Man unknowingly falls into a canal while walking and operating his phone

A man walked straight into a canal while operating his phone.

Security cameras outside a pub in Nottingham, England, show the man engrossed in his phone while walking down the path. There was a canal covered in leaves in front of him and he walked straight into it.

People who were near The Navigation Inn at the time of his fall helped pull him out of the canal.

Annmarie Gardener, the landlady of the pub, warned people about using phones near water. 

She said:

It is not usually a problem – most people know it is a canal. When you watch it he thought because the leaves were on it the canal disappeared and became a path.

He was on his phone. We do put warnings out in the pub and tell people to be careful. I think we have had one other person who slipped on the edge but he came back out.