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 ...
The city should sue the girl for negligent sewer endangerment.
“Understood - but this is just ANOTHER example of self-absorbed youth not paying attention and then wanting to sue over it ...”
Good point. She should watch where she’s going, but the workers were ‘e stupid too.
Well, did she lose her phone in the muck or did she manage to hold onto it despite the indignity she suffered at the hands of the obviously incompetent city sewer workers? (sarc) The article does not say.
Get a clue mom, and elderly person or a mom pushing a stroller would be not be texting and paying attention to where they were going.....if that were my kid I would be glad she was okay and take the phone away from her because she was being stooooopid.....
I imagine the state lawmakers will immediately propose a law to ban texting while walking
Right, since probally 3/4 of their staffs do this..........
No,look for a law banning open manholes.......
As Ernest Hemingway would have said, all was ok up to here.
She was lucky she fell into a manhole and that something worse didn’t happen to her. People who don’t pay attention to their surroundings put themselves in danger from criminals. That aside, there should have been cones or something marking the open manhole.
An ambulance-chaser's wet dream.
Use of the term “manhole” is sexist. /sarc In this case, this particular manhole should be referred to as a girlhole now.
If I were the judge in thiscase I would make the girl pay expenses for being so stupid
SOMEONE has to teach her a lesson before she kills herself
HAHAHA texting, the next step in darwinism
Shouldn’t headline read “Teen Girl Falls Into Open Person-hole”? We can’t have NOW getting all huffy over sexist language.
I was riding down the highway a couple weeks ago, and a new driver (we have graduated licensing and signage on vehicles here) was texting in the left lane.
Well, she WAS in the left lane, but was wandering into mine! The look of abject terror on her face when I slapped her passenger’s side window said it all: She had completely forgotten she was driving! At 60 MPH this is NOT a good thing!
I’m no technophobe, but there has to be a way to prevent such flagrant and dangerous inattention. Laws are not the answer, but what would be an effective way of preventing such dangerous behaviour?
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