Multi-Tasking Mess: Texting Teen Falls into Sewer

We've all seen people texting while driving cars (which, in my humble opinion, should be illegal).  We've all seen people fall into manholes -- at least in cartoons or shows like Monty Python or Benny Hill.

Apparently, New York's Department of Environmental Protection had failed to post warnings and to secure the manhole area while preparing to flush the sewer (whatever that means).  A teenager engaged in text-messaging while walking on the sidewalk failed to notice the manhole and its removed cover.  The result: she fell into the manhole and spent some time in five-feet-deep raw sewage -- something I wouldn't wish on an enemy, let alone on an unfocused child.

The teenager, who talks kind of like some personal-injury lawyers I've known, stated:

"Regardless of whether I'm texting or not if there was a cone there I'm going to see a big orange cone,' she said. 'I walk that sidewalk every day, I don't expect a big hole there.'" (WCBSTV)

True, an orange cone would have provided visual contrast against the pale-gray sidewalk cement.

Then again, wouldn't the black-ish manhole have provided solid visual contrast against pale-gray cement?

I suspect that this case will be settled out of court.  Memeorandum has commentary.

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Good to know and well posted....
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