“Don’t walk with your phone! …Oh, your phone is…Walking anyway…Um…Carry on.”
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Freakish Twitter video shows phone walking on its own, no human attached
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Katy Kelly
Dec 13, 2018 - Tweet
- Japan
- (6-Second Shop • arukisumaho • cell phones • cool • creepy • robotics • safety • smart phone)
Fake yakuza arrested in Tokyo after threatening man who was walking while staring at a smartphone
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Richard Simmonds
Aug 30, 2017
- Japan
- (arukisumaho • COK • crime • Smartphones • Tokyo • violence • yakuza)
Spate of violence targets people walking while looking at their phones in Japanese train stations
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Richard Simmonds
Jul 31, 2017
Japanese train stations get the self-proclaimed “vigilante” heroes they neither need, nor want.
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