Daily Archives: January 24, 2012 - 2 results

Three recent news accounts involving arrests of gun-toting visitors to New York City serve as cautionary advice to anyone thinking they might need to pack heat when visiting Gotham—even when it’s legal heat. A former Marine from Indiana and a medical student from Tennessee were arrested by New York Police when they tried to check their handguns at the Empire State Building and 9/11 Memorial, respectively, while Tea Party co-founder Mark Meckler met a similar fate trying to check his …

Your parents probably taught you to look both ways before crossing the street. But the growing proliferation of cell phones and other handheld electronic devices means that more and more people are looking in neither direction when they step out in traffic, and wearing headphones only increases the sensory deprivation. Distracted walkers have an annoying habit of getting in the way of traffic or other pedestrians, but worse, a new study finds, sometimes they end up in the hospital—or dead. …