21st Century Darwinism, part 2

Following on from my previous post about how morons who spend half their time gawping at their cellphones can on occasion remove themselves from the gene pool, I was somewhat cheered to read this article in the Metro this morning.

"Ryan Robbins, 19, plunged seven storeys from a building in Melbourne, Australia, as he sent a text arranging to meet a friend.
Grandmother Patricia Schroeter said: ‘Unfortunately, he was watching his phone instead of where he was walking. The barriers are not high enough’."

So, although you concede that he wasn't looking where he was going, it's still the fault of the barrier. The barrier which nobody else in the history of the car park has managed to fall over. Of course. Clearly we should live in a world where every stupid action we could possibly make should be pre-empted and compensated for. Maybe we should brick up every window above the ground floor of every building, just in case we're too busy texting to notice them there? While we're at it, as I previously observed, many people like to text (or even read the paper for fuck's sake) whilst walking along the street. So to make things safe for them, we should remove all lamp posts, post boxes, street signs and trees so they can do that without risk of injury. Oh, and probably cars, too.

The real tragedy of this is that there will be almost nobody who takes on board the obvious message of this story. But as I said before, if the highest price we pay is that a percentage of the world's unaware morons cease to exist, I can live with that.