Teenager Alexa Longueira falls through manhole into sewer – another viction of the carnage caused by WWT – walking while texting!
Teen Girl Falls
Into Open Manhole
While Texting
By Dave Carlin
July 11th, 2009
WCBSTV.COM
It was an accident
waiting to happen —
an open sewer and a
15-year-old girl who
was texting while she walked.
Alexa Longueira,
a high school sophomore,
was walking along Victory
Boulevard near Travis Avenue
on Staten Island Wednesday
evening when she felt the
earth move and was
plunged into smelly darkness.
She said the manhole
She said the manhole
she fell in to was left open
and unattended with no
warning signs or orange cones.
She said two workers with
the New York City Department
of Environmental Protection
failed to secure the area
as they prepared to
flush the sewer.
“It was just really
gross and it was
shocking and scary,”
.
she said.
“Because of their
careless mistake
I got hurt.”
Longueira has deep cuts
Longueira has deep cuts
and bruises and said she
now has nightmares
about falling,
But she also did admit
she was texting
at the time.
“Regardless of
“Regardless of
whether I’m texting
or not if there was
a cone there I’m
going to see a big
orange cone,”
she said.
“I walk that
sidewalk every day,
I don’t expect a
big hole there.”
Longueira said she
was helped out of the
five-foot deep sewer by
an apologetic DEP worker.
She went to the hospital
She went to the hospital
and the city opened
an investigation,
issuing the following statement:
“We regret that this happened
“We regret that this happened
and wish the young woman
a speedy recovery.”
The Longueira family wants
The Longueira family wants
more than get well wishes.
They may sue.
Alexa’s mother, Kim,
said:
“It could have been
an elderly person,
a mother pushing a stroller.
It could have been anyone.”
Alexa lost one of her
sneakers in the sewer.
She does not
want it back.
Stop The Walking
And Texting Carnage;
Practice Safe Text
By Lloyd Alter, Toronto
April 3rd, 2008
TREEHUGGER.COM
TreeHugger has discussed
the danger of using electronics
while walking or biking;
we like to encourage people
to walk or ride and to do it
as safely as possible.
In London,
a study found that one in
ten cellphone users has hurt
themselves by walking into
things while texting;
the Daily Express says six
million Britons were injured
last year.
To prevent this,
.
The charity Living Streets
are testing the padding of
lamposts and signs to
stop the carnage.
Geekologie is not impressed:
“Next they’re going
.
to start padding cars.
I say screw the padding,
add sharp spikes
to the poles.
If you can’t manage
to look where you’re
walking then you deserve
to lose all that blood.”
They suggest that perhaps
an automatic message
could be broadcast from
each pole.
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You know its funny, there are alot of disabled blind people out there, that would love a pair healthy seeing eyes, just so they could get around with out assistance of people and animals. And yet this teen and her mother think eyes are made for texting and not paying attention to thier surroundings. They feel they are entitled, to money because her daughter is not using her primary senses in the way they should be used. Why are stupid people being rewarded for thier own stupidity. Her mother should be thankful her daughter wasnt hit by a car or a bus because shes so busy texting. Maybe if this was a good mother and not so interested on how much she can now leech from society for her daughter`s stupidity, she would have a good long talk with her daughter about paying attention. What if her daughter had stepped on a small child because of texting. What happens when this oblivious and self entitled teen starts driving and texting at the same time. There is no lesson being learnt here, only a grab for societies money
Jose - July 13, 2009 at 5:21 pm