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Re: Texting Your Way to the Pits

tracyohio1969 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:37:14 -0000

She is entitled to some $$$$$ ... wasnt her fault there were no cones or someone not attending to the open manhole. So she was texting on her phone, big deal. I am sure if it was one of you walking around and some sexy mama or hot hunk caught your eye and you werent paying attention to where you were going, you would complain also.... correct? and before you all go nutso, I said WALKING and texting, not DRIVING.

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tracyohio1969 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:37:14 -0000

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grimmice — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:43:10 -0000

Hey, I walked into a parking meter once. My distraction was a beautiful girl on the other side of the street. I made a first class impression, landing on my can with a bruised ego. If I was texting, this might not have happened.

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grimmice — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:43:10 -0000

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headlesshorse — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:01:32 -0000

joe242 - Good for the city she was "another wise Latina", had this been a Jewish girl her shyster dad&#39s lawsuit would have probably bankrupted NYC.

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kim13 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:20:02 -0000

First off her race has nothing to do with it, FYI she is not Latino, and just saying that was wrong, what does anyones race have to do with it when something bad happens to them? Ive read comments on all sorts of boards and blogs and I have to tell you, people today have nothing better than to bash each others, well, being or mis-fortunes. A mistake was made and on the part of the DEP workers who were working at the time, everyone is bashing the teen (15 years old) for not watching where she is going? How about the fact that the ADULT DEP worker lacks the common sense to NOT leave a manhole unatteneded or better yet, dont even open it until the proper (and by law) safety precautions are in place. Oh and one more tidbit...she was being "handed" the phone-which was not even hers...
If it were any one of you...or your own...I dont think you would be blogging away here about how stupid you are...or what an idiot your mother is etc...anyway just my two sense
That young girls MOM

Re: Texting Your Way to the Pits

headlesshorse — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:01:32 -0000

joe242 - Good for the city she was "another wise Latina", had this been a Jewish girl her shyster dad's lawsuit would have probably bankrupted NYC.

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kim13 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:20:02 -0000

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GeorgeSorwell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:55:07 -0000

I think the great American philosopher Mel Brooks determined the following definitions:

Tragedy is when I, personally, get a hangnail.

Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die.

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GeorgeSorwell — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:55:07 -0000

I think the great American philosopher Mel Brooks determined the following definitions:

Tragedy is when I, personally, get a hangnail.

Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die.

Re: Texting Your Way to the Pits

Orion — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:33:00 -0000

katgib13: Why do you think auto insurance rates for teens are so high? I&#39ve seen studies that the human brain doesn&#39t really "mature" until it&#39s about 25 years old. In point of fact car accidents go way down at about this point; that&#39s why insurance rates drop once you&#39re 25.

Numbers don&#39t lie: Teens do stupid things and the accident rates by age bear that out. I look back and cringe at some of the stupid things I did growing up.

Re: Texting Your Way to the Pits

joe242 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:47:15 -0000

Another wise Latina.

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katgib13 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:30:00 -0000

The scary thing is....the kids about a year older than her are out DRIVING and texting.

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Orion — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:33:00 -0000

katgib13: Why do you think auto insurance rates for teens are so high? I've seen studies that the human brain doesn't really "mature" until it's about 25 years old. In point of fact car accidents go way down at about this point; that's why insurance rates drop once you're 25.

Numbers don't lie: Teens do stupid things and the accident rates by age bear that out. I look back and cringe at some of the stupid things I did growing up.

Re: Texting Your Way to the Pits

skeedro — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:26:48 -0000

Survival of the fittest.
NO we do not need any type of "reform" for texting. Common sense and the lessons learned the hard way.... (i.e. bet she never does it again)...
One of our social problems now is that one person makes a dumb mistake (we all do) and liberals start yelling for reform and rules and regulations to be put in place... examples of these are found on anything you purchase... Do we really need to be told that McDonald&#39s coffee is HOT??? Oi.

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pacatrue — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:18:52 -0000

It is amusing to me how every generation holds the next generation&#39s techie past time with amusement or disdain. Parents in their 20s couldn&#39t understand why their kids spent all their time listening to the radio when they could be outside. Those kids disdained their kids&#39 TV, who disdained their kids&#39 personal computers or walkmans, who hated the next generation&#39s cell phones, who hated the texting they didn&#39t grow up with. There have to be similar stories of people laughing at some accident triggered by every interesting device that the laughers didn&#39t grow up on. The texters will write funny articles in their 30s and 40s about how 15-year-old Susie fell in the man hole while obssessed with her Spacely Sprocket.

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britneyAndrews — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:11:23 -0000

So last nite me + trevor went 2 movies with his cuz + we saw Trans4mers2 + his cuzs lil sis came becuz she was bored lol + she tried to hit on Trev but shes only 12 so me + her went into the bathroom and I had a lil talk her and BTW the movie wuz so bad + she started crying so trevors cuz had to go into the girls room and.........

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williamputnam — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:52:31 -0000

I sometimes wonder if Darwin way right (and I actually do not believe in his theory.)

Somehow, I wonder if the idea of :"gene purification" is at worik here.....?????

Alas, she survived.....

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katythemeanoldlady — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:49:23 -0000

I lived in NYC for 30 yrs. If you are texting and falling down manhole covers you are also stepping in to traffic.Classic plea for tort reform! Walking while stupid.

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fuzzlenutter — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:52:36 -0000

And you know what? She&#39ll get it...

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fuzzlenutter — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:51:18 -0000

I&#39ve seen several stories on the Internet about this silly little twat, and all were poking fun at at the negligence on her part. I&#39d be willing to bet dollars to donuts that her lawsuit lawyer brings these stories up, babbling about how she&#39s been "embarrassed and ridiculed" by strangers and therefore, along with the original $50,000, she also deserves at least $5,000,000 more.

Mark my words...

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Sondiehl — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:48:18 -0000

Sad to think, though, that as a quirk of fate, this young lady failed to qualify for this year&#39s Darwin Awards.

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archangel — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:47:36 -0000

dear snifft, you made me laugh

T-Steel: youre far wiser than your years

and... long ago, being a waitress, I stepped backward to see if there were any more dishes on the topmost high shelf.... and fell through a huge hole in the floor that was normally covered by a full size door in the floor, because it covered a staircase to the basement. I thought I had died, for everything went black. Broke this and that, but was ok. Bones mend. Still, you dont have to be on a phone to &#39fall.&#39 You can just be having a boss who is yelling at everyone in the back room and trying to do everything faster and faster in order to try to please him.

In any and either case, you are right T-Steel, about split attention. CAn be so dangerous.

dr.e

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joe242 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:47:15 -0000

Another wise Latina.

Re: Texting Your Way to the Pits

katgib13 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:30:00 -0000

The scary thing is....the kids about a year older than her are out DRIVING and texting.