Phone at a symphony concert? I'd ask if these people were born in a barn, but that would disrespect the animals.

Radar antennas were distributed in large quantities throughout the base, half of them in white radomes that looked as if some gigantic bird had laid a clutch of eggs at random. Translated from 超新星纪元 by Cixin Liu, 2004.

There was as yet no question of his [Albrecht von Wallenstein's] abandoning the Emperor [Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor], but he obviously meant to leave both Saxony and Bavaria out in the cold.

In one incident, a large, vicious dog was coming at an officer and he was able to Taser the dog rather than shoot it, Llewellyn said.