I am sitting about 100m from the spot where this happened, which is behind a small upscale mall called the “MailBox”.
That whole area is something of a deathtrap for the unwary. Smooth stone steps that become glissades of bone-breaking horror in the wet, and so forth.
She was on a comparatively safe bit, where a misstep merely drops you into 12ft-deep canal water.
Ah Birmingham! Harsh school of life and winnower of the gene-pool! But I’m glad she was OK.
Birmingham......only the strong survive there. Oftentimes, a Honey Badger will drop out of a eucalyptus tree and grab an unwary pedestrian. This woman was lucky a Honey Badger didn’t grab her while she was texting and throw her into a garbage can to be consumed at leisure. Great Uncle Reginald bagged three Honey Badgers in one day in Birmingham. The blighters were playing football and came after him when they missed a penalty kick.