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Teen Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting
wcbs tv ^ | 8/11/2009 | Dave Carlin

Posted on 07/11/2009 11:45:31 AM PDT by Lmo56

It was an accident waiting to happen -- an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked.

Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness ...

(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: darwin; manhole; texting
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Jeez !!! I hate when that happens !!!

Darwin nomination anyone ???

1 posted on 07/11/2009 11:45:31 AM PDT by Lmo56
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To: Lmo56

Situatuinal awareness, ftw.


2 posted on 07/11/2009 11:46:13 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Lmo56

Yes, natural selection at work.


3 posted on 07/11/2009 11:47:11 AM PDT by donaldo
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To: Lmo56

I smell a lawsuit.


4 posted on 07/11/2009 11:47:55 AM PDT by fullchroma (I want my country back.)
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To: Lmo56

i fell LOL it ttlly stinx n here


5 posted on 07/11/2009 11:49:37 AM PDT by Sloth (The Second Amendment is the ultimate "term limit.")
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To: Sloth

lol


6 posted on 07/11/2009 11:51:12 AM PDT by kenth
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To: fullchroma

Indeed. It’s like hitting the lottery to some people.


7 posted on 07/11/2009 11:52:10 AM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: Sloth

OMG thnk i just saw a turd float by LOL

IDK Y they left that manhole opn

can smbdy call 911 i want out LOL


8 posted on 07/11/2009 11:53:02 AM PDT by Sloth (The Second Amendment is the ultimate "term limit.")
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To: Sloth

In the past year I have seen more and more of the 25 and below bunch driving with their elbows while holding the phone and texting while driving.


9 posted on 07/11/2009 11:54:37 AM PDT by Wooly
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To: Lmo56

I imagine the state lawmakers will immediately propose a law to ban texting while walking


10 posted on 07/11/2009 11:54:54 AM PDT by GeronL ( Patriotic Insurrectionist at tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Wooly

The last text message was more like

I C U SOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN


11 posted on 07/11/2009 11:55:50 AM PDT by Wooly
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To: fullchroma

The city or the cell phone company?

It was her fault, of course, but who will she go after?


12 posted on 07/11/2009 11:59:47 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Wooly

Naah. Can’t be.

That would have breached the 160-character limit.

Jokes aside, no one should expect an open, unmarked manhole on the sidewalks. If this were to be an old/ blind person, there would have been a death because of the negligence.


13 posted on 07/11/2009 12:00:09 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: Lmo56

www.textsfromlastnight.com


14 posted on 07/11/2009 12:01:24 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) We know how to deal with Iran.)
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Wonder if she kept texting? It’s probably on her twitter account........... OMG u guyz i juz fel in the sewr! I IZ Such a kltz.......LOL


15 posted on 07/11/2009 12:05:00 PM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

Jokes aside, no one should expect an open, unmarked manhole on the sidewalks. If this were to be an old/ blind person, there would have been a death because of the negligence.

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Understood - but this is just ANOTHER example of self-absorbed youth not paying attention and then wanting to sue over it ...


16 posted on 07/11/2009 12:05:57 PM PDT by Lmo56
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re: 14: Some of those texts are pretty raunchy, but some are just hysterical.


17 posted on 07/11/2009 12:06:44 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) We know how to deal with Iran.)
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...she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness ...

Oh, classic bodice-ripper material.

18 posted on 07/11/2009 12:09:34 PM PDT by Allegra ( Socks)
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"Because of their careless mistake I got hurt."

Libtard in the making.

19 posted on 07/11/2009 12:20:14 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: Lmo56
Alexa lost one of her sneakers in the sewer. She does not want it back.

I hear you...

20 posted on 07/11/2009 12:20:56 PM PDT by John123 (Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
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