A man is walking near a 60-foot cliff, distracted by his Twitter feed of Justin Bieber's pale tush. The man then walks in the cliff's direction, still analyzing Bieber's digitized preineum. Seconds later, he walks straight off the cliff and into the Grim Reaper's waiting arms.
HaHaHaHaHaHaHahHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Too soon?
Authorities have identified a 33-year-old man who was distracted by an electronic device when he fell 60 feet to his death at San Diego's Sunset Cliffs on Christmas Day, according to San Diego Lifeguards.
The incident happened at 4:50 p.m. Friday on the 900 block of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. The man — identified as Joshua M. Burwell, of Sheridan, Indiana — tumbled off the side of a cliff, authorities said.
"Witnesses stated seeing someone distracted by an electronic device and he just fell over the edge," said San Diego Lifeguard Bill Bender. "(He) wasn't watching where he was walking, he was looking down at the device in his hands."Folks, there's two types of people in this world: individuals who love technology, but will ditch the Droids and iPhones occasionally to engage in some Final Fantasy novella; and individuals who transform their entire existence into a Facetime/Vlog/Periscope orgy. We're not sure Joshua was into Square Enix fare, nor do we know if he was a serial Facetimer.
But he's in the latter category regardless. Why? Because all it took was a smartphone to make him do a very dumb thing.
And now, he's a very dead man.
What's the lesson here? Don't spend hours looking at the barely legal backsides of Canadian heartthrobs while near cliffs?
Yeah-let's go with that.
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