Walking + Texting = Landing in the Sewer

You gotta wonder...

15 year old Alexa Longueira of Staten Island found out today that it's not a good idea to draft a text message while walking down Victory Blvd.

Longueira fell into an open manhole about the time DEP workers stepped a few feet away to grab an ice cream cone.  She scraped her arms and her back when she fell into the sewer, and managed to climb the 4 feet up and out without trouble.

When the DEP workers saw her climbing out of the manhole, they came running. The girl was checked out at a hospital and released.

As if walking along blind to the world isn't bad enough, her mother said she plans to sue the city - on the grounds of the "gross factor" with the blazing argument that her daughter's sneaker is still in the putrid hole.

Dumb and dumber...

Heat Advisory in Arkansas

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A HEAT
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY.

THE COMBINATION OF UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES AND HIGH
RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ALLOW FOR AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES OF
105 TO 110 DEGREES ON TUESDAY. THESE DANGEROUS HEAT INDEX READINGS
WILL LAST FOR SEVERAL HOURS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE
EVENING HOURS.

EVEN THOUGH TEMPERATURES WILL DROP OFF DURING THE EVENING...THERE
WILL BE LITTLE RELIEF...AS OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES RANGE FROM
75 TO 80 DEGREES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HEAT ADVISORY MEANS THAT A PERIOD OF HOT TEMPERATURES IS
EXPECTED. THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY
WILL COMBINE TO CREATE A SITUATION IN WHICH HEAT ILLNESSES ARE
POSSIBLE. DRINK PLENTY OF FLUIDS...STAY IN AN AIR-CONDITIONED
ROOM...STAY OUT OF THE SUN...AND CHECK UP ON RELATIVES AND
NEIGHBORS.

B. C.