RSSAlexa Longueira, Teen Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting & Blames DEP for Incident … Don’t Walk and Text
Friends don’t let friends walk and text …
When is a person responsible to actually watch wear they are walking? So much for personal responsibility. Isn’t it one’s responsibility to mitigate their damages and actually be required to look where they are walking?
Who actually walks into an open man hole?
In what can only be described as the DUH moment of the week and also the, no fool, it is your fault and stop blaming others comes this incredible story from Staten Island, New York.
Alexa Longueira, a 15 year old high school sophomore was walking along a boulevard in Staten Island, NY when suddenly she fell into an open man hole and into the sewer. Would one need a warning sign at the edge of a cliff, or would someone walk off the edge of it as if they were Wile E. Coyote?
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.”
The first question one might ask is, how in the hell did Alexa Longueira actually walk into an open manhole? The answer … she was texting while walking and not paying attention to where she was going. So much for any type of personal responsibility. How is it not one’s duty to actually watch where they are walking? So if she walked out into on-coming traffic while texting, that would be the drivers fault?
“Regardless of whether I’m texting or not if there was a cone there I’m gong to see a big orange cone,” she said. “I walk that sidewalk every day, I don’t expect a big hole there.”
Of course in our “no personal responsibility” and “sue happy” nation, the family wants $’s because of their daughter’s lack of paying attention. I guess where we know where she learned responsibility from. Earth to Longueira family, an elderly person or mother pushing a stroller would have the common sense to see the open man hole and avoid it.
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.”
Maybe the Longueira family needs to talk to this kid who has experience with walk and taxting.
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Poor Darling. Can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. TEXTING HUH?. I hope she broke something. She needs put in a rehab center for stupidity. Get a life idiot.
The perfect victim type for the New World
Order Supporter. Please take care of me,
I cannot do it alone! Everyone is responsible
for my problems except me. It takes a village.
The Government will provide for this person
using money of others and expecting votes
in return. Easy, huh?
SuperSize that order of Stupid, thanks!
The perfect victim type for the New World
Order Supporter. Please take care of me,
I cannot do it alone! Everyone is responsible
for my problems except me. It takes a village.
The Government will provide for this person
using money of others and expecting votes
in return. Easy, huh?
SuperSize that order of Witless Wings, thanks!
Perfect Obowma Supporter material.
A guaranteed vote for the Nanny Statists.
Stupid is as stupid does, sir.
How many times have I watched teens doing the exact same thing. Completely engrossed in texting and not paying one bit of attention to what it going on around them including looking where they are walking.
What would have occurred if this same girl had walking into an elderly person or a baby carriage and knocked them over and injured a baby or old person? Would that be their fault to?
The fact of the matter is, this fool would never have even seen any cones if they were there in the first place.
Did your parents teach you to cross the road without looking as well, instead just text.
R
of course she is suing. that is what lazy, i don’t want to take responsibility people do. she is fine. and i hope the judge laughs her out of court. she needs to learn a lesson.
To actually watch this happen, would be reminiscient to watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon. With an ACME anvil not far behind.
Greetings:
I grew up in the Bronx. There were signs for the alternate side of the street parking regulations every couple of hundred feet. One day, as I was walking along, I was viewing a sweet young thing on the other side of the street. Just as I turned back to see where I was going, I walked right into the sign pole, raising an swelling the size of an egg in the center of my forehead in seconds. I can still hear the echo of that sign-pole ringing like a tuning fork. God punished me for lusting in my heart. I would have been too embarrassed to tell anyone the story to sue.
On a lighter note, my favorite manhole story:
Back in the ’70s, I was working in the social service industry for the State of New York. At that time, our leaders had discovered the joys of “gender neutral” language and had implemented a training seminar for all their employees. At the appointed time and place, we all met with our office manager to receive our enlightenment, but, alas, the woman who was to conduct the training was tardy. Initially, our manager decided to make use of the time by giving us his take on the issue. After two minutes of droning, he, semi-exasperated, asked if anyone knew where the trainer was.
Lenny, our office wit, answered, “Maybe she fell down a person-hole.”
Nice try Kid.
#9 – LOL
In a couple of years they will give her a license to drive. Meanwhile there will be a new round of safety training and procedures for sewer workers…
@12: or the right to carrie a gun
DARWIN, OH DARWIN! This story could have only been better if she would have been washed out to sea, never to be seen again! Thin The Herd!
stupid (edit) watch where you’re walking
going and blaming some poor workers when you need to go to an eye clinic
even a little kid wouldn’t jump into that hole – u deserve more injuries than u got just for being so dumb
u deserve more injuries than u got for being so stupid