How to give your guardian angel a nervous breakdown
Damn, but some people can be stupid:
A 29-year-old woman who was walking on railroad tracks while talking on her cell phone is recovering after being struck by a freight train. The conductor of the Union Pacific train told authorities that Melinda Champion was talking on her phone when the train hit her from behind on Wednesday.
The train was headed south near Anderson, a town in far north-central California. A police sergeant said the conductor applied the emergency brakes when he spotted the woman, who apparently did not hear the train’s whistle or feel the vibrations on the tracks. The train struck her at about 45 mph, bouncing her to the side of the tracks.
Police Sgt. Bob Curato told The Associated Press on Thursday that Champion was recovering at a local hospital.
Very, very stupid – and very, very lucky.
Still, I’d love to find out who she was talking to at the time. It’s extremely irritating to admit but I can’t even begin to guess.
Whatever it was it must have been pretty damn engrossing, if she didn’t hear the train whistle, the track’s vibrations and the thunderous noise of the moving train, that was desperately trying to brake in time.
You’d think nothing short of the announcement of the Second Coming would do – either that or the news that Hillary had caught Bill in bed with Obama.
Damn, but I really want to KNOW!
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