Probably because Winston is such an awesomely amusing name for a dog.
No, Winston is only for bulldogs.
Man, that sounds like something I would do. Still hilarious!
Mom: Where’s Alexa?
Dad: Dunno, she texted she’s walking down Aaauuuggghhh…
Mom: What?
Dad: She’s walking down Aaauuuggghhh…
Mom: That doesn’t make sense.
Dad: Something must have happened while she was texting.
Mom: Oh come on!
Dad: Well, that’s what it says.
Mom: Look, if something happened, she wouldn’t have bothered to text ‘Aaaauuuggghhhh’. She’d just say it.
Dad: Maybe she was dictating it.
Mom: Oh shut up!
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He was a German Shepherd.
So… “Vinstön”, maybe.
I hereby nominate the OP for the coveted Really Not All That Bright’s Favorite Thread Titles Award.
This is the same stupidity that gets pedestrians run over by cars. It also causes wrecks when drivers decide to text message instead of, you know, drive the damn car!!
This is the best part
Is there some statute protecting people from the gross factor?
You’ve heard of attractive nuisance? Well this is unattractive nuisance, familiarly referred to as “gross factor.”
The gross factor is a mathematical term for any number divisible by 144.
I have seen blind people text before, but always while sitting or standing. All it takes is a phone with a full alphabet selection (ideally the full keypad, but if you do the old fashioned “hit 2 once for A, twice for B, three times for C” that works too) that can vocalize received texts. (The rest of the keystrokes are memorized.)
Here’s a TV report on this incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hk-ru57A-c
Oh, the humanity! How much more dramatic could the reporters have been? Slow news day, or what?
Ya know, if my teenage son was walking along with his head up his ass, not paying attention to the world around him, and he fell down a manhole, once I ascertained that he was okay I’d be laughing my fool ass off. I would then make sure I bring it up at every family gathering we both attended for the rest of my life.
Does that make me a bad mother?
No, but I thought the last word in your post was going to be “father”. 
Totally off-topic, but people I talk to on the phone call me “sir” all the time. And I’ve heard recordings of my calls, I have the voice of a 12 year old girl. I guess I have masculine syntax or something.
The workers were negligent.
That doesn’t make this any less hilarious, though.