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400-pound woman who plunged through UES sidewalk says size saved her life (NYC)
NY Post ^
| 1/13/13
| ERIN CALABRESE, REBECCA HARSHBARGER and FRANK ROSARIO
Posted on 01/13/2013 12:34:35 PM PST by jimbo123
Size does matter!
The 400-pound Queens pedestrian who crashed through an Upper East Side sidewalk said yesterday that a thinner woman might have died from that fall.
Thank God, they said that my size was the only thing that saved me, Ulanda Williams, 32, told The Post as she was discharged from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Williams, of Springfield Gardens, was waiting for a bus at about 9:10 p.m. Friday when she tried to hide from the rain under an awning.
The ground suddenly disappeared beneath her and she was swallowed whole by the cavernous space adjacent to the cellar of The Blue Room on Second Avenue.
It was horrible, absolutely horrible, said Williams, who broke her arm in two places in the 6-foot fall.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: napl; sidewalkviolence
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:34:39 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Hope she was wearing her Levi’s 1002 Blues. Probably protected her skin from abrasions.
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:38:43 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: jimbo123
People who take the subway have something new to worry about.
To: jimbo123
I'd sure like to have that click back :-\
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:43:39 PM PST
by
tomkat
( .. shall not be infringed)
To: tomkat
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:44:47 PM PST
by
Conserev1
To: jimbo123
Bounced?
Yeah, I know, pot ~vs~ kettle...Maybe my extra 20+ lbs might save my life someday...
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:47:37 PM PST
by
45semi
(A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
To: jimbo123
I guess she hasn’t considered that perhaps the sidewalk wouldn’t have collapsed at all if she had been a woman of a svelte 250 lbs?
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:49:31 PM PST
by
KevinB
(A country that would elect Barack Obama president twice is no longer worth fighting for.)
To: jimbo123; a fool in paradise
Wow, she was 300lb yesterday and grew 100 pounds in a day!
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:49:31 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: jimbo123
A thinner woman wouldn’t have gone through the sidwalk in the first place.
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:50:10 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The only thing that Hollywood gets right about guns is that criminals will always get them.)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:50:48 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Revolting cat!
I thought the same thing...
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:51:50 PM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:53:34 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Maybe she blames “the cheap sidewalk.”
To: jimbo123
A thinner woman might not have busted the sidewalk!
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:56:29 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: jimbo123
A couple who are good friends of mine stopped and prayed before driving across an area on a CO mountain pass that was prone to avalanches. They were swept off the mountain, but survived with only minor injuries, the first people to ever survive being swept into the canyon at that point. They attributed their survival to God’s intervention because they had prayed for his protection.
I pointed out that if they hadn’t stopped to pray, they would have been past the danger section before the avalanche hit.
My analysis was not particularly appreciated.
To: jimbo123
Step on a crack, break your mother`s back
To: jimbo123; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Photo at the link.The Macy's Parade is early this year.
[Thanks for Gefn for the ping!]
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:58:37 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: jimbo123; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Photo at the link.The Macy's Parade is early this year.
[Thanks for Gefn for the ping!]
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posted on
01/13/2013 12:59:30 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: jimbo123
I dunno... I think I saw a demo of what happens when you drop a mouse 6 feet and what happens when you drop a cow. Something about impact force and the mass of a falling object??
I could be wrong, but as I recall, it didn't go so well for the cow...
To: Slings and Arrows
Take that, Bloomberg! If your soda law had been in place two or three years ago, this woman would be dead now!
Yeah, not really.
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posted on
01/13/2013 1:01:02 PM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Don't worry about the cliff. We're going to all land on some rich guy's wallet.)
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