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Man's hierarchy of needs has changed:
A man attending a performance of the Broadway play Hand to God decided that he needed a little more juice on his iPhone—just before the play started. So, because any outlet is fair game when your battery icon is flashing red, he climbed up onto the stage and plugged his phone into a prop wall with a prop outlet and walked away. Of course, the outlet—like the wall—was fake.
According to the New York Post, the crew had to stop the pre-show music and make an announcement to the audience that that sort of thing isn't allowed. One audience member copped to "loudly heckling the idiot" when the ushers removed the phone and asked him to take it back.
After Hurricane Sandy legions of iPhone and other smart phone owners camped out in the Long Island malls, recharging at outlets normally used for floor waxers. What's the most desperate scene of Dying Battery Panic Syndrome you've witnessed?
Original Submission
(Score: 4, Informative) by Tork on Saturday July 11 2015, @09:10AM
As an occasional air traveller I might have found an entertaining story or two, but putting a gifted moron at a theater on the same level as people enduring the aftermath of a hurricane to keep in touch with loved ones really sucked the fun out of it. Sorry.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2015, @11:28AM
Same thought here. Many people have ditched their landlines so they don't just need a smartphone for social media.
I remember hearing stories about old people that were stuck in non-ground level apartments with no phone, no light, and no safe way to get outside.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday July 12 2015, @02:09AM
Hmm, in Long Island the landlines all still worked. So people could tell their friends and family they were OK. It was the social media connection and content consumption via their smartphones that people were desperate to maintain. All of which is meant to say that man's hierarchy of needs has demonstrably changed. That is, people are willing to sit on the floor plugged into floor waxer outlets for hours to get their information fix, or to jump onto a Broadway stage to recharge because the Tamagotchi, er, phone, has said it is about to die. People can't bear to be out of touch anymore.
Washington DC delenda est.