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    Last One Out of Germany Turn Off the Lights (With A Cellphone)

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    02/23/09

    In reply to Last One Out of Germany Turn Off the Lights (With A Cellphone)
    If they did this in the US, I guarantee it would take about a week before someone filed a lawsuit over how they got mugged in the dark because they didn't have a working cel-phone on hand.
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    Image of trrosen trrosen
    02/22/09

    In reply to Last One Out of Germany Turn Off the Lights (With A Cellphone)
    Cool they found a way to alert every mugger in a two mile radius that there is someone walking there (and they have a cellphone). Great Idea.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    02/23/09

    @trrosen:

    ...or I was thinking they could just mug all the people who stumble around in the dark since there won't be any witnesses.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/22/09

    In reply to Last One Out of Germany Turn Off the Lights (With A Cellphone)
    First of all, manhole accidents are no laughing matter. There was a grisly murder in lower Manhattan in late 2001 where someone was pushed down an open steam hole. He was cooked to death. Manholes need to be heavy and awkward in no small part to prevent people from tampering with them.


    Second, perhaps lights that run on solar is a better idea. NYC has enough slip/falls and trip/falls as is and usually the number goes up in a bad economy. Not that people become clumsier. Just more liable to make claims - sometimes out of accidents that REALLY happened.

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    Image of David Arras David Arras
    02/22/09

    In reply to Last One Out of Germany Turn Off the Lights (With A Cellphone)
    Thats retarded. What about old people who don't have cell phones? IE the group that needs light the most!!! also kids to don't have phones.
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    02/22/09

    @David Arras: You're retarded. What about the Facebookers we don't want to be able to see the manholes? IE the group we want dead the most!!! also myspacers should die, too.
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    Image of Paul Hibbard Paul Hibbard
    02/22/09

    @Con Seannery gives up on subtlety, BAN FACEBOOKERS!: yeah what about us facebokkers?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    02/23/09

    @David Arras: Show me some old people out AFTER dark. Old people are in bed as soon as Pat Sajak goes off, and MAYBE 9pm if Jessica is on Murder She Wrote. They DO get up at 4am, but that's so they can get the first news of the day and watch that Williard Scott feller.
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    02/23/09

    @Paul Hibbard: You can't speel?


    (I know I spelled it wrong)

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    02/23/09

    @David Arras: There are still old folks and kids without mobiles? Even in Germany, with its 123% penetration rate?
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/23/09

    @outeast: That's a lot of penetration. Germans are awesome.
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    Image of acispades acispades
    02/22/09

    In reply to Last One Out of Germany Turn Off the Lights (With A Cellphone)
    this sounds awesome, especially in my home town where whole neighborhoods (gang-infested neighborhoods, mind you) are completely pitch black


    i'd feel a lot safer walking to my friend's house if i could turn on the lights with my celly

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    02/23/09

    @AciSpades:
    So...what your'e saying is that you'd really like to make it completely obvious that you're the guy who has a "free" cel-phone up for grabs, _and_ make it easy to follow you?
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