News items you really don't want to see

[weaktwos]

Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed

I think we need to encourage our deaf beauty queens not to promenade by railroad tracks.

I wonder what it sounds like when a room full of deaf beauty pageant contestants mourn the loss of one of their own?

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[myasma.livejournal.com]

There is a deaf student in my photography class, and he presented a picture yesterday of a dog sitting on the railroad tracks. He was explaining how he got the shot, and said that he had had to hurry, and keep looking behind him, because a train was coming.

"I can't hear trains"

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I wonder why she wasn't doing the same....so sad.

wonder what it sounds like ...

[sirndipiti.livejournal.com]

..I'm thinking that ASL would be helpful -- or they could just dance around and wave their arms -- damn I'm getting so irrevernt

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

I saw this last night on TiVoCommunity.com, in the Happy Hour forum, and the sad part is I first saw the headline on the main page, and it said something like "Miss Deaf Texas Hit..." and I mentally completed it with "...by a train." And was unsurprised to find I was correct.

Then the discussion quickly turned to physics as someone wondered why the train didn't stop before it hit her.

[clemidia.livejournal.com]

As much as you may not want to see this, imagine hearing it!

Seriously, how is it she didn't FEEL it? Deaf people not only develop senses to take over for the one they lack, but she undoubtedly could've felt the impending train, if not hear it. Arriving trains most certainly are felt, even by those of us not trained (heh) to have even stronger senses due to deafness.

I suspect suicide?

*silent applause for catching this one, Annie*

[cotharyus.livejournal.com]

That's wrong on so many levels. Yet...somehow...amusing.