British MPs warned against using BlackBerries in the House of Commons

There is no way something like this'll happen over here given how crazy addicted members of Congress are to taking hits off the CrackBerry pipe, but British House of Commons speaker Michael Martin has ruled that MPs can be thrown out of the Commons if they're caught using one of RIM's handhelds. This comes just a few days after Tony Blair's former communications chief Alastair Campbell "accidentally" sent an expletive-laden message to a journalist using his BlackBerry, which brought loads of attention to the device on the other side of the pond.