I'm going straight to hell for laughing at this [Archive]

TopDaugIn2000

3/14/2006, 11:00 AM

Who wants me to save them a seat????

oh my (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/14/beauty.queen.death.ap/index.html)

Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The reigning Miss Deaf Texas died after being struck by a train, officials said.

Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, was walking Monday near railroad tracks when she was struck by a Union Pacific train, authorities said.

A witness told Austin television station KTBC the train sounded its horn right up until the accident occurred.

McAvoy, who had been deaf since birth, won the state title in June and represented the state "with dignity and pride," state pageant director Laura Loeb-Hill told The Associated Press via e-mail Monday night.

McAvoy was to represent Texas at the Miss Deaf America pageant this summer, Loeb-Hill said.

McAvoy graduated last year from the Texas School for the Deaf, attended Austin Community College and then started at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in January, but had returned to Texas, Loeb-Hill said.

KC//CRIMSON

3/14/2006, 11:04 AM

Was she blind too? That's horrible.

mrowl

3/14/2006, 11:06 AM

horrible....

but how do you miss all the signs? the gates, the flashing lights, the vibrating ground?

drunk?

sooneron

3/14/2006, 11:06 AM

http://www.intercom.hu/honlapok/southpark/img/dd.satan.a.gif

C'mon y'all give me a hand - gotta make room for TD in 2 thous-and!

3/14/2006, 11:07 AM

Why was she walking by the tracks?

That is sad.

Pieces Hit

3/14/2006, 11:07 AM

The Texas School for the Deaf should have trained her better.

yermom

3/14/2006, 11:10 AM

The Texas School for the Deaf should have trained her better.

ok, THAT'S funny

this is pretty sad though, especially since she was probably HAWT

mrowl

3/14/2006, 11:11 AM

ok, THAT'S funny

this is pretty sad though, especially since she was probably HAWT

http://www.deaftexas.org/Tara%20McAvoy.jpg

yermom

3/14/2006, 11:11 AM

this probably means i need a seat too

picasso

3/14/2006, 11:13 AM

hey Ron, is that Mick as The Motorcycle Boy in your avvie?
Rumble Fish was one great flick.

Sooner Born Sooner Bred

3/14/2006, 11:16 AM

That's my cousin :(

sooneron

3/14/2006, 11:25 AM

hey Ron, is that Mick as The Motorcycle Boy in your avvie?
Rumble Fish was one great flick.
Yep

We were talking about it on the "best movie from your whatever hometown or something"(the title made no sense.

It was on the other day, I got the wife hooked on it.

The movie RMFO

Grimey

3/14/2006, 11:29 AM

that's terrible!

Okla-homey

3/14/2006, 11:40 AM

Not funny, but if had happened in Deaf Smith County, the irony would have been too much for me to bear.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/197/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzimag.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Pieces Hit

3/14/2006, 11:45 AM

* bump *

Hatfield

3/14/2006, 11:45 AM

more than likely she killed herself.

looks like she went off to college and then came back to texas so I won't be suprised if it comes out she was having issues and took the last train to clarksville

SoonerWood

3/14/2006, 11:45 AM

Odd, but I don't find anything funny about that at all.

mdklatt

3/14/2006, 11:49 AM

Odd, but I don't find anything funny about that at all.

Me neither.

However, I do it find it funny when a plane full of skydivers crashes. :O

Skysooner

3/14/2006, 11:50 AM

soonerbrat

3/14/2006, 11:52 AM

i can't believe that anyone would laugh at someone else's tragedy like that.

picasso

3/14/2006, 11:52 AM

Not funny, but if had happened in Deaf Smith County, the irony would have been too much for me to bear.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/197/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzimag.gif (http://imageshack.us)
you know if you drive I-40 through the Tejas panhandle you go in and out of the same counties? sure seems that way.

sorry for all the threadjacking.

soonerbrat

3/14/2006, 11:55 AM

ok, THAT'S funny

this is pretty sad though, especially since she was probably HAWT

so it's more tragic when a hawt girl dies than just some ordinary person?

you people are sick.

Sooner Born Sooner Bred

3/14/2006, 11:56 AM

i can't believe that anyone would laugh at someone else's tragedy like that.esp since I said she was my cousin:mad:

Grimey

3/14/2006, 11:58 AM

I think this whole thread sucks. really funny guys:rolleyes:

I'm sorry you had to read this SBSB

soonerbrat

3/14/2006, 12:01 PM

esp since I said she was my cousin:mad:

is she really your cousin?

Pieces Hit

3/14/2006, 12:01 PM

"I hear that train a comin'
it's rollin round the bend.."

http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_ap/200_80/pic200/drP200/P232/P2322366I1L.jpg

Sorry, wrong thread.
That "Walk the Line" was a good movie though.

Okla-homey

3/14/2006, 12:02 PM

The Texas School for the Deaf should have trained her better.

Oh, a pun!

I'm slow today.

TopDaugIn2000

3/14/2006, 12:05 PM

Oh, a pun!

