
  These examples really beg the question, are we as a society being hypnotized by our electronics?

  
  
  Link to article: http://www.infowars.com/hypnosis-by-lcd-becoming-increasingly-rampant/
• TA wrote on 2011-02-05 15:17
  Some people are just stupid, and....... that girl deserves to be laughed at lol...
  
  It's not hypnosis, people just pay too much attention to their stupid phones instead of what's going on around them. They deserve what happens to them, damn idiots.
• Rebel wrote on 2011-02-05 16:59
  great.
  I visualize a comparison of a chicken staring up into the rain with it's mouth open.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-02-05 19:17
  Its just distraction.
  You're so engrossed in what you're doing that you're not paying attention to your surroundings. Nowhere near textbook hypnosis.
  
  I was really hoping it was hypnosis and someone found a way to make it effective using LCDs. Hypnotism is one of my kinks ;D
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2011-02-05 21:06

  Quote from Cucurbita;321641:

  
  I was really hoping it was hypnosis and someone found a way to make it effective using LCDs. Hypnotism is one of my kinks ;D

  
  
  Yeah I was pretty disappointed too...
• Taycat wrote on 2011-02-06 11:58
  I walk and text and yet I can walk around objects because I can pay attention.
  
  It's really due to how people don't pay attention really.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-02-06 23:23
  Yeah this isn't hypnosis. This was simply the people not paying attention to their surroundings. That boy was lucky there was no train. Though...the fall did look like it hurt.
• Intex wrote on 2011-02-06 23:26
  I read the title as "Hypnosis by LSD."
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-02-06 23:47

  Quote from Intex;323395:

  I read the title as "Hypnosis by LSD."

  
  
  Oh ok I'm glad I'm not alone. I read it as LSD too then became confused when it mentioned cell phones.
• Mama wrote on 2011-02-07 00:24
  we spend most of our lives going from glowing rectangle to glowing rectangle. what changed?
• paladin wrote on 2011-02-07 02:21
  How is this worthy of news
  This is normal stuff
  And i mean article worthy not news as in here news
• Shanghai wrote on 2011-02-07 02:29
  There's actually some apps that utilize the phone's camera to see where you're going while you're texting. owo That woman should really get that.
• Phunkie wrote on 2011-02-07 02:31
  Yeah, this is called people who aren't careful with their surroundings.
  
  I love how when you always quote from infowars, they make it sound like it's the end of the world.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-02-07 11:02

  Quote from Preciouz;323699:

  Yeah, this is called people who aren't careful with their surroundings.
  
  I love how when you always quote from infowars, they make it sound like it's the end of the world.

  
  
  Huh that explains so much about the posts. Sounds like a cracked out paper.
• Oizen wrote on 2011-02-08 13:14
  I tried to hypnotize some one by holding my Ipod Touch to their face.
  
  It didn't work. I am disappoint.