Girls Play 'Chicken' With SUV - Lie Down In Road - Get Run Over

[matcom]

<snip>

Two Hudson girls were injured but lucky to be alive after losing a game of "chicken" with an SUV at a slumber party over the weekend, a state trooper said Tuesday.

The girls, age 13 and 14, were attending a slumber party Friday night at a house along state Highway 103 west of Hudson when they decided to lie in the road, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Ramey Bass said. Just before 9 p.m., a dark-colored SUV with chrome wheels passed, running over both girls. The driver didn't stop, Bass said. The area was fairly dark, the only lights coming from a church next door to the party.

State police are withholding the girls' names because they are juveniles.

The girls remained in Lufkin hospitals Tuesday, one suffering internal injuries, the other having a broken collarbone and several lost teeth, Bass said. Updated information on the girls' conditions was not available.

One family member of the girl who suffered the broken collarbone said her injuries were even more extensive.

The two were the first girls to play the game, lying along the center stripe on Highway 103, according to another family member, who asked not to be identified.

"It sounds scary," she said.

http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/10/12/20051012LDNchicken.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. "It sounds scary..."

More like "it sounds stupid" to me. :hi:

[MissB]

6. mmmhmmm

They are lucky to be alive.

[underpants]

2. Ramey Bass

Ram your what?

Many options there.

[Democrats_win]

3. Why did the SUV cross the chickens?

Because they were there?

[XemaSab]

4. Texas

n/t

[GOPisEvil]

7. Specifically East Texas.

:scared:

[XemaSab]

8. What,

no football or chicken fights to go to?

[GOPisEvil]

11. This wouldn't have happened on a Friday night.

Just sayin'...

[sasquatch]

16. That's all that needs to be said.

[JVS]

5. If they die, I expect to see this on the Darwin awards page

[miss_kitty]

10. They only have to ruin their ability to reproduce...

[miss_kitty]

9. really stupid

i wonder if either or both sustained injuries bad enough to put them in the running for the Darwin Awards? We can only hope.

"...The two were the first girls to play the game..." It sounds as if others played AFTER they did.

[jane_pippin]

12. Get these girls video games or a teen center for cryin' out loud.

Something. Or a DVD that explains why lying in the middle of the road can hurt and/or kill you.

[LisaL]

13. Actually, sounds like a movie was responsible for getting them

in this predicament. Apparently, they were copying something they saw in a movie.

[jane_pippin]

15. Then my DVD idea should be a winner with these cinema lovers.

I'm glad they're more or less ok--meaning not dead--after doing it, but MAN what a stupid thing to do. I remember boys doing this based on some movie back in the 90's too. Stupid then, stupid now.

[redqueen]

21. Were they from Texas also?

So nice to see the Texas bashing is still going strong. :sarcasm:

[jane_pippin]

23. I don't know where they were from. I didn't realize I was bashing TX.

I just remember hearing stories on the news when I was in high school about kids laying in the middle of the street based on some movie. Now, here are more kids doing it.
I don't care where they're from--it's stupid to lay in the middle of the street and think you're not going to get hit by a car.

[redqueen]

25. No, not you... upthread - posts 4 & 16

I was only responding to you to find out if you knew if those incidents occurred in TX also. I doubt they did.

Sorry for the misplaced complaining. :)

[jane_pippin]

26. Ah. Gotcha. I honestly don't know...

I just remember making fun of jocks who thought that was a good idea.

I believe idiocy knows no region. ;)

[defiant1]

22. Actually....

it's their own damn fault for not realizing that lying in the middle of a dark road, at night, is not a good idea.

The LT hit it on the head...

"At what point do you think about telling them not to lie down in the road?" he said.

You are told when you are a little kid that you don't cross the street without looking both ways, so that you don't get hit by an oncoming car.

I can't even conjure up any sympathy for these idiots.

[ronnykmarshall]

14. Stupid asses!

I hope this two never breed.

[LibertyLover]

17. So in years to come

will their kids be asking "mama, how did you get those tread marks on you?"?

[Fleshdancer]

18. wow. slumber parties have changed a lot since I was 14

What happened to scary movies, prank calling boys and playing with a Ouija board?

[matcom]

19. that was YOU who kept calling

wasn't it? :cry:

[Fleshdancer]

20. hell yeah! oh, and by the way....

is your refrigerator still running? Is it?

[Texasgal]

24. Or...

" Is this horseshoe lounge?"

"No"

" Gee, I coulda' sworn I was talking to a drunk!"

:rofl:

[Orsino]

27. "...FIRST girls to play the game"?

Please tell me they were also the last.