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(Chicago Sun-Times) Dumbass Excuse me, miss. Get off your cell phone. Your car is on fire   (suntimes.com) divider line 58
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staplermofo [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 08:06:41 AM  
I've worked at Roosevelt University. I believe this.

 
BigDumbGuy 2007-12-16 08:10:47 AM  
No hero tag? At least her car broke down in a nice part of west side... I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to help out a young woman.

 
staplermofo [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 08:19:48 AM  
She looked up at me, and before she could lock the door, I grabbed her."

Yes, that sounds like the West Side.

 
ceruleanblu 2007-12-16 09:31:23 AM  
Perfectly good Darwin award shot to hell.

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 11:14:35 AM  
i210.photobucket.com

It's a start.

 
fernanernie 2007-12-16 11:20:17 AM  
Proving that because you are in college doesn't mean you are educated.

 
Tourney3p0 2007-12-16 11:21:27 AM  
Honda. Awesome for ten years, and then they burn to the ground and make you flunk Physics.

 
petfisheric 2007-12-16 11:21:44 AM  
I guess she would have failed the thermodynamics section of her Physics exam.....

 
Piss Up A Rope 2007-12-16 11:24:08 AM  
BigDumbGuy: No hero tag? At least her car broke down in a nice part of west side... I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to help out a young woman.

HELL NO.

this guy is denying darwin his due, therefore he gets the img1.fark.com tag because there's no misplaced sense of human kindness tag yet.

 
Jormungandr 2007-12-16 11:24:15 AM  
Personally I would've been tempted to video tape her as she suddenly realized that her car is on fire. Might've sold well, especially if she did not realize until too late.

Nah, I would've helped too. Random unknown strangers possible saved me, my kids and my wife a year back by banging on our front window and alerting us to the neighbour's house burning down.
My first thought was "farking crazy people get off my lawn!"

/not old
//still don't like people on my lawn

 
bitbear 2007-12-16 11:25:06 AM  
Darwin throws his hands in the air and stomps off muttering under his breath, "If evolution is real, then why aren't we seeing it during our lifetimes, they say? If you'd stop interfering with everything I do, you would!"

 
skinink 2007-12-16 11:26:29 AM  

"Jani, meanwhile, was talking on her cell phone, concerned only with the fact that she was late for her physics final.

"And after he pulled her out, she still didn't grasp the severity of the situation.


"She tried to go back and grab her books," said Duplessis. "I had to go back and grab her again. She was like in a state of shock."


She was thinking only of her test, Jani said."


And from the looks of it, she really wanted to fail. On the other hand, all I need to lure college girls to my house are their textbooks. What the hell am I gonna do with all these roofies now?


 
ceruleanblu 2007-12-16 11:29:48 AM  
img140.imageshack.us

 
MeanJean 2007-12-16 11:31:58 AM  
i165.photobucket.com

"Damn. Missed."

 
dcigary [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 11:32:00 AM  
Woah.

My first read of that was "Your cat is on fire".

It woulda been a much better article that way, IMHO...

 
drjekel_mrhyde 2007-12-16 11:32:47 AM  
Sounds like my dip-shyt girlfriend but instead of talking on the phone she would be texting

 
MycroftHolmes 2007-12-16 11:33:43 AM  
I am curious: have all these people who are claiming Darwin developed the ability to see around corners so they can see under their cars? Or do they think that car fires announce themselves with loud whooshing noises like in the movies?

 
MeanJean 2007-12-16 11:37:19 AM  
MycroftHolmes
I am curious: have all these people who are claiming Darwin developed the ability to see around corners so they can see under their cars? Or do they think that car fires announce themselves with loud whooshing noises like in the movies?

It was under the car? Well that makes more sense. I should read these articles more carefully.

Of course, if a complete stranger yanked me out of my car, my first instinct would be to scream and hit him, not turn around and try to grab my books like she did.

 
LukeA 2007-12-16 11:41:33 AM  
The room is on fire as she's fixing her hair
You sound so angry
just calm down, you found me

 
Biological Ali 2007-12-16 11:43:34 AM  
Excuse me, miss. Get off your cell phone. Your car is on fire

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"But it's my BFF Jill!"

 
stiletto_the_wise 2007-12-16 11:49:57 AM  
MycroftHolmes: I am curious: have all these people who are claiming Darwin developed the ability to see around corners so they can see under their cars? Or do they think that car fires announce themselves with loud whooshing noises like in the movies?

You'd have a point if the fire wasn't noticeable to someone outside the car. By the time it gets that serious, "I can't see under my car" is no longer an excuse.

Darwin warranted.

 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 11:50:17 AM  
BigDumbGuy: No hero tag? At least her car broke down in a nice part of west side... I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to help out a young woman

The tag's probably for her. Sounds like the kind of geniuses I used to run into working for a college finance company - can ace exams left and right, but can't write in English or understand how to fill out a financing application.

\seriously, we got apps in Chinese from the idiots at CUNY!

 
Jack Torrence [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 11:56:45 AM  
From the sound of this article, the dumb biatch would've failed her physics exam anyways.

 
Mad-n-FL 2007-12-16 11:57:28 AM  
At least he was not trying to warn her about a guy in the back seat with an axe........

 
Bith Set Me Up 2007-12-16 12:00:44 PM  
"The floor ish on fire. And the chair..."

