Let this be a lesson to all tweeter-runners!
Running + Twitter + BlackBerry = a black eye and a cracked skull.
That is the lesson taught by James Coleman of Bristol, England.
According to this story at Gawker, Mr. Coleman was tweeting on his BlackBerry while running to work when he hit his head on a tree branch and cracked his skull.
Ouch!
My analysis:
- Tweeting can be an obsession. (Just look at some Twitter users’ seemingly unending streams of tweets.)
- Using a BlackBerry can be an obsession. (Why else do people call it “CrackBerry”?)
- And we all know that running can be an obsession.
When you put three obsessions together, you can easily get someone who is not paying attention to his or her environment.
What do you do while running? Please leave a comment here. Thanks!
