Hurricane News Scares 8-Year-Old Fla. Girl Into Trying To Ride Bike To Ohio

WKMG TV NEWS ^ | 8-17-2008

[Cagey]

Hahahaha!

" Evacuate? Hell, I'm gonna ride out this storm!"

[synbad600]

Been there, done that! Trust me: it hurts even if you’re a girl.

[RDTF]

From article (poor thing!):

“The family recently moved to Florida from Columbus, Ohio, and her parents said she hasn’t made any new friends yet, an Associated Press report said.”

[Shelayne]

Bless her little heart. (and I don’t mean it in that in an offhanded way)

Children soak in the environment around them. The poor little sweetie was scared to death, and I would bet the chocolate chip cookie in my death-like grip that she had absorbed this alarmism from the media.

May I eat my cookie now?

[Steelerfan]

I was just going to ask “why ohio” and then I saw your post.

Hope she is feeling better, moving at that age is rough without seeing “we are all going to die” type stories about your new home on the news.

[Abigail Adams]

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/6396/maggie.htm

About halfway down you can listen to her bike-riding theme music and see a pic of her on the bike.

[Cagey]

Just don’t get any crumbs in your keyboard.

I think you’re on to something when you say she absorbed most of that fear from the hype the media adds to their coverage of tragic stories. She probably figured she’d end up in some sports arena with fifty thousand others and probably never get out alive.

Watching the evening news is not healthy for an eight year old. Hell, it ain’t healthy for me!

[AlexW]

Yea, I wonder how many times she had been forced to watch
Al Goreon’s convenient lie.

[Shelayne]

**munch** Exactly. **munch**

[Cagey]

Thanks. Now I’m going to have nightmares tonight and I’ll probably ride my bike as fast as I can to Montana tomorrow.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Hell, Deland is in the high country!

[Turbopilot]

Alternative headline: 8-year-old girl in Florida has more common sense than half of New Orleans.

[PCBMan]

She probably shouldn’t listen to Jim Cantore so much...

[NonValueAdded]

Being in Deland is better than being in Desea

[Master Shake]

Just wait till she hears about global warming. Maybe she’ll build a spaceship!

[Daffynition]

HAHAHA! Howz 'bout a small, inexpensive upgrade? The USCG may require a registration name "DON'T PANIC!!!"