Saw this on Yahoo! News: apparently people in London are becoming so distracted from texting that they lose track of their surroundings and bonk into things. No surprise there.

The news of this situation comes from the city itself, which has turned a sympathetic ear on the plight of these bruised and befuddled masses and installed padding on lamp posts. Watching people run into lamp posts, padded or not, is still hilarious.

Now, if I were the Eternal Student, I might take this opportunity to reflect at length at how this is a sign of the times and we need to get in touch with real people and stop being so distracted. Perhaps I might even use this as a means to segue into a quote from Emily Post on the proper etiquette of saving face after falling down in public in an especially humorous manner.

But I’m not feeling particularly motivated or smart enough for that, so here’s some visual documentation of the plight of our hapless friends across the pond instead: