Video: S.I. Teen Discusses Fall Down Manhole While Texting

Continuing the "OMG, SRSLY" story of the Staten Island teen who fell into an open manhole while text messaging, 15-year-old Alexa Longueira has been speaking with the media about her ordeal. Apparently DEP workers left the the open manhole to retrieve some orange cones—and it took a little too long for them to return. She told WCBS 2, "It was just really gross and it was shocking and scary. Because of their careless mistake I got hurt... Regardless of whether I'm texting or not if there was a cone there I'm gong to see a big orange cone. I walk that sidewalk every day, I don't expect a big hole there." So, if there was a big orange, she TOTALLY would have seen it while texting, instead of the manhole, right?

Her mother added, "It could have been an elderly person, a mother pushing a stroller. It could have been anyone," and the family may sue. The mother and daughter also spoke to My Fox NY—Alexa said, "I thought it was something out of a movie, where something was gonna take me under."

The DEP it "is conducting a full investigation of what happened during a manhole incident on Victory Boulevard where workers were flushing a high-pressure sewer on Wednesday evening. We regret that this happened and wish the young woman a speedy recovery."

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By Jen Chung in News on July 11, 2009 4:15 PM

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robingee

Can't wait till she gets her license!

sexisicilian

yeah the same bullshit when people text & talk while driving...it is NEVER their fault. Give me a break, people pay attention to where the FUCK you are going !!

farleft

Sexting usually results in entering manholes.

Over the River

No shortage of people who think the problem isn't the person in the mirror.

GREGORYABUTLER

She's pretty hot for a 15 year old!

JLRodP

What surprises me is that she says she will never step on a manhole ever again, but fails to mention that she will never text and walk at the same time... definitely a lost case.

How can someone have such a narrow field of vision? Even in the dark I manage to dodge little pieces of Chihuahua shit.

Dwayne Hoover

I like her killer accent.

citizenerased

I like her

NapoleonComplex

This is practically poetic. Those who fell through the genetic manhole into the sewer of evolution, falling through an actual manhole into a sewer.

nicspa

seems like shes never heard of this:

http://lifehacker.com/5256519/email-n-walk-lets-you-multitask-without-getting-hit-by-a-car?skyline=true&s=i

Scooter Libbby

"Her family is thinking about filing a lawsuit"!

The real problem is that this family was allowed to procreate long before it had the ability to think!

Spirit of 76

Interesting. I thought that kind of exaggerated New Yawk accent only existed in bad movies.

bachdiep85

Ok... This story has dragged on for way too long. This girl needs to shut her traps and grow up! Suing the city when it is already in so much debt is selfish!

tangent

The real tragedy of this is that there is no video to put up on Failblog. :(

amethystdeceiver

15, huh?

amethystdeceiver

15, huh?

breaknight

To quote one of the great social critics of our time: "haHA!"

theevilone

So let me get this straight. She was walking with a friend on that sidewalk. The open manhole takes up the entire width of that sidewalk according to that video. She falls in and her non-texting friend does not, but the fact that this idiot wasn't looking where she was going has NOTHING to do with it?

Please God, let me have jury duty when this case makes it to trial...

inoyourider

Sue the city?

"Its so terrible but pay me some money and everything will be better"

Fah-q.

freddynyc

She is essentially announcing to the world what an imbecile she is - I say she gets special mention at the Darwinism awards...

sj

After watching the video, my thoughts are that she's a real winner and will accomplish great things in her life.

Snoopy

"The text message was very important so I couldn't stop my feet while walking to the text center."

As someone said previously, hopefully the chemicals in the manhole will cause her to be sterile.

Trilby16

The hypothetical "elderly person" or "mother with a stroller" would probably not have been texting while walking, a contributing factor to this accident.

S.D.

"Because of their careless mistake"?

Imagine if she was text messaging into the Highway! It would OBVIOUSLY be all their fault!

Sadly, some lawyer will likely screw the city for an equally foolish amount of money...

NannyState

Remember that natural selection favors lawyers so regardless of whether this idiotic chick is rendered sterile or not, a special Darwin Award awaits her attorney if he fails to capitalize on this spectacle.

Spirit of 76

Natural selection does not favor lawyers. They're just nearly impossible to kill as a species, like cockroaches.

jurk182

Darwin Award unfortunately avoided.

longacre

You don't have to die to win a Darwin, you just have to remove yourself from the gene pool. If the sewage she landed in somehow prevents her from reproducing, she's still in the running.