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Texting and walking - BAD!
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Texting and walking is a slippery combination.
A British radio journalist stumbled upon that lesson the hard way when she accidently wandered straight into an icy-cold canal while messaging her boyfriend recently.
"I thought ice on the canal was pavement because it looked dark in the corner of my eye," Laura Safe, a newsreader for Birmingham's Capital FM Breakfast Show, said once she was back on safe ground.
"I heard a man called out 'stop' to me and I looked up at him, but it was too late by that point."
Her embarrassing blunder, caught on CCTV, landed her in the freezing waters near a local shopping center known as the Mailbox.
But she wasn't stuck there for long - thanks to the concerned bystander, businessman Neil Edginton, who rushed to help her out.
"This man came running up Baywatch style, grabbed my hand and pulled me up," Safe said. "He was a hero and saved my life."
Edginton, however, wasn't the only person who caught a glimpse of the unintended plunge.
"I brushed myself off and hoped that no one saw," Safe said. "But I turned around and the whole of Pizza Express at the Mailbox were there and the staff came running out."
"I told them I was fine, but they dragged me in, put me in the disabled toilet and gave me a cup of tea and a towel."
Safe, who has since put down the phone, later took to Twitter to comment on the incident, unbecoming of her family name.
"Oh dear. I should really be called Laura UNsafe after the day I've had! Lol."
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Texting and walking is a slippery combination.
A British radio journalist stumbled upon that lesson the hard way when she accidently wandered straight into an icy-cold canal while messaging her boyfriend recently.
"I thought ice on the canal was pavement because it looked dark in the corner of my eye," Laura Safe, a newsreader for Birmingham's Capital FM Breakfast Show, said once she was back on safe ground.
"I heard a man called out 'stop' to me and I looked up at him, but it was too late by that point."
Her embarrassing blunder, caught on CCTV, landed her in the freezing waters near a local shopping center known as the Mailbox.
But she wasn't stuck there for long - thanks to the concerned bystander, businessman Neil Edginton, who rushed to help her out.
"This man came running up Baywatch style, grabbed my hand and pulled me up," Safe said. "He was a hero and saved my life."
Edginton, however, wasn't the only person who caught a glimpse of the unintended plunge.
"I brushed myself off and hoped that no one saw," Safe said. "But I turned around and the whole of Pizza Express at the Mailbox were there and the staff came running out."
"I told them I was fine, but they dragged me in, put me in the disabled toilet and gave me a cup of tea and a towel."
Safe, who has since put down the phone, later took to Twitter to comment on the incident, unbecoming of her family name.
"Oh dear. I should really be called Laura UNsafe after the day I've had! Lol."
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