Cell phone stories: mine and theirs:

Mine:

One-handed Waste Management garbage collectors in Oakland, California balance "doing their job" with simultaneous cell-phone yakking with the other hand. One-handed garbage collectors15 April 2004

Theirs:

Please check out more stories and news at the Miss Cell Phone Manners web site.

Several great stories about cell phone users' stupidity from the News - Tales from the Cell Wars subpage of the Miss Cell Phone Manners web site:

The Soccer Player and The Lamb

Lulica Traznea, a Romanian soccer player, was playing in a national game when he astonished the referee and his fellow players by answering his mobile phone. He stopped the game completely while he spent five minutes trying to sell a lamb from his farm to the inquiring buyer. Eventually, the referee kicked him out of the game. Said Traznea, "If they paid us enough in the first place, we would not have to get involved in other things."

That's Not What I Meant When I Said Open Wide

Dr. Leroy McCloud, St. Petersburg, Florida, dentist, was surprised when a patient's cell phone rang, and downright floored when the patient answered it. After motioning for the doc to wait, the patient chatted on his cell phone for 15 minutes while sitting in the dental chair. Finally, and not a moment too soon, we think, Dr. McCloud kicked the patient out of his office.

Sometimes You Get What You Deserve

Guillermo Orozco, a 25-year-old Mexican man, managed to escape with only minor injuries to his chest, back, and face after a lion attacked him as he tried to retrieve a cell phone from a lion's cage. The lion, Zeus, had been peacefully sleeping and otherwise minding his own business, when a somewhat tipsy Orozco dropped his phone in the cage. He made a bet with a friend that he could recover the phone, but when he climbed in, it inconveniently rang, waking Zeus, who protected himself.

Bet He Didn't Get a Tip

Model Laetitia Casta was fielding a series of calls on her cell phone while in a Paris taxi. The cab driver found the endless ringing, on top of the crazy Paris traffic, to be way too much. He finally gave her a dose of tear gas.

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