Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness.
She said the manhole she fell in to was left open and unattended with no warning signs or orange cones. She said two workers with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection failed to secure the area as they prepared to flush the sewer.
“It was just really gross and it was shocking and scary,” she said. “Because of their careless mistake I got hurt.”
Longueira has deep cuts and bruises and said she now has nightmares about falling, but she also did admit she was texting at the time.
A woman has been found guilty of manslaughter after a shopper was killed following a row over queue jumping.
Antonette Richardson called boyfriend Tony Virasami to Sainsbury’s in Merton, south London, but he punched the wrong man, who suffered a fatal brain injury.
Richardson, of Sedgehill Road, Catford, had been accused of pushing in front of shopper Adam Prendergast, as she went to buy a packet of cigarettes.
She phoned Virasami who was waiting in a car nearby, and when he came into the store she pointed out Mr Prendergast.
However, Virasami mistook Mr Tripp for the person who shouted at his girlfriend, and punched him, the court heard. (Source: BBC)
This Belly Dancer is practicing her moves in her bedroom. She tries to lean back on a dresser while holding on to a scarf that is tied to one of the cabinets.
Hmmmp, I don’t think I would want to volunteer for those magic tricks. You won’t know if it’s going to be dangerous. They can make you feel relaxed and all but it does not fully eliminate the possibility of getting hurt as the following video illustrates.
Crocs, as trendy as they look, aren’t that safe. Remember the past couple of times where Singaporean’s little feets get stucked on the escalators? Little feet country – Japan – has their citizen’s Crocs caught in escalator. Whether it is due to imitation or not, it’s better to be safe and just not wear them on escalators.
(The Japanese flag.)
The Japanese government on Friday urged people to be careful while wearing the popular Crocs clogs or imitations on escalators after 40 people were said to have their shoes caught, with one little girl injured. A consumer safety group reported 40 incidents in which people, mostly children, had Crocs stuck on escalators from late August until early this month. One five-year-old girl broke her middle toe and three of her toenails were ripped off after her shoe was stuck on the moving stairs, said the group, the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation. Six other people were mildly injured including children as young as two, it said. The remaining 33 people reported that their shoes were damaged.
Crocs is a U.S. footwear brand that has found a fan base in Japan and other countries both among parents and children for its comfortable and flexible material that can easily grip onto surfaces.
The true story occured during 1987, an army officer-to-be, Lawrence Leow, was training in Brunei when he had a heat stroke. The heat stroke got him stucked on a wheelchair, breathing through a hole in his neck. Today, he receives S$500 (US$330) a month as a compensation.
(Uncle Sun: I want you for Singapore army and you can’t fucking choose.)
Leow served the nation during his mandatory two-year military national service just as I did. (I’m completing it in 26 days by the way.) According to blog The FunkeeBlog, a US citizen in Kansas collecting unemployment benefits would receive more than him for his sacrifice for his country as a soldier.
The recent case of the Taiwan aircraft accident would probably make people rethink about serving the nation. When I first entered BMT, we went on to swear to the officers that “we will always support and defend the Constitution. We will preserve and protect the honour and independence of our country with our lives.” We would scream “with our lives” as loud as we can to emphasize on the self-sacrificing behavior. When reciting the SAF pledge or creed or whatever, I had a sudden thought, “would I really exchange my life for this?”
I’ll leave it to you to think about it. I shan’t reveal my answer but it isn’t a hard guess I suppose.
