Running with an iPod? Read the article below and then think again about your safety.
I reckon the safest way to run while listening to your iPod, would be to have only earphone in, leaving your other ear 'open' to hear possible dangers like vicious dogs, cars, motorbikes etc... not only crash landing planes!
17 March 2010
A single-engine plane making an emergency landing struck and killed a runner wearing headphones yesterday.
Robert Gary Jones from Georgia in the USA was jogging along the beach whilst on a business trip in South Carolina, listening to his iPod, when he was hit by a single-engine plane making an emergency landing.
Granted, the plane had lost it's propellor and was "gliding" to landing, but this tragic story shows the perils of listening to an iPod when running. Jones would have most certainly heard something had he not been listening to music when the incident occurred.
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