The Morning Report (9-17-05)
The Morning Report
9-17-05
By:
The Rose Nesbitt Corporation
Note Before we Start:It seems that this issue of The Morning report will be as dreary as it could possibly be without being out-and-out depressing. Though there will be spots of humor and light it seems that Hurricane Katrina has set the tone for this month. Thank you.
Blain the Train Under Investigation
Setting the key for this edition to the Morning Report to a low, mournful key we start off with something that happened recently, yesterday, actually.
In Chicago yesterday a computerized, double-decker metra-train traveling on Chicago’s Southside was derailed, killing two people and injuring over 80.
The train was on its way from Joliet to Chicago (God, I’m getting tired of typing that word) when it jumped from the tracks onto a hilly embankment five miles south of downtown, carrying over 180 passengers and 4 crewmembers onboard.
Julie Arredondo was sitting on the upper deck of the train when the accident happened.
"Everyone was flying everywhere," she said.
Both of the deceased were women, one of them was 22 and died on the train and the other was 30 and was later proclaimed dead in the hospital.
For the others 17 of the 80+ injured were put under serious or critical condition and were treated in the red medical tents set up by the emergency vehicle along the tracks.
What makes this accident rather odd is that the train tracks and the train were both inspected on Thursday or Friday (for some reason no one can remember the exact day that they were inspected… no comment).
Another fact that makes this train incident a bit uncanny is that two years ago an eerily similar accident happened within the same block of Saturday’s derailment.
Of course the area, train and conductor are all under investigation. Needless to say one of the cars was completely F.U.B.A.R. but most of the other cars just felt like jumping of the track to have a bit of a break.
While this is quite sad we can be happy for one thing: the passengers did not have to tell riddles to get from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.
Why Church is Dangerous
Yes, it is a strange title but it ties into this story that is a bit of a morale booster.
In the wake of Katrina many people were caught in their homes and fled to the attic or the roof, or they were swept away and drowned by the rising floodwaters.
Not so for Gerald Martin, 76, New Orleans.
Mr. Martin’s family had already vacated the premises but he stayed for church. That’s right; there is proof that Christians are lunatics.
After coming home from Church, Mr. Martin laid down on the sofa and took a nap, when he woke his house was starting flooding, grabbing a bit of water (we’re unsure at how much he snagged before bolting) he dashed up the stairs to the attic where he sipped at his dwindling water supply for two weeks while foul floodwater rose and rose to the height of his ceiling in the room where he had been napping only hours before.
After the storm, still in his attic and the house still chiefly flooded, temperatures rose to a sweltering 90 degrees on a regular basis and, if not for a fallen tree that was pushed over the window (talk about irony) it would have been fatal.
Without food, human company and a dwindling water suplly Gerald Martin waited… and waited… and waited… until he heard the motor of a boat idling by his house on Painters St. and started calling out. By this time he was able to have gone down to the kitchen but the water was foul and the food rotted.
So he yelled and called the firefighters broke down his door with a sledge hammer. Understandably he was in good spirits when they found him, partially naked –to keep cool he says- in the kitchen.
And though he was weak, thirsty and tired –not to mention hungry- he was able to walk from the kitchen to the boat with little assistantce and when he was being packed in the chopper he turned to the two firefighters that had saved him, J.D. Madden and Eric Mijangos, and asked, “Can we stop at Taco Bell on the way to the hospital?”
Mr. Martin was the first person they FEMA rescue squad had found in days, and his high spirits gave Madden and Mijangos as well as the rest of the team a much needed morale boost.
A tale worthy of Stephen King.
Hitman Doesn’t Carry out Job! Contractor Furious!
Ending this addition on a short, sweet note we have the odd news.
In Tokyo on Friday a 32 year old Japanese woman called the police because a hitman she had hired wasn’t making good on his part of the deal… how strange.
This woman allegedly paid the Hitman or ‘private detective’ 1 million yen in cash to murder her lovers wife and he said he could do that by… ‘could carry out the job by chasing the victim on a motorcycle and spraying her with a biological agent in a tunnel’… Yeah… I do that too on the weekends.
Both the detective and the woman were arrested on attempted murder and the intended target was left, undoubtedly a little shaken and probably very angry, unharmed.
