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A few articles
May. 18th, 2010 12:11 pm
One about teenaged otaku in Queens.
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One about people who jump onto the tracks to get stuff they've dropped. Apparently 90 people a year are struck by subways. I cannot even fathom that. NINETY PEOPLE? I would've thought half that, and that would've been generous!
It's stupid, of course. I have very little sympathy for them once they're down there. Whatever it is, it can be replaced. You can get another phone. You can get another ipod. You can get another bag filled with, as one person died trying to retrieve, stinky gym clothes and deodorant, and let me say that's the stupidest one yet. Unless it is your child down there, or your spouse (and while you CAN get another of either of those, I can appreciate that this isn't a comforting thought), it isn't worth your life. And everybody who does this thinks they're so clever and so fast that they can get back and nothing will happen, but this isn't a good risk. Some risks are good. And some are just stupid. Don't do it.
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One about people who jump onto the tracks to get stuff they've dropped. Apparently 90 people a year are struck by subways. I cannot even fathom that. NINETY PEOPLE? I would've thought half that, and that would've been generous!
It's stupid, of course. I have very little sympathy for them once they're down there. Whatever it is, it can be replaced. You can get another phone. You can get another ipod. You can get another bag filled with, as one person died trying to retrieve, stinky gym clothes and deodorant, and let me say that's the stupidest one yet. Unless it is your child down there, or your spouse (and while you CAN get another of either of those, I can appreciate that this isn't a comforting thought), it isn't worth your life. And everybody who does this thinks they're so clever and so fast that they can get back and nothing will happen, but this isn't a good risk. Some risks are good. And some are just stupid. Don't do it.
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