Posts tagged with ‘texting’

911 text messaging coming to the US in 2014

Right now, if you’ve got an emergency, you’ve got to call 911, but come 2014, you’ll be able to text your emergencies into the local police, fire and ambulance if that would work better for you. If you’re mute, or in a hostage situation, if you’re hog tied in the back of someone’s trunk… all good examples of lives that would be saved if you could text rather than call.

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Aspiring rapper tweets about drifting at 120mph while drunk YOLO, DIAF moments later. Yes, you only live once indeed.

Ervin McKinness, a 21-year-old aspiring rapper, tweeted about driving drunk at 120 mph minutes before dying in a fiery one-car crash that killed the rapper and four others.

McKinness posted the now-ominous tweets about speeding while driving drunk on the account @ink2flashyy at 1:19 a.m. on Sept. 2.

“Drunk af going 120 drifting corners #FuckIt YOLO”

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Man texts, “I need to quit texting,” before driving off cliff

Texting and driving can be pretty dangerous, but if you’re going to text while driving, don’t do it while driving at the edge of the cliff, and if your last text before going over is “I need to quit texting”, maybe you should have quit texting a few miles back.

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Sometimes a one night stand just isn’t worth the crazy

After just one night, this guy got a string of batshit crazy texts from this girl because he didn’t want to hang out the next night. Like seriously, someone-needs-some-anti-crazy-pills-right-now kind of crazy.

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Pakistan telecom drafts list of 1500 “rude words” to ban from text messaging

Pakistan isn’t exactly known as being a bastion of free speech, and a telecom company in Pakistan has proposed legislation that would ban 1500 words from text messages it considers “rude”, including all sorts of words for butt, fart, masturbation, sex and more.

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