Posted on 09/01/2012 12:27:42 AM PDT by South40
FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Police say a 16-year-old New Jersey boy was killed after he put his head out of an emergency hatch of a double-decker bus and his head hit the underside of an Interstate 95 overpass.
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This April, a kid walked out the rear hatch of a moving school bus while over a bridge in Jacksonville, FL—fatally.
That is what I was thinking.
Some slip and fall, ambulance chasing lawyer will talk this kid’s parents in to suing the bus company and the bus manufacturer .
Instead of placing the blame where it belongs; on the teen or themselves for not teaching their son better they will turn their anger towards others in the mistaken belief that “they should be more responsible” or “they should have know something like this would happen”.
Funny how a sign that says “Emergency Use Only” doesn’t apply to a foolish teen and somehow a greedy opportunistic lawyer will find some reason that a bus manufacturer should have found a better way to dissuade such a teen from sticking his head out of an Emergency Exit or designed an emergency exit that could not be opened during non-emergencies but could be relied upon to be easily opened in a real emergency.
The Tort lawyers will destroy this country with the willing participation of the Democrat Party.
south40
ok I re-read, so the young man, was from NJ, musta went into city to catch party bus with others to come back to Garfield NJ. How things would have been different had he gone from his nj home to the party and skipped the “party bus”. Life is not just a party, but we tend to want to forget or ignore that and sometimes make life altering choices, compounded by not always following rules or guidelines when in vehicles with friends. very sad. my heart is with the family and friends.
not sure what happened to my last reply. I reread and my guess is the NJ teen went into city to then take the party bus with friends back to Garfield. Very sad he did not just head from his home to party location. made sadder that he did not follow safety rules of riding on the bus. my prayers and thoughts to his family and friends.
I'm now an old man and I've done a lot more stupid things by mistake in the past 20 years than I did in my first 20 on purpose.
ok, so I don’t understand why my response doesn’t show.
South40, I reread and NJ teen must of went to NYC to join bus group back to NJ. Very sad he risked his life by sticking head out the hatch, but as many on thread state, many of us have mave unsmart choices at times, especially when young.
hope this post makes it through.
Used to do snake catching and for poisonous ones at that too. We’d take sticks and shove them down the holes to get them to come out then use a Y rod to clamp their heads then throw them into a pillow sack. Never once did we even consider what would happen if we got bit. Teens do the stupidest things...: )
64 now.
Teens have this immortality complex which causes them to do some really..stupid.. things.
“I never jumped from a train but I touched the third rail.”
I grew up in Brooklyn. We used to take the train to school. On the first day of 7th grade, two 9th graders dared my friend to ride in between the cars for a stop. To be part of the group he agreed.
The train hit the curve and my friend slipped and fell between the cars. What didn’t tear him to shreds electrocuted him. Was a very sad day.
is it usual for posts to take 2 hours to show up after you submit?
What could go wrong?
exactly
I enjoyed the comments on the thread about the dumb things people did as teenagers. Of course, the ones who ended up on the wrong side of the laws of physics aren’t able to write about it today ...
“I enjoyed the comments on the thread about the dumb things people did as teenagers. Of course, the ones who ended up on the wrong side of the laws of physics aren’t able to write about it today.”
It wasn’t just teenager years for me...although it’s less frequent now. A while ago I put a list together of things that I did that could have easily been life-changing events (jail, death, disabling injury, financial ruin, etc.). It came out to something like 50+ items. I may share it with my kids as they get a bit older, but I don’t to give them any ideas now.
if the kids are that stupid, keep them at home
Sometimes you don’t realize how stupid they are until it’s too late.
Good idea.
If you were to add in all the dumb things you did while driving that nevertheless did not cause an accident, you would probably be up in the many thousands. (I know I would be.)
Though both of us have forgotten most of these.
3 seconds later a drunk sideswiped us and got himself killed. My family wasn't hurt but shaken seeing the drunk with his head smashed through his windshield. After that I wouldn't so much as put a finger out the window.
Yep - my best buddy said he kept a sympathy card on hand to give to my Mom because he knew I wasn't going to get out of my teens alive.
In days of old I had notions of being a stuntman. A friend had a '73 Camaro. I decided to show him what a good stuntman I could be. We agreed that I would stand in the street; he'd drive up at about 20 mph. and I would roll off the hood as if I'd been hit. I worked too well. I rolled up the hood and put my knee through his windshield.
I didn't get hurt but he window cost me money. We agreed to pay half each because he agreed to it.
I did the same thing in Calumet Park one night. We were drinking (did I mention booze in the previous action?) and I stood with a friend in the middle of the road pretending to argue. As a car drove by he was to push me in front of it. It worked great. I rolled off the hood and landed in the grass. I lay there pretending I was out. The guy got out of his car and was freaking out asking, "Are you all right?"
I couldn't help myself I started laughing. I thought the guy was going to kill me.
Not good ideas but I DO remember them with some fondness.
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