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    Texting Teen Falls Down Manhole

    We all know that walking and texting is a tough combination -- but a Staten Island teen learned the hard way when she fell into an uncovered sewer manhole while trying to send a message.Now, the family of Alexa Longueira, 15, intends to sue.
    The girl suffered a fright and some scrapes on her arms back after she dropped into the hole on Victory Boulevard.


    "It was four or five feet, it was very painful. I kind of crawled out and the DEP guys came running and helped me," Longueria told the Staten Island Advance.. "They were just, like, 'I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
    For its part, the Department of Environmental Protection said its workers had turned away briefly to grab some cones when the incident occurred.
    "We regret that this happened and wish the young woman a speedy recovery," DEP spokeswoman Mercedes Padilla said in a statement. She added that crews were flushing a high-pressure sewer line at the time.
    The girl was checked out at Staten Island University Hospital and released.
    Sewer line workers are supposed to cut off pedestrian access to work sites or at least mark them with warning signs.
    The family said they will file a lawsuit -- for what, though, is not immediately clear. Her mother, Kim Longueira, said it doesn't matter that her daughter was walking and texting, and also, the 'gross' factor that can't be ignored.
    "Oh my God, it was putrid," she said. "One of her sneakers is still down there"


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    Excellent, there seems something so deserving about it. Wish there was a youtube vid for it.

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    funny as fuck. should look where she's going. manhole should sue her for intrusion!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spin
    The family said they will file a lawsuit
    Reading about Americans and their system of treating random misfortune as a kind of jackpot lottery makes me feel quite tired sometimes.

    If ill luck befalls you then you should never be compensated to a degree where it is better that the whole thing happened than if it hadn't.

    Falling five feet and landing up to your ankles in shit. How much would you have to pay me for me to agree to go through that experience?

    Not more than $1000 maybe just a few hundred. The compensation should never be more than 75% of the 'what would you have to pay somebody to endure it' figure. This number could be determined by polling a sample of people at random by telephone and describing the misfortune.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper
    Reading about Americans and their system of treating random misfortune as a kind of jackpot lottery makes me feel quite tired sometimes.
    You ever hear about Liverpool, England in the 1980's then?, those buggers used to dig up the paving slabs in the street so they were uneven......then pretend to fall over them to scam the local councils for thousands

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    Wish there was a youtube vid for it.
    A good title "Gone in 0000000.60 Seconds"

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    Quite a Man Hole. Did they use KY?

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    Is the reception still good inside a Man Hole?
    What about Emergency messages?
    911 text- I'm in a Man Hole.

    It's all a bit worrying.

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    Fuckwits!!!! It used to be bad enough putting up with people talking in their cell phones while driving... I regularly see these idiots texting while they drive...

    Serves the little idiot tight... Putting the fvcking phone down and watch where you're going...

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    I love the TD sense of compassion & empathy!

    All spot on, though. Rule #1 when walking - look where you're sodding going!

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    "Cn sum1 hlp me plz. Am in deep shit"

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