Construction Barricades Are Your Friends

watchyourstep.jpgA Queens man died yesterday from head injuries sustained after he fell into a fifteen-foot-deep hole Con Ed workers had dug to place an underground transformer. Darryl Kahn, a 64-year-old retired pharmacist from Forrest Hills, was returning from an OTB betting parlor in broad daylight Friday when he fell.

Exactly how he fell into the hole was unclear. Con Ed workers told police they had warned Kahn to stay away from the clearly marked and barricaded construction zone but he didn't listen.

"We don't know why this pedestrian squeezed into the area and how he fell . . . but he was in an area he shouldn't have been," said Con Ed spokesman Joe Petta.


Police are speculating that Kahn may have been drunk at the time, but his family insists the man did not drink. They are considering a lawsuit.

(Image from CAUTION WATCH YOUR STEP, by Triborough at flickr)

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Yeah, a man who goes to OTB but does not get drunk does not exist.

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haha yeah. its like, ok family. motherfucker stumbles out of an OTB in the middle of the day and decides to not only squeeze past caution signs, but then walk into a 15 foot hole.

if he wasn't drunk then he was a fucking moron, either way, ConEd doesn't owe the family anything.

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