# Lets list some stupid behaviors caused by cell phones.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 2, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-stupid-behaviors-caused-by-cell-phones/685134 "2014-04-02T02:20:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-stupid-behaviors-caused-by-cell-phones/685134/81 "2014-04-04T14:21:07Z")

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> [@Mind\_Your\_Head](#):
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> Just yesterday in Dover, Kent a teenage girl tried to climb down a drain [to retrieve her iphone](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-26878349)

I think the problem there was diet not cell phone.

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**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-stupid-behaviors-caused-by-cell-phones/685134/82 "2014-04-04T20:45:18Z")

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One of the more ridiculous claims I’ve seen someone make on the SDMB was a few years back in which someone posed the hypothetical “what would happen if all cell phones suddenly and permanently stopped working”. The actual answer, as even a moment’s thought will give, is that it would be a massive and unparalleled economic and societal catastrophe. But a few stubborn posters insisted that not only would there be minimal disruption, but that it would be a positive thing, and everyone would be all friendly and sociable and so forth.

It was bizarre.

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