Yet another "slight health setback." I suspect the reason nobody helped this guy is because he's kind of a jerk. "I feel like Lady Gaga or something." What a riot. I guess for a moment he felt like a wildly successful pop culture icon instead of a dweeb in a cardigan trying to look like Mr. Rogers. It's good to know that we'll be able to count on the "leaders of tomorrow," today's students at USC, to accurately report this kind of thing to thousands of uninterested jerks who have nothing better to do than stare at these stupid phones all day. It would be great if all these students were tagged somehow, like birds bordering on extinction, so if you saw them collapse you could tweet about it and then walk over and boot them in the head for good measure as they marched on to their great reward and certain death.
Last night in front of an audience of hundreds at a presentation at the University of Southern California, TV personality Bill Nye — popularly known as the "Science Guy" — collapsed midsentence as he walked toward a podium. Early indications are that Nye is OK, but what's odd about the incident isn't so much Nye's slight health setback as the crowd's reaction. Or, more precisely, its nonreaction, according to several accounts.
It appears that the students in attendance, rather than getting up from their seats to rush to Nye's aid, instead pulled out their mobile devices to post information about Nye's loss of consciousness.
A cursory search on Twitter revealed a virtual play-by-play account of the incident. One student wrote, "Bill Nye tripped on his computer cord while speaking at USC, was out for abt 5 secs, got back up, spoke w/ slurred speech and fainted."
According to the school's student news outlet, the Daily Trojan, Nye asked, "What happened? How long was I out?" when he regained consciousness. Briskly picking up his humorous persona, he added, "Wow, that was crazy. I feel like Lady Gaga or something." Nye's publicity team didn't immediately respond to The Lookout's request for comment on the episode.
[Yahoo! News]
Perhaps the students were trying to Tweet him back to consciousness? Or maybe their iPhones can shoot special life saving rays that they were beaming at him?
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