Posted on 11/11/2009 6:21:16 AM PST by JoeProBono
The driver of a Boston subway train that stopped just inches short of a woman who had fallen onto the tracks says she expected the worst. Charice (shuh-REES') Lewis told CBS's "The Early Show" on Wednesday that she said to herself, "Please God, let this woman be OK" before getting out of her cab to check. Lewis said the woman just smiled at her.
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I couldn’t help but notice that there was no word about the fact that Sophia Hartdegen was drunk.
Uh oh. Conductor has committed Thought Crime by appealing to the Almighty, she will have to be sent to a re-education camp.
It's a sad comment on the times when those were my first thoughts as well.
What’s the old saying? God takes care of widows, orphans and drunks?
You got it!
Drunk - yup - interesting she knew to lay in the middle of the track to let the train go over her.
She actually could have made it.
Uh oh. Conductor has committed Thought Crime by appealing to the Almighty, she will have to be sent to a re-education camp.
I’m sure that her Gubbermint Union Shop Steward has already delivered her first reprimand
Let’s hope that we hear in future how she has quit drinking because of this incident. Wouldn’t that have been just horrid for those who would have witnessed the ending that could have been.
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