newspaper?

As I reluctantly walked to the station this morning I passed a man reading a newspaper at the same time as he was walking up the road. It was only a tabloid size newspaper and not a broadsheet at least but still... I have seen people reading books while walking before and it has always seemed a bit silly to me as both require your eyes to be focused on the task in hand. Combining book reading and walking looks positively normal compared with the reading a newspaper and walking though. This man had the newspaper opened out in front of him as he walked and must have meant he had little view of where he was going. What news could be so important that he couldn't wait to read the newspaper?... But if it was that important he could have just stopped and read it. Perhaps he had somewhere very important to be and had some very important news to read? In which case it was probably the right thing to do. But it was the Metro he was reading, (a crappy free paper handed out in the mornings to the commuting cattle.) so I doubt the news could have been that earth shattering. I suspect he was just a bit odd.