Texting Teen Falls Down Open Manhole on Staten Island

[WriteDown]

Source: myfoxny.com

YFOXNY.COM - One second a Staten Island teenager was walking down the street, the next second she was gone.

Alexa Longueira was walking down Victory Boulevard and getting ready to text-message when she fell into an open sewer manhole. Now the city is trying to figure out why the manhole was left open and unblocked.

Alexa suffered some cuts and scrapes but is otherwise OK.

He mother says workers told her they left the manhole open and unattended for just seconds while they went to fetch some cones from their truck....

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/nyc/090710_Texting_Teen_Falls_Down_Open_Manhole

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Luckily, she's not dead. Geez! Can you say oblivious.

[WriteDown]

1. Oh and forgot...

Of course they are filing a lawsuit. Can you say ka-ching? Like winning the lottery.

[Renew Deal]

3. Oh yeah

Con Ed is going to pay.

[Mz Pip]

5. How much are

a few scrapes a bruises worth? This is just stupid.

If it had been my kid, I would have taken away the damn phone.

[Blasphemer]

7. Seriously...

I could understand if she were badly injured and needed to be hospitalized but as it stands, she's fine and the DEP is investigating. It's pretty much the best possible outcome but, of course, they see dollar signs.

[WriteDown]

12. Bingo...

I'm sure they'll get a huge payout though and move somewhere East on LI.

[Posteritatis]

24. Eleventeen quadzillion dollars for mental anguish. Duh. (nt)

[jazzjunkysue]

27. She could have walked in front of a bus, too. Wakey, wakey!

[MineralMan]

2. Teenager -- Oblivious to World -- Deep in Shit...

There. I fixed the headline.

[ChromeFoundry]

4. Perfect headline!

I nearly spit coffee on my keyboard... thanks! :spray:

[DerekJ]

16. LOOOOOL. DUzy.

[Odin2005]

38. LOL!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Glad she's OK but the evil voice in my head said "we need more open manholes."

[TheEuclideanOne]

11. Well, since we are going to be evil....

The one thought that came to mind for me was "God works in mysterious ways!"

[mitchum]

8. I M FUCKD!

[lumberjack_jeff]

32. LOL!

[TheEuclideanOne]

9. They found these text messages on her phone.....

Billy: Wot R U doing?
Alexa: Just walking down the streaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :(

[MikeE]

10. I live next to a University

and have had to pull more than one student back from walking in front of a car while texting.

[merwin]

13. That's why you should get cell phones with full keyboards for texting.

Don't have any need to look at the phone while typing. That way I can at least keep a visual on cars while typing. I know the same can be done with a T9 phone, but with those you have to look down to make sure it's guessing the right word.

[dysfunctional press]

36. "Don't have any need to look at the phone while typing..."

i can't even type on a full-size computer keyboard without looking at my fingers...and with my large rounded fingers, trying to type on a phone-sized keyboard, especially without looking at it, would yield entirely incoherent messages.

then again, it really doesn't matter, because i've never sent a text message, and probably won't be anytime soon.

[emilyg]

14. Good. I see

people crossings streets without taking their eyes off their phone.

[uncle ray]

15. i 'm not defending her texting, but

how many of us stare at the ground as we walk? we've all tripped over a threshold, curb or similar obstruction in our path even when we are paying attention.

[SeattleLeft]

17. 2 things wrong here

I see three things wrong in this story First Con ED had no barricades around the open man hole, Second The teenage girl was not looking where she was going and finally her friend did not alert her to the danger of the open manhole.

[lumberjack_jeff]

33. The friend has a camera phone.

OMG this goez sr8 to facebook!

[cufford]

18. Walking Blind

I don't know about anyone else, but I always tend to watch where I'm walking, just so this sort of thing doesn't happen. Isn't that what we have eyes for?

[AlphaCentauri]

19. many teenagers don't use them very well

their only windows to the world are the screen in their phone, their TV or PC, God forbid this kids would claim a tree without a helmet.

[Unvanguard]

20. Haha. I never text, but could potentially do that while reading. n/t

[Wizard777]

21. First there was stop, drop, and roll.

Now we have stop, drop, and text GET ME THE HELL OUTTA HERE!

[Swede]

22. SSIF

:shrug:

[Posteritatis]

23. Was she texting Darwin? (nt)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. "Oh, My God, Kimmy, like you won't like beleive where I am!"

[bridgit]

26. What's that, Lassie? What's that, girl? Alexa's txting from the bottom of a well hm...

I wonder how she got down there

[jazzjunkysue]

28. "Ewwww. Starbucks doesn't usually smell THIS bad. I'm outta here."

You did say Staten Island, right?

[BlooInBloo]

29. hahahah!

[lpbk2713]

30. "I'll text Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island too ...

... it's lovely landing in ... the poo."

[slampoet]

31. OMG the reception down here is awful.

[frebrd]

34. I think that's hilarious.......

I wish some "texting" drivers would drive down a hole!


:)

[npk]

35. At least she had a phone to call for help

I could only imagine that 911 call.

Probably something like "Um I was walking down the street texting my BBFO and the next thing I know I fell into a big whole. Can you help me please."

I am sure the 911 operator was a little perplexed and maybe chuckling under her breath.

[Odin2005]

37. I'm such an oblivious klutz I'm surprised that hasn't happened to me.

[obliviously]

39. Yes I can! N/T

[Liberal_in_LA]

40. young women are totally unaware when walking texting/cell phoning.

[johnaries]

41. Sounds like a Warner Bros cartoon.

OK, yeah, the workers shoudl have set the cones out first and THEN opened the cover. But, the question has to be asked - if she didn't notice a big hole in the ground would she have noticed the cones?

[Fire1]

44. My first thought, exactly!! lmao!!!

:rofl:

[musette_sf]

42. Darwin Award nominee!

[Brigid]

43. Not to make light of this, but . . .

Isn't there something of "it had to happen" in this?