From the department of "You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried" comes this gem of a story...
Young girl is walking down the street, texting on a friend's phone, not looking at the ground in front of her, falls into an uncovered manhole. (In case you fear broken bones and such, I'll put your mind at rest and let you know she's fine save a few scratches.)
Now, we are talking a TEENAGER here. Remember being one of those? If you were like me, I was embarrassed at the slightest hint of being a dufus. Tripping over a curb might send me under the covers for the evening. But, no, not this girl.
Somehow, the NATIONAL NEWS picks up on this story and she and her Mother are sitting across from two TV anchors with very serious, worried looks on their faces, trying to uncover the MAN EATING HOLES IN THE GROUND conspiracy that appears to have started on plant Earth. After giving sweetie pie and her Mom enough leverage to pick up a hundred pound boulder, they ask the inevitable: "Are you going to press charges/sue?"*
As I am watching this trainwreck of over-the-top-reporting-involving-a-non-incident, I am glad to hear Mom say she isn't planning to press charges, "at this time". To which teenage daughter, with sage wisdom, no doubt passed on to her from the lawyer-in-the-box they consulted says, "I just don't want this to happen to anybody else."
To hear Baby Jessica utter that comment would make me cry. But this non-observant young lady is awfully lucky she didn't end up with more than a bruised back and scratched arm.
Strangely, though, I am guessing we'll be hearing Chapter 2 of this story, aptly titled "The Lawsuit", for which all of us taxpayers will have to pitch in our few cents to pay off the "emotional damages" inflicted on this child.
People, please do us all a favor and don't text and walk/drive/eat unless you have a seeing eye dog with you who can steer you around the scary open manhole covers.
*One of the things I'd change in this world is our propensity to sue at the drop of a hat (or teenager--padumdum.)
Young girl is walking down the street, texting on a friend's phone, not looking at the ground in front of her, falls into an uncovered manhole. (In case you fear broken bones and such, I'll put your mind at rest and let you know she's fine save a few scratches.)
Now, we are talking a TEENAGER here. Remember being one of those? If you were like me, I was embarrassed at the slightest hint of being a dufus. Tripping over a curb might send me under the covers for the evening. But, no, not this girl.
Somehow, the NATIONAL NEWS picks up on this story and she and her Mother are sitting across from two TV anchors with very serious, worried looks on their faces, trying to uncover the MAN EATING HOLES IN THE GROUND conspiracy that appears to have started on plant Earth. After giving sweetie pie and her Mom enough leverage to pick up a hundred pound boulder, they ask the inevitable: "Are you going to press charges/sue?"*
As I am watching this trainwreck of over-the-top-reporting-involving-a-non-incident, I am glad to hear Mom say she isn't planning to press charges, "at this time". To which teenage daughter, with sage wisdom, no doubt passed on to her from the lawyer-in-the-box they consulted says, "I just don't want this to happen to anybody else."
To hear Baby Jessica utter that comment would make me cry. But this non-observant young lady is awfully lucky she didn't end up with more than a bruised back and scratched arm.
Strangely, though, I am guessing we'll be hearing Chapter 2 of this story, aptly titled "The Lawsuit", for which all of us taxpayers will have to pitch in our few cents to pay off the "emotional damages" inflicted on this child.
People, please do us all a favor and don't text and walk/drive/eat unless you have a seeing eye dog with you who can steer you around the scary open manhole covers.
*One of the things I'd change in this world is our propensity to sue at the drop of a hat (or teenager--padumdum.)
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