Turns out that things can be funny.
Or things can be sad.
But logic, and, seemingly common sense, would dictate that they can't be both.
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(CNN) -- A 22-year-old woman was hospitalized after she fell down an elevator shaft at Fenway Park in Boston, authorities said.
The woman fell into the shaft landing on the roof of the elevator, the Boston Fire Department said.
Rescuers shut off power to the elevator to prevent movement, and used a small ladder to go to the roof through a hatch, it posted on Twitter.
The woman was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. Her name and condition are unknown.
The cause of the accident is unclear.
Assuming, at this writing, that the injuries weren't life threatening or fatal, there is a case to be made that this incident could be seen as funny.
And, of course, any time anyone is injured in any way, a reasonable alternative would be seeing it as sad.
But, unless Schrödinger was catching a ball game that day, it would be hard to see it as both.
Meanwhile...
Get a load of this randomly selected, cut and pasted, edited of junk and pics but nary a word changed chunk of insight, perspective and observation on the human condition popularly known as the "comments section"
(Note: the user names have also been included as they were posted on a public site and, therefore, considered public information)
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Elevator puns are bad on so many levels.
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I'm not even going to try to top that.
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From above: "The cause of the accident is unclear."
My money is on stupid.
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c'mon how people take that 1st step w/o even thinking about it. The elevator is suppose to be there
She will make some money by suing the owner. ..legit suit
Depends. If the elevator was out of order and she ignored (or failed to see) the sign, it's not really Fenway's fault.
If it's out of order, but you can still board it....easy lawsuit!
If they can sit on the toilet without looking..... Just say'n...
Probably looking at their phone rather than where they were walking.
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When in doubt, blame gravity.
I'm glad the situation was updated on twitter... very helpful right there...
I hope she's going to be okay.
She fell from the 4th floor to the roof of the stopped elevator on the 2nd floor. That's a total of about 12 feet. She might have bumps and bruises or possibly a broken bone at the most. Unless she landed directly on her head, in which case she'll be fine.
Using your math the ceiling height of each of those floors would be 5'4" - only short people would be able to attend the games. The average height of a residential ceiling is 8 feet plus the 8 or 10 inches between the floors - that's at least 17.5 feet. A commercial space might be closer to 20 feet.
Seriously? Your math skills are great, but your reading comprehension and use of logic leaves a lot to be desired.
She was standing on the 4th floor. She fell on top of an elevator car that was stopped on the 2nd floor. The distance from the floor where her feet were to where she suddenly stopped when she hit the elevator car is equal to the height of the 3rd floor, plus some structural framing.
Frigging math. You're probably wrong too. This is a stadium it's probably like 176 feet to the next floor. Maybe Walls of Jericho high. But then the elevator shafts are on the outside of the stands. They tend to be sloped at a 30 degree angle. That must be factored in too. Also this is Fenway Park. Built before current commercial code requirement. Frigging math, done me in again.
You're of the mind that the floors are six feet apart?
Ouchie Kenny973 • 3 hours ago
No more math from you. Stick to gramer and spilling
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Bottom of the 4th - top of the 2nd
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Probably fell face first (falling forward) that's still gotta hurt!
And probably sauced pretty good ( that would definitely help)
I'm thinking...gravity. Yeah. That's the cause.
Logical conclusion. However, I think that she was trying to go down on that shaft.
Maybe she met a guy and fell for him.
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Maybe she really wanted to push his buttons.
I was hoping it was Sarah Palin. Darn.
The "dialogue" goes on for what may fairly be described as an interminable time.
In fairness, there is, in this particular "excerpt", one commenter who offers a simple "I hope she's going to be okay".
Think of it as a tiny, shiny nugget discovered while panning in a large, powerful flowing stream of shit.
And even acknowledging that we all, in times of fear or anguish, sometimes resort to gallows humor, there are, at least for me, only two feelings that I find running concurrently after reading these "sharings".
The depth and texture of "stupid" at work here is, to the more satirical minded among us, in a word, funny.
The sheer number of people in this country, let alone the world, whose grasp of simple grammar, simple compassion, simple empathy, simple common courtesy, let alone any hint of an intelligence that would make Kris, Kim, Khloe or Kourtney look like a wisdom dispensing tribal council is, in a word, sad.
And this is just one comment section of one story on one news website.
The internet is flooded with comments like these every minute of every day.
You gotta admit that's a little funny.
Or maybe more than just a little sad.
But, obviously, not both.
No.....
Wait.....
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