Woman Hit by Train While Looking at Phone and Walking Is Back on Social Media

ABC News ^ | Feb 15, 2014 8:26pm | Liz Fields

[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. …

[NoCmpromiz]

Just think of the flash and instant attention she would have created if she contacted that third rail...

600 VDC is very unforgiving. But it does bar-b-que real good..

[Darksheare]

She’d have had a better comedic outing if she’d peed on the third rail.

Might’ve boosted her intelligence by a whole three points.

[Slings and Arrows]

From the Bugs Bunny cartoon:

“Wow, that’s a great act, Daffy!”

“Yeah, but I can only do it once.”

[shibumi]

I merely pointed at the scene.

Not suggesting that you in any way become part of it.

Personally, I view this person’s accident as a mechanism by which the emerging Hive Mind sluffs off an unwanted brain cell.

[James C. Bennett]

LOL

[NoCmpromiz]

..sluffs off an unwanted brain cell.

but has it been sloughed off if it's still alive and tweeting??

[Darksheare]

Patience.
First, the sacrifice must be tenderized.
If it recants its ways it may be saved.
Otherwise, blood for the blood god!

[shibumi]

The organism is still emerging.

Its self-sustenance and self-maintenance protocols are not yet perfected.

[NoCmpromiz]

The organism is still emerging.

Then... we can apply your tagline!

[NoCmpromiz]

First, the sacrifice must be tenderized. If it recants its ways it may be saved. Otherwise, blood for the blood god!

I'm not so sure your Soteriology is correct...

[Darksheare]

“You must destroy the monster...with fire. Only then will you be assured that it is truly destroyed!” -page one “book of rambling geezer.” Chapter “technozombies”.

[shibumi]

[Darksheare]

It is all in the holy writ of the mangled operator.
“Offer not thy flesh to unknown mechaneities for I am a jealous machine and will readily devour your meaty bits at next communing!”

[Darksheare]

Slaneeshi tour guides.

[shibumi]

And foretold by The Elder Malaclypse

(A wandering Wiseman of Ancient Mediterrania (``Med-Terra'' or middle earth), who followed a 5-pointed Star through the alleys of Rome, Damascus, Baghdad, Jerusalem, Mecca and Cairo, bearing a sign that seemed to read ``DOOM.'' (This is a misunderstanding. The sign actually read ``DUMB.'' Mal-1 is a Non-Prophet.) Patron and namesake of Mal-2. Patron of the Season of The Aftermath. Holyday: Oct 24)

[skinkinthegrass]

*jaw drop*
LOL! :-D :-D :-D
that has to be the funniest public services announcement, I've ever seen.

[Slings and Arrows]

It’s funny AND educational!

[skinkinthegrass]

*snickering* ..well, that was a real waste of time..
and here i am @ 4:52a

[Slings and Arrows]

[skinkinthegrass]

i guess, i am.. d:-P