The Bolton News - MAN who stabbed his friend to death in a row over a mis-spelt text message has been convicted of manslaughter...Brook told the police he sent Mr Witkowski a text containing the word “nutter”, but, because of his predictive text, it came out as “mutter”. Mr Witkowski took offence and after the pair exchanged a series of increasingly abusive and angry text messages, he went round to Brook’s flat. He opened the door to let his friend in but said Mr Witkowski flew at him with a knife of his own. Brook continued to attack Mr Witkowski and delivered the killing blow, stabbing him in the chest and piercing his heart.
Most dangerous modern technology facing our society? Predictive texting. This nuisance of the modern cell phone is presumably ruining peoples lives from all walks of life (no, I'm not going to research factual evidence for that sentence or any of the following). Wives are divorcing husbands due to misspelled messages, bosses are firing employees, and now best friends are off-ing each other in epic knife fights.
Is this really what you had in mind big cell-co? Re-writing people's lives to the point of ruin. Last I checked this was America, not communist Egypt. We don't need big corporation conglomerates telling us what we mean to say or feel. We're human beings with real thoughts and emotions and we deserve to be treated that way. When I try and type "Heading home to help," I'm not looking for you to correct to "Heading to Hedonism" (true story). Shit is not cool.
I demand all cell phone users demonstrate outside their local Verizon or AT&T until this deadly problem is resolved. Your very life may depend on it.
I demand all cell phone users demonstrate outside their local Verizon or AT&T until this deadly problem is resolved. Your very life may depend on it.
