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A 67-year-old woman was busy with her phone as she walked down a Plainfield, N.J. street, and she walked into a thigh-high barrier and fell, head down and feet in the air, into the basement of Acme Windows. The store had opened the basement door in the sidewalk, and security cameras captured the whole thing. “I thought texting and driving was a bad thing,” said eyewitness Martin Delgadillo. “Now it’s texting and walking.” The unnamed woman was hospitalized in “stable” condition. (AC/WNBC New York, AP) ...And if doctors aren’t distracted while treating her, maybe she can recover.Original Publication Date: 11 June 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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