Author Topic: How fuckin bright was she if she was deaf (Read 4034 times)

tomduo · « **on:** Mar 15, 2006, 02:04:08 PM »

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CNN) -- Deaf beauty contest winner Tara McAvoy was walking along the railroad tracks from her Austin, Texas, home to her mother's workplace, text-messaging family and friends, when a train struck her, according to the Austin Police Department.

A Massachusetts-born Texan, who liked to quote "Don't mess with Texas," the 18-year-old was going to represent the Lone Star State at the Miss Deaf America Pageant in Palm Desert, California, this July.

It was one of many pageants McAvoy had entered, "both in the hearing community and in the deaf community," said Claire Bugen, superintendent of the Texas School for the Deaf, on Wednesday. McAvoy was a 2005 graduate of the school, where she played sports and acted in theater.

"She was a beautiful, bright, young deaf woman," said Bugen.

Not that fuckin bright if she was walking ON TRAIN TRACKS WHEN SHE COULDN'T HEAR THE TRAIN!

I am glad she's no longer in the genepool.

Max Con · « **Reply #1 on:** Mar 15, 2006, 02:10:16 PM »

Funnier;

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18437805-1248,00.html

B E C K · « **Reply #2 on:** Mar 15, 2006, 05:04:25 PM »

Tom, chell the "Slither" thread, you ninja.

tomduo · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 15, 2006, 05:41:25 PM »

Oh I know, however this article was so good, it deserved it's own thread. This is more to ask why a deaf person would be walking on train tracks.

B E C K · « **Reply #4 on:** Mar 15, 2006, 05:53:26 PM »

Those Australian kids are the ones that deserved their own thread. That train squished them so much, they needed DNA testing to identify the remains.

tomduo · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 15, 2006, 08:01:07 PM »

Disintegration!

B E C K · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 15, 2006, 09:36:38 PM »

Crikey!

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #7 on:** Mar 16, 2006, 11:36:41 AM »

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Not that fuckin bright if she was walking ON TRAIN TRACKS WHEN SHE COULDN'T HEAR THE TRAIN!

Who's not too bright?

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Deaf beauty contest winner Tara McAvoy was walking along the railroad tracks from her Austin, Texas, home to her mother's workplace, text-messaging family and friends, when a train struck her, according to the Austin Police Department.

Anyway, all semantics aside, she probably walked that way because it was open and not a lot of stuff going on that she'd have to hear to get away from like on a regular, road-side sidewalk. Well, aside from the occasional train. If you do the figures, it might be that the probability of being hit by a train is likely to be lower than a deaf person being hit by a car.

Still, I see it as a shame for anyone to go like that.

IDE · « **Reply #8 on:** Mar 16, 2006, 01:35:39 PM »

She was a beauty contest winner?

Why couldn't it have been a busted chick!?

Oh the humanity.