The dangers of texting just don’t sink into people’s noggins, despite all the warnings.
Late last month an Anchorage newspaper published a story about a woman who fell about 60 feet down the side of a cliff. She was a distracted walker: She was texting when she fell, according to the article in the Anchorage Daily News.
http://www.adn.com/2012/09/26/2641426/texting-woman-rescued-after-fall.html
The foolish woman was Maria Pestrikoff, who lives near the beach in Kodiak, Alaska. On Sept. 17 she walked toward the edge of a nearby cliff to toss a cigarette butt over its edge. She was texting at that time and slipped on wet grass and plunged down the cliff onto rocks, the Daily News reported.
With much difficulty, the local fire department used a ladder to go down the side of the cliff to rescue Pestrikoff, who sustained a number of injuries. The responders apparently got to her in the nick of time, because the incoming tide was only about 10 feet away from her and she was at risk of drowning, according to the newspaper.
Rescuers got the woman onto a stretcher and lifted her up to safety, the Daily News reported. She was initially taken to a hospital in Kodiak, but was subsequently airlifted to an Anchorage hospital.
In addition to not texting, Pestrikoff shouldn’t have been littering a beautiful beach with a cigarette butt.