Citations:
Yahoo.com
9-17-05
By:
The Rose Nesbitt Corporation
Note Before we Start:It seems that this issue of The Morning report will be as dreary as it could possibly be without being out-and-out depressing. Though there will be spots of humor and light it seems that Hurricane Katrina has set the tone for this month. Thank you.
Blain the Train Under Investigation
Setting the key for this edition to the Morning Report to a low, mournful key we start off with something that happened recently, yesterday, actually.
In Chicago yesterday a computerized, double-decker metra-train traveling on Chicago’s Southside was derailed, killing two people and injuring over 80.
The train was on its way from Joliet to Chicago (God, I’m getting tired of typing that word) when it jumped from the tracks onto a hilly embankment five miles south of downtown, carrying over 180 passengers and 4 crewmembers onboard.
Julie Arredondo was sitting on the upper deck of the train when the accident happened.
"Everyone was flying everywhere," she said.
Both of the deceased were women, one of them was 22 and died on the train and the other was 30 and was later proclaimed dead in the hospital.
For the others 17 of the 80+ injured were put under serious or critical condition and were treated in the red medical tents set up by the emergency vehicle along the tracks.
What makes this accident rather odd is that the train tracks and the train were both inspected on Thursday or Friday (for some reason no one can remember the exact day that they were inspected… no comment).
Another fact that makes this train incident a bit uncanny is that two years ago an eerily similar accident happened within the same block of Saturday’s derailment.
Of course the area, train and conductor are all under investigation. Needless to say one of the cars was completely F.U.B.A.R. but most of the other cars just felt like jumping of the track to have a bit of a break.
While this is quite sad we can be happy for one thing: the passengers did not have to tell riddles to get from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.
Why Church is Dangerous
Yes, it is a strange title but it ties into this story that is a bit of a morale booster.
In the wake of Katrina many people were caught in their homes and fled to the attic or the roof, or they were swept away and drowned by the rising floodwaters.
Not so for Gerald Martin, 76, New Orleans.
Mr. Martin’s family had already vacated the premises but he stayed for church. That’s right; there is proof that Christians are lunatics.
After coming home from Church, Mr. Martin laid down on the sofa and took a nap, when he woke his house was starting flooding, grabbing a bit of water (we’re unsure at how much he snagged before bolting) he dashed up the stairs to the attic where he sipped at his dwindling water supply for two weeks while foul floodwater rose and rose to the height of his ceiling in the room where he had been napping only hours before.
After the storm, still in his attic and the house still chiefly flooded, temperatures rose to a sweltering 90 degrees on a regular basis and, if not for a fallen tree that was pushed over the window (talk about irony) it would have been fatal.
Without food, human company and a dwindling water suplly Gerald Martin waited… and waited… and waited… until he heard the motor of a boat idling by his house on Painters St. and started calling out. By this time he was able to have gone down to the kitchen but the water was foul and the food rotted.
So he yelled and called the firefighters broke down his door with a sledge hammer. Understandably he was in good spirits when they found him, partially naked –to keep cool he says- in the kitchen.
And though he was weak, thirsty and tired –not to mention hungry- he was able to walk from the kitchen to the boat with little assistantce and when he was being packed in the chopper he turned to the two firefighters that had saved him, J.D. Madden and Eric Mijangos, and asked, “Can we stop at Taco Bell on the way to the hospital?”
Mr. Martin was the first person they FEMA rescue squad had found in days, and his high spirits gave Madden and Mijangos as well as the rest of the team a much needed morale boost.
A tale worthy of Stephen King.
Hitman Doesn’t Carry out Job! Contractor Furious!
Ending this addition on a short, sweet note we have the odd news.
In Tokyo on Friday a 32 year old Japanese woman called the police because a hitman she had hired wasn’t making good on his part of the deal… how strange.
This woman allegedly paid the Hitman or ‘private detective’ 1 million yen in cash to murder her lovers wife and he said he could do that by… ‘could carry out the job by chasing the victim on a motorcycle and spraying her with a biological agent in a tunnel’… Yeah… I do that too on the weekends.
Both the detective and the woman were arrested on attempted murder and the intended target was left, undoubtedly a little shaken and probably very angry, unharmed.
Citations:
Yahoo.com
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