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Girl Falls Off Bridge While Retrieving Lost Cell Phone

by Tim Stevens on April 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM

Girl Falls Off Bridge, Injures Legs Attempting to Retreive Lost Cell PhoneIt's been awhile, but the killer cell phones have returned. Back in 2007, we had a rash of reports of people being killed while trying to retrieve lost cell phones, including not one but two sad cases of drownings. Now we have another, similar case. In this case, however, the victim survived -- though she is now suffering from two injured legs.

According to authorities in North Sioux City, SD, 17-year-old Eva Barron was walking across a railroad trestle with friends last week when one of their cell phones fell into a puddle. Barron attempted to shimmy down to pick it up, using an electrical cord as a safety line. Unfortunately, the cord broke, leaving her to drop about 15 feet.

Luckily, there were no trains coming at the time, lest she could have wound up like another unfortunate victim, who wasn't so lucky. [From: WCFCourier.com]

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