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Don’t Text & Walk at the Same Time ~ La Crescenta

10:17 AM PDT on April 13, 2012

Got to love live aerial coverage of a bear in a suburban area, and love even more La Crescenta resident Vaz Terdandenyan. The dude is texting and walking when he comes face to face with a bear and immediately takes off running. Excellent fight or flight response time, Vaz, but walking and texting can be dangerous. According to NPR:

He'd gone outside to see why a helicopter was hovering over the area, and "I was texting my boss that I would be late for work because something is going on," he told the station afterward.

"I'm coming down the stairs and I see the bear coming up the stairs toward me," Terdandenyan added. "I turned back and I ran for my life."

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