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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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To: fullchroma

The city should sue the girl for negligent sewer endangerment.


21 posted on 07/11/2009 12:23:18 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The boy's war in Detriot has already cost more then the war in Iraq.)
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To: Lmo56

“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.


22 posted on 07/11/2009 12:27:21 PM PDT by The Future 2012 (Would the good people like a reply?)
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To: Lmo56

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.


23 posted on 07/11/2009 12:29:34 PM PDT by miele man
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To: Lmo56
“It could have been an elderly person, a mother pushing a stroller. It could have been anyone.”

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.....

24 posted on 07/11/2009 12:40:04 PM PDT by Kimmers (Be the kind of person when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, Oh crap, she's awake)
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To: Kimmers
Sorry but you are wrong, it really could have been almost anybody. Lots of things can grab our attention long enough for us to make a misstep, it doesn't have to be texting or talking on a cell phone.
25 posted on 07/11/2009 12:43:56 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: GeronL

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.......


26 posted on 07/11/2009 12:58:32 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Lmo56
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...

As Ernest Hemingway would have said, all was ok up to here.

27 posted on 07/11/2009 1:16:55 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: Lmo56

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.


28 posted on 07/11/2009 1:25:36 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (I home school because I have seen the village and I don't want it raising my children.)
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To: Lmo56
The girl's mother said Alexa will see more doctors next week to get an MRI and check for damage to her spine.

An ambulance-chaser's wet dream.

29 posted on 07/11/2009 3:19:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Use of the term “manhole” is sexist. /sarc In this case, this particular manhole should be referred to as a girlhole now.


30 posted on 07/11/2009 5:53:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Lmo56

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


31 posted on 07/12/2009 9:23:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (THIS ADMINISTRATION IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!!!!!)
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To: Lmo56

HAHAHA texting, the next step in darwinism


32 posted on 07/12/2009 8:28:21 PM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
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To: Lmo56

Shouldn’t headline read “Teen Girl Falls Into Open Person-hole”? We can’t have NOW getting all huffy over sexist language.


33 posted on 07/13/2009 7:58:45 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd be embarrased to be driving a Yaris....)
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To: Wooly

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?


34 posted on 07/16/2009 12:55:33 PM PDT by Don W (The root word of diversity is DIVIDE)
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