Remember – Your only purpose in this life may be to serve as a warning to others.

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Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed
AUSTIN (AP) — The reigning Miss Deaf Texas died Monday afternoon after being struck by a train, officials said.
Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, was walking near railroad tracks when she was struck by a Union Pacific train, authorities said. A witness told Austin television station KTBC the train sounded its horn right up until the accident occurred.
McAvoy, who had been deaf since birth, won the state title in June and represented the state “with dignity and pride,” state pageant director Laura Loeb-Hill told The Associated Press via e-mail Monday night.
McAvoy was to represent Texas at the Miss Deaf America pageant this summer, Loeb-Hill said.
McAvoy graduated last year from the Texas School for the Deaf, attended Austin Community College and then started at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in January, but had returned to Texas, Loeb-Hill said.

If you are stone-cold-can’t-hear-a-train-horn-behind-you-deaf, what the hell are you doing walking along a traintrack – at least without being paranoid enough to check over your shoulder every 5-10 seconds?

Second Verse, Same As The First!

Man injured in fall at DIA
By John C. Ensslin, Rocky Mountain News
March 13, 2006

A Massachusetts man was in critical condition Sunday after falling 20 feet off an escalator rail at Denver International Airport shortly after arriving from Boston, police said. The fall happened about midnight on the escalator that leads to the shuttle train platform beneath Concourse A, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. “He was trying to ride the rail down,” Jackson said. Instead, “he popped up and went over the edge.” The victim, who was accompanied by three other people, suffered a head injury that police described as life-threatening. Paramedics took the man to Denver Health Medical Center, where he was in critical condition, Jackson said. Police said the man is in his mid-20s. Authorities were withholding his name because his family had not been notified. Airport spokesman Steve Snyder said that the accident did not result from any malfunction of the escalator. Snyder said he could not recall any similar incidents at the airport. Police consider the incident accidental, Jackson said. 
No charges were expected. 
“I think it’s somewhat horseplay,” Jackson said.  “This is a very unusual situation,” he said. “…People make this trip every day, and no one suffers these kinds of injuries.

Okay, I take that escalator all the time. You would have to be a complete MORON to fall off of it.
See, there are two sides…
One side, if you fall off of it, the worst that’ll happen is you’ll maybe get stuck in the 2′ space between the glass partitions separating the UP escalator from the DOWN escalator. You could slide down the dividing partition and stand up at the bottom. I’ve wanted to actually do that more than once.
On the OTHER side, is the Humongous Fall Of Doom.
What a way to kick off your buddies’ ski vacations, huh! (Oh, no, not yours – you’ll be unconcious or dead for most of it! No skin off your back – it’s just your friend’s ski vacation that’s truly ruined. Selfish Punk.)

2 thoughts on “Remember – Your only purpose in this life may be to serve as a warning to others.”

  1. arashisan

    damn. I told her not to go out that day ! I told her time and time again and I even screamed it at her but she just looked at me like she never even heard me !! oh well. :sigh:

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