New York's Christopher Street subway station sees the latest fatality to result from someone chasing a dropped cell phone on rail tracks. July 16, 2013 9:50 AM PDT The Christopher Street station. (Credit: Bebo2Good1/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) It's easy enough to say: "It's only a cell phone." Yet people seem so attached to their devices that they will sometimes risk their lives. In an incident Monday afternoon at New York's Christopher Street subway station, a man dropped his cell phone onto the tracks and decided to retrieve it. More Technically Incorrect 61 percent of Americans say they'll work during vacations Google Glass enters a casino: Watch what happens (or doesn't) MLB boss: I've never sent an e-mail, but I just got an iPhone Google doodle hails the world's first Facebooker: Rembrandt Restaurant fires workers by text As the Daily Mail reports, the man -- who has yet to be named -- jumped down. He reportedly came into contact with the third rail and was electrocuted. His death comes within weeks of another incident in the Bronx when a man also died after jumping onto the tracks to get a dropped cell phone. He was struck by a train. Yes, there are those who manage to risk their lives by stepping onto the tracks and still survive -- such as one lady in Brazil, who was rescued with the help of a security guard. But it really is just a cell phone. It's not worth the risk.
New York's Christopher Street subway station sees the latest fatality to result from someone chasing a dropped cell phone on rail tracks.
The Christopher Street station.
(Credit: Bebo2Good1/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
It's easy enough to say: "It's only a cell phone."
Yet people seem so attached to their devices that they will sometimes risk their lives.
In an incident Monday afternoon at New York's Christopher Street subway station, a man dropped his cell phone onto the tracks and decided to retrieve it.
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As the Daily Mail reports, the man -- who has yet to be named -- jumped down.
He reportedly came into contact with the third rail and was electrocuted.
His death comes within weeks of another incident in the Bronx when a man also died after jumping onto the tracks to get a dropped cell phone. He was struck by a train.
Yes, there are those who manage to risk their lives by stepping onto the tracks and still survive -- such as one lady in Brazil, who was rescued with the help of a security guard.
But it really is just a cell phone. It's not worth the risk.
