Teen saves iPod, gets hit by truck
One should always admire those with a hearty sense of priorities.
So I know you will all feel a tinge of soulful embrace towards a 16-year-old Tampa girl who was faced with a very difficult decision.
She was reportedly walking across the road and, calamity, dropped her iPod, according to an Associated Press story on WESH.com
Having reached the other side, she had but a moment to consider her next move. Should she let the downloaded Miley, Kylie, and for all I know, Pete Wylie get crushed beneath the wheels of a pickup truck?
Or should she herself risk getting crushed by a pickup truck in order to save her irreplaceable little white machine?
This was a no-brainer.
The unnamed 16-year-old is recovering from what may or may not be a broken leg, the story said.
News of the condition of the iPod has not been released. But one can only hope that its remarkable innards have not been affected by this traumatic experience.
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I am really glad someone asked that. Because that bottom photo got taken in a hurry as they needed something against a plain background. As I wasn't anywhere near a camera, I asked my uncle Michael to step in. No one knows that. Because no one has ever bothered to ask. Until now.
Thank you for asking. It's a relief to get that off my chest.
Chris
:-D
WARNING: PLEASE PICK UP IPOD WHEN IN COLLISION COURSE WITH A TRUCK. OR ELSE.
200 dollar iPod for a 5000 dollar prosthetic leg.
Today, though? Now that I have a job that brings enough money to buy an iPod? I definitely wouldn't do it. If it were my laptop, yeah, but for an iPod? No way. I'd miss too much work having a broken leg and not get paid.
There use to be safety commercials for kids not to run out into the street to chase after a ball when playing in the yard etc. I guess now a new after school special will be made to say don't run into the street to pickup your drpped ipod. If the teen was active when she was younger she would probably have had parents and teachers telling her not to run out into the street to get a ball. the same goes for an Ipod, wallet etc.
I would've done the same thing if I were in her place. Being 22 now, I have no need to. I have a job that pays enough money for me to replace my iPod if such a thing happens, and I'd miss out on too much work if my leg were broken, and thus I wouldn't get paid. If it were my laptop, however, I'd totally risk life and limb. I don't make enough money to easily replace it, and my dad wouldn't buy me a new one.
Actually, there is. Unfortunately she had an iPod Nano.
Electronics are replaceable people are not we only get one life not 3.
Trip to the Emergency Room - $12,000
Watching the agument for Natural Selection continue to roll on - $PRICELESS
For everything else there's........common sense!
- by bololo June 9, 2009 6:20 AM PDT
- Well nothing in this world is worth dying for especially electronics. you have to grow some sense on this mind of yours you know that once you replace a leg, arm, or anything in your body it will never be the same as before never ever ever no matter how excellent the work would be still not worth it plus lookahead electronics are made everyday i mean there is new stuff everyday of your life so even if you lose your ipod you can still get another one some days a better one. So protect your life that is off limit ok.
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