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Woman Hit by Train While Looking at Phone and Walking Is Back on Social Media
ABC News ^
| Feb 15, 2014 8:26pm
| Liz Fields
Posted on 02/16/2014 10:19:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
Liza Dye is a living advertisement for why you shouldn’t walk while engrossed in something on your cell phone, especially before getting on the subway: The 25-year-old New York resident recently learned the hard way that technology can be hazardous to your health.
Dye fell onto the tracks in front of an oncoming subway train at New York’s Broadway-Lafayette Station, while engrossed with her phone on Thursday. The oncoming B train stopped short, but not before rolling right over the South Carolina native, who is lucky to be alive. …
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: distractedwalking; electronicpacifier; impairedwalking; lisadye; nyc; subwaytrain; texting; twwalking
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posted on
02/16/2014 10:19:24 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I’m glad she’s not dead, she’s very lucky! God has blessed her, that is for sure.
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posted on
02/16/2014 10:22:05 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: Olog-hai
doesn’t she have a train app?
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posted on
02/16/2014 10:25:28 PM PST
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/16/2014 10:36:29 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: Olog-hai; Slings and Arrows; null and void
“Liza Dye”
Unfortunate name, that.
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posted on
02/16/2014 10:39:20 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare
Electronic version of a Carrot on a stick, they will follow the device anywhere.
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posted on
02/16/2014 10:47:56 PM PST
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day.)
To: moose07
Zombies, but they don’t eat brains.
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:01:22 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Olog-hai
I operate light rail trains. You would not believe the stupid things people do around trains and station platforms. Some of these people truly have a death wish.
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:04:41 PM PST
by
Artcore
To: a fool in paradise; Darksheare
"Missed her by *this* much!"
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:10:20 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Artcore
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:12:16 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:14:10 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare; Slings and Arrows
"Dye, a stand-up-comic,..."
Well, I have to say that was one heck of a walk-in act...
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:22:42 PM PST
by
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
To: NoCmpromiz; Darksheare; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:37:49 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: NoCmpromiz; Darksheare
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:40:51 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Darksheare
Even Chuck can’t win ‘em all.
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:41:33 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: shibumi
Some idiot would pay to listen to that?
We're... doooooomed!
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:44:12 PM PST
by
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
To: NoCmpromiz; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:44:18 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Poor guy.
Next up, chucky taze Russell saying “don’t taze me bro!’
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:45:57 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Artcore
Yeah, I’d believe it; I’ve seen a lot of it. Of course, the construction style of their stations necessitates all that penalty brake application for the sake of “safety”, never mind wearing out the cars’ brakes and suspension prematurely.
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posted on
02/16/2014 11:46:37 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: shibumi
Is she mocking or praising Kanye West?
Poorly done humour, there.
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