{"id":874,"date":"2010-01-24T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=874"},"modified":"2010-01-24T23:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T05:44:34","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-24-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 24, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Fiery Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A woman out for jog while listening to her iPod had her legs severed by a freight train because she may not have heard it coming. Cheryl Ann Risse, 32, was recovering at a hospital Friday, July 6, 2007. Authorities did not know how she ended up in the path of the train Thursday morning, but rescue workers speculated she did not hear the locomotive coming because she was listening to her iPod. Risse often jogged across the tracks on her way to a nearby park. The train engineer didn’t know he had struck Risse until he returned along the same tracks minutes later. A passing sheriff’s deputy noticed her waving her arms. “My feet are on fire,” she told Tony Long, a battalion chief for Pompano Beach Fire-Rescue, who responded to the scene. “Do you think you can put the fire out? They’re really hurting.” The woman was expected to survive.<\/p>\n

Culled from: WFTV.Com
\nGenerously submitted by: Dark Paradox<\/p>\n

Of course, anyone who jogs on railroad tracks with headphones on is an automatic Darwin Award Winner. And that’s a fire that no amount of water will extinguish! But on the bright side – she doesn’t need to get up early to go jogging anymore. That must be a relief!<\/p>\n

Oh, and speaking of people falling in front of public transit, video of a man falling under a Chicago Transit Authority bus was released the other day. (The family is suing the CTA for negligence in running him over.) Take a look and tell me – is the CTA to blame here, or the man himself?<\/p>\n

Video Shows Man Struck, Killed by CTA Bus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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