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Published Date: 18 April 2008
AUSTRIA'S second-largest city of Graz has ordered public transport commuters to keep their mobile phones on silent mode.
"I know I insulted the mobile phone goddess," Mayor Siegfried Nagl said. "People need to know they have no right to be on the phone constantly."

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  • Last Updated: 17 April 2008 10:16 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Guga II,

Rockall 18/04/2008 03:49:01
Surely he means that people have no NEED to be on the phone constantly? Or is this another little Austrian trying to tell people what they can and can't do?
2

GalacticCannibal,

Murrieta; . CA.....a place in the Sun 18/04/2008 05:27:29
"People need to know they have no right to be on the phone constantly."

Hey U Mayor Siegfried Nagl dude.

Tell that to the Californian's, and u better enlarge ur anus while we shove a long board up it.

HO HO HO Happy Xmas in those Alps dude.

GC

3

mike - across the pond,

ah well 18/04/2008 15:03:57
its good to see that "manners" are alive and well in the heart of the EU as well....

cell phones provide a double edged sword...

20 years ago, if you were lost or something, you could speak a question and hope someone would answer...

it was called "being friendly"...

today you hear a question you have to look to make sure the person isnt blabbing on their "blue-tooth"... "making eye contact" isnt even enough as too often the "blue toothers" are staring off vacantly into the space you may be occupying...
4

truthsleuth,

19/04/2008 01:09:54
Bloody fed up of mobile phone idiots who are afraid no one will speak to them - the poor demented souls.

 

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