Warning! Common sense required!
around lunchtime on Wednesday, the 17th of November 2004 by Capt Jake Fortune
Caution: Do Not Walk on Tracks
Patricia M. Frankhouser filed suit on Nov. 4 seeking damages in excess of $30,000 from Norfolk Southern Corp. (search), according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Last January, Frankhouser was hit by a train as she walked along railroad tracks in her hometown of Jeannette, Pa., a southeastern suburb of Pittsburgh.
Amazingly, she came away from the encounter with only a broken finger, some cuts and, according to the lawsuit, “pain.”
Apparently, however, the incident was traumatic enough for her to hire a lawyer.
“Defendant’s failure to warn plaintiff of the potential dangers negligently provided plaintiff with the belief she was safe in walking near the train tracks,” Frankhouser’s suit asserts.
It goes on to state that Norfolk Southern, based in Norfolk, Va., should have posted signs warning passersby “of the dangers of walking near train tracks and that the tracks were actively in use.”
Nowhere in the filing does it say whether Frankhouser heard the train coming, why she failed to get out of the way or even whether she was walking alongside or in between the rails.
Her attorney did not return the Tribune-Review’s call.
Also named in the suit are the woman’s parents, for failure to contribute genetic material responsible for intelligence, common sense, and probably good looks too…
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November 17th, 2004 at 6:50 pm
oh my gosh.. now see part of the problem seem to be the dumber they are the harder it is to kill them, is this the case?? it seems to be to me.. I would like to add to that case, the failure of the train conductor of not putting the train in reverse when he/she saw the person was not severed in two!!
How the heck, what the, oh my gosh… are my responses here! It frightens me that people like this are allowed to live!!
November 18th, 2004 at 11:49 am
Thanks for pointing this story out! Ignorant woman ought to be thanking God that she wasn’t killed or maimed.