Proof That Texting is Dangerous: Woman Falls Into Icy Canal in Epic Text Fail

We’ve all had moment when we’ve been so engrossed in a text that we’ve done something stupid. Thankfully though, we’ve never actually ended up in a canal. Unlike this poor lady.

The Sun reports that Laura Safe, a newsreader for Capital FM’s Breakfast Show in Birmingham, failed to live up to her unusual surname when she walked straight into this freezing cold canal.

Laura, who admits that she was busy texting her boyfriend, was saved by businessman Neil Edginton, who yelled at her to stop but unfortunately it was too late.

Laura posted the following tweet on her Twitter page, following her icy incident:

“I thought ice on the canal was pavement because it looked dark in the corner of my eye,” she later explained.

“I heard a man call out ‘stop’ to me and I looked up at him, but it was too late by that point. I tried to get my balance and ended up slipping into the canal. But not before I’d saved my handbag and mobile phone. This man came running up Baywatch style, grabed my hand and pulled me up. He was a hero and saved my life,” she added.

“I realised her focus was on her mobile phone and that she was going to walk straight into the water. I shouted to her to stop but it was too late. I dropped my phone and ran over to her,” said hero Neill.

“I had to lay down on the side with my arms in the water because she was submerged and pulled her out,” he added.

Laura, who was left severely red-faced by the entire thing, said that she learned her lesson and that she doesn’t text while she’s out and about now because she’s “too scared.”

We had a feeling if something like this happened to us, we’d probably be pretty wary about sending an auld SMS as well.