 
DPoem 2007-12-16 12:05:33 PM  
Fark dreadfully needs a "Darwin" tag.

 
oukewldave 2007-12-16 12:07:37 PM  
How long until she sues the guy for assault and trauma because he forcefully grabbed her? Maybe throw in a sexual misconduct because he brushed her boob when he grabbed her.

 
borland502 2007-12-16 12:10:48 PM  
Sadly, it's probably the fact that a big, black guy rushed towards her car that freaked her out. Nevermind he had the safety vest and jumped out of a snowplow. The only thought in her head, besides OMG, was

"You're gonna get [blanked out]"

'course maybe she's just a normal cell phone ditz.

 
skinink 2007-12-16 12:12:40 PM  
The car, the car, the car is on fiya!!! We don't need the student, let the motherfarka burn!!! burn motherfarker burn!

 
90amps 2007-12-16 12:24:21 PM  
This story is a filthy lie. IDOT would never stop for a stranded motorist, much less pull them from a burning vehicle.

/ISTHA on the other hand...
//tolls sukk lol

 
jbrooks544 2007-12-16 12:26:34 PM  
dumbass tag indeed! DUMBASS!

 
Kurmudgeon 2007-12-16 12:35:19 PM  
"Honda. Awesome for ten years, and then they burn to the ground and make you flunk Physics."

Awesome apologetics there, Lou.
Most 10 year old cars don't spontaneously combust.
Check those fuel lines and check for oil leaks, folks, that old car can't maintain itself.
Old rice must be especially flammable, I saw another import burn along the interstate not long ago. They go up quick, get OUT of the car!!
Can't tell you for sure, but may have been a Toyota, it's just hard to tell once the plastic melts off.

 
IAmDrGalacawicz 2007-12-16 12:37:06 PM  
Roosevelt University student Khushboo Jani was oblivious to the flames licking the lower part of her car.

This is your reason, right here.

 
yakmans_dad 2007-12-16 01:10:28 PM  
A very smart woman I know was driving when he car caught on fire. Way before cell phones. Flames and smoke out the back. A driver behind her started honking like crazy and, of course, it took awhile to figure out that the honks were for her. He pulled alongside and pointed to the issue at hand. She pulled over to the side of the road and got out and walked away. 10 seconds or so later the car went up like a TV show car explosion.

 
modelcitizen 2007-12-16 01:10:40 PM  
FriarReb98: BigDumbGuy: No hero tag? At least her car broke down in a nice part of west side... I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to help out a young woman

The tag's probably for her. Sounds like the kind of geniuses I used to run into working for a college finance company - can ace exams left and right, but can't write in English or understand how to fill out a financing application.

\seriously, we got apps in Chinese from the idiots at CUNY!

My doctors handwriting is awful. I'm not even sure it's English. He's still way smarter than me when it comes to diagnosing patients.

 
Kurst_Putz 2007-12-16 01:12:10 PM  
"all these people who are claiming Darwin developed the ability to see around corners"

I don't recall seeing anyone claim Darwin has developed the ability to see around corners.

 
ThatGuyOverThere 2007-12-16 01:14:02 PM  
mywebpages.comcast.net

 
rainbow sprinkles 2007-12-16 01:25:24 PM  
Her name is Khushboo? Ouch.

 
Walljasper 2007-12-16 01:43:39 PM  
'Trouble is that she and her like-minded morans are alive, free and totally distracted from the task at hand....talk about a clear and present danger. Gah.

So shut the fark up and drive, biatches!

/tired of near-mises from stupid douchebags....grrrr

 
macdaddy357 2007-12-16 02:06:01 PM  
What a bimbo.

 
Daemon Spooler [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 02:30:39 PM  
If you've ever had flames licking the lower part of your car, it's pretty hard to ignore. And impolite, too.

 
BadGurl404 [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 03:40:48 PM  
So will the Chicago area news stations cover this one as: "IDOT worker saves idiot driver from DIAF. Film at 10"?

Or - "Snowplow driver saves hot driver from hotter car"

 
Kill_Da_Wabbit 2007-12-16 03:57:37 PM  
... spotted the flames rising a few feet high from underneath her car.


"Dad?! I think I blew my FluxCapacitor!"

 
Flybynight619 2007-12-16 05:36:31 PM  
Women with Cell phones should not drive.

 
40oz_A_Knight 2007-12-16 06:19:05 PM  
Flybynight619: Women with Cell phones should not drive.

 
ttc2301 2007-12-16 06:39:46 PM  
IAmDrGalacawicz: Roosevelt University student Khushboo Jani was oblivious to the flames licking the lower part of her car.

This is your reason, right here.

Thought that this happened in Bangalore until I read the location.

/yeah, I know...that's racist

 
perennial fark-up 2007-12-16 06:44:26 PM  
When I went to Roosevelt, they usually weeded out the idiots during midterms.

 
simpsonfan 2007-12-16 07:03:25 PM  
Meh, if she locks herself in, let her burn. Just get the videocamera ready. I doubt she would have passed that exam anyway.

 
anonymous 2007-12-16 07:49:40 PM  
Once I got punished as a kid for trying to tell people their car was on fire. My parents wouldn't even look and so I just sat in the car while I watched a cigarette in the back window of the car next to me slowly spread flames to the entire car.

When they came back and the parking lot was full of smoke, and the fire had somehow burnt itself out, they had a good laugh.

damn childhood sucked regress regress regress

 
cwolf20 [TotalFark] 2007-12-16 09:06:50 PM  
and people complain that some states ticket people for talking on a cell phone while driving.

 
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