What would you do to get famous? Abuse (Dolly Bindra), be abused (all Roadies contestants), release a poorly shot sex tape (Kim Kardarshian), get drunk all the time and get beaten up by muscular Guidos (Snooki aka Nicole Poilzzi) or just beat up your replacement parents as they won’t let you drink beer in the house (participants of Big Switch on UTV Bindass)?
We’d say none, rather just text absent-mindedly, fall in the mall fountain, get up and start texting again, only to find the video become an instant viral hit all over the world.
Fountain Lady, as she is now famous, Cathy Cruz Marrero, did all of that and is now filing a legal suit against mall authorities for not helping her, instead laughing uncontrollably and posting the hilarious video all over the internet.
Getting more 1.7 million hits on youtube, she even appeared on the famous US show Good Morning America, recently, urging people to “not text and walk at the same time. Thankless isn’t it? But for those who haven’t attained worldwide fame, we spoke to some texting blooper doers, who let us know that she is not alone.
Ashish Mittal, an MBA student tells us about his friend’s wide-eyed moment, when window-shopping on a street in Switzerland, he learnt his lesson in safe texting. “They were these beautiful window displays and my friend took out his phone to text about it, being drawn to it at the same time. He hit his head so hard against the window, we thought either his head or the window would crack open,” he laughs.
While it can be hazardous otherwise, club it with driving and you have a disaster dressed up to go out.
Like Sarthak Harbola, a student from Delhi University tells us, “I was a pillion behind a friend, waiting on a traffic signal and we saw this lady with huge glasses glued to her phone in a car. As she was texting, the car kept on moving forward in a slow-motion animated fashion, like a split-second away from a crash. Thankfully she realised it in the nick of time.”