Monday, May 19, 2008
Dangerous iPods
I sometimes worry that my children will ignore hazards around them because they are plugged in, particularly to their iPods. Still, it never occurred to me that one of those risks was that a helicopter might fall on them. Nor does the risk of falling helicopters seem like a good reason to regulate iPod use, notwithstanding the linked story's suggestion that it might be.
4 Comments:
By 
Escort81, at
Mon May 19, 11:54:00 AM:
Not sure that being without earphones would have helped this guy. Choppers tend to fall like a stone once they are in trouble (I imagine DEC can supply some color here). Wrong place, wrong time.
By randian, at
Mon May 19, 01:15:00 PM:
Falling helicopters don't seem like the sort of threat one should spend much time trying to avoid.
By 
, at
Mon May 19, 02:49:00 PM:
Since it's an issue of not being able to hear all those incoming helo's with a power failure, perhaps we should just ban the hearing challenged from walking around too.....
By , at
Mon May 19, 10:21:00 PM:
He should have ditched his iPod for an iPhone. That way, somebody could have called and warned that a helicopter was falling on his head.
