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Woman Hit by Train While Looking at Phone and Walking Is Back on Social Media
ABC News ^ | Feb 15, 2014 8:26pm | Liz Fields

Posted on 02/16/2014 10:19:23 PM PST by Olog-hai

Liza Dye is a living advertisement for why you shouldn’t walk while engrossed in something on your cell phone, especially before getting on the subway: The 25-year-old New York resident recently learned the hard way that technology can be hazardous to your health.

Dye fell onto the tracks in front of an oncoming subway train at New York’s Broadway-Lafayette Station, while engrossed with her phone on Thursday. The oncoming B train stopped short, but not before rolling right over the South Carolina native, who is lucky to be alive. …

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: distractedwalking; electronicpacifier; impairedwalking; lisadye; nyc; subwaytrain; texting; twwalking
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1 posted on 02/16/2014 10:19:24 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’m glad she’s not dead, she’s very lucky! God has blessed her, that is for sure.


2 posted on 02/16/2014 10:22:05 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Olog-hai

doesn’t she have a train app?


3 posted on 02/16/2014 10:25:28 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Electronic pacifier PING


4 posted on 02/16/2014 10:36:29 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Olog-hai; Slings and Arrows; null and void

“Liza Dye”

Unfortunate name, that.


5 posted on 02/16/2014 10:39:20 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Electronic version of a Carrot on a stick, they will follow the device anywhere.


6 posted on 02/16/2014 10:47:56 PM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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To: moose07

Zombies, but they don’t eat brains.


7 posted on 02/16/2014 11:01:22 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Olog-hai

I operate light rail trains. You would not believe the stupid things people do around trains and station platforms. Some of these people truly have a death wish.


8 posted on 02/16/2014 11:04:41 PM PST by Artcore
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To: a fool in paradise; Darksheare

"Missed her by *this* much!"

9 posted on 02/16/2014 11:10:20 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Artcore

This song is for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw


10 posted on 02/16/2014 11:12:16 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Lol!


11 posted on 02/16/2014 11:14:10 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare; Slings and Arrows
"Dye, a stand-up-comic,..."

Well, I have to say that was one heck of a walk-in act...

12 posted on 02/16/2014 11:22:42 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Darksheare; Slings and Arrows

Aaaaaand here’s some of her biting, socially relevant comedic commentary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQRrNLWCkrs


13 posted on 02/16/2014 11:37:49 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Darksheare

Encore! Encore!


14 posted on 02/16/2014 11:40:51 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Darksheare

Even Chuck can’t win ‘em all.


15 posted on 02/16/2014 11:41:33 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: shibumi
Some idiot would pay to listen to that?

We're... doooooomed!

16 posted on 02/16/2014 11:44:12 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Slings and Arrows

Vaudeville est mort!


17 posted on 02/16/2014 11:44:18 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Poor guy.
Next up, chucky taze Russell saying “don’t taze me bro!’


18 posted on 02/16/2014 11:45:57 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Artcore

Yeah, I’d believe it; I’ve seen a lot of it. Of course, the construction style of their stations necessitates all that penalty brake application for the sake of “safety”, never mind wearing out the cars’ brakes and suspension prematurely.


19 posted on 02/16/2014 11:46:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: shibumi

Is she mocking or praising Kanye West?

Poorly done humour, there.


20 posted on 02/16/2014 11:47:51 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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