I'm slow today.

That one took me a few minutes too. I'm drugged on allergy drugs though, you?

Okla-homey

3/14/2006, 12:13 PM

That one took me a few minutes too. I'm drugged on allergy drugs though, you?

Well then you better stay away from train tracks missy, because if you got smooshed by a southbound freight there are people here who would find that funny.;)

yermom

3/14/2006, 12:17 PM

so it's more tragic when a hawt girl dies than just some ordinary person?

you people are sick.

:O

no, not really. but i didn't really think the thread was funny before, just kinda cruel, it's not like she was some kinda train activist or something ironic (like the seatbelt kid a while ago)

sorry for your loss SBSB, things are different when it's personal. it's way too easy to make light when you don't know the person.

TopDaugIn2000

3/14/2006, 12:18 PM

Well then you better stay away from train tracks missy, because if you got smooshed by a southbound freight there are people here who would find that funny.;)

I'll be sure to do that. Thanks.

Newbomb Turk

3/14/2006, 12:30 PM

reading the story, I kept thinking something in it would be funny. I didn't see it though.

sooner n houston

3/14/2006, 12:40 PM

This thread is a sad reflection on our society today!

SoonerInKCMO

3/14/2006, 12:45 PM

This story is almost as funny as the one about the dumb girl that lost control of her car because of a piece of tire tread flying at her (typical woman driver) and then ran into a semi.

Now that was a knee-slapper!

Pieces Hit

3/14/2006, 12:45 PM

I guess you just had to be there.

Sooner Born Sooner Bred

3/14/2006, 04:25 PM

No, she isn't really my cousin, but you sick bastards didn't know that.

Show some compassion.

Jimminy Crimson

3/14/2006, 04:32 PM

What'd you say?

;)

TopDaugIn2000

3/14/2006, 04:38 PM

proud gonzo

3/14/2006, 04:39 PM

not so much funny as sadly ironic.

jk the sooner fan

3/14/2006, 04:43 PM

if only the train could sign language that damn whistle.......

C&CDean

3/14/2006, 05:13 PM

I was gonna make some "pull a train" reference - but I just ain't like that.

Sooner Born Sooner Bred

3/14/2006, 05:21 PM

So the only reason you guys think it's funny is because she was deaf?

C&CDean

3/14/2006, 05:25 PM

No. I always find it funny when people walk in front of trains.

bigdsooner

3/14/2006, 05:25 PM

that is os sad

RacerX

3/14/2006, 06:08 PM

if only the train could sign language that damn whistle.......

or braille.

slickdawg

3/14/2006, 06:11 PM

Man, that's terrbile.

Sooner98

3/14/2006, 06:46 PM

I'm still trying to figure out wtf is even remotely funny about this.

Okla-homey

3/14/2006, 06:55 PM

yermom

3/14/2006, 06:58 PM

No, she isn't really my cousin, but you sick bastards didn't know that.

Show some compassion.

i hate you so very much :mad:

Sooner Born Sooner Bred

3/14/2006, 07:16 PM

I could be that girl. I've had nightmares about getting hit by a train.

TopDaugIn2000

3/14/2006, 07:24 PM

The funny part is that TD2K stomped on her crank with golf shoes this morning (as we all do here from time to time) and has been back-pedaling all day citing some mysterious inability to think rationally due to ingestion of allergy medication instead of sacking-up and admitting she's a cold, heartless beyonce.:D

I noticed the headline and found it extremely ironic, so I thought I'd post it. Allergy drugs or not, cold heartless beyonce or not, I posted it.

Al Gore

3/14/2006, 07:41 PM

I am ahead of you in line.......

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36471

Okla-homey

3/14/2006, 07:41 PM

I noticed the headline and found it extremely ironic, so I thought I'd post it. Allergy drugs or not, cold heartless beyonce or not, I posted it.

Hey, don't get your thong in a twist...I smilied you.;) :D ;) :D

3/14/2006, 07:48 PM

I think she probably offed herself. It would be funny around the campfire, but... well... I guess that's what we have here.

Still, I can't bring myself to laugh. Her folks aren't laughing much.

Sincerely,
Captain Buzzkill

TopDaugIn2000

3/14/2006, 07:54 PM

Hey, don't get your thong in a twist...I smilied you.;) :D ;) :D

not mad. just sayin.

jk the sooner fan

3/14/2006, 07:57 PM

or braille.

dude, if she's reading braille on a train, its way too late

jk the sooner fan

3/14/2006, 07:58 PM

stomped on her crank with golf shoes

military flashback.......havent heard that since before i retired

thanks for that memory.

Czar Soonerov

3/14/2006, 07:59 PM

http://www.deaftexas.org/Tara%20McAvoy.jpg

I hit it like a...nevermind, you people are sick.

Jimminy Crimson

3/15/2006, 05:01 PM

I'd hit it like a freight train!

:mack:

josh09

3/15/2006, 05:09 PM

ouch

josh09

3/15/2006, 05:09 PM

WHY would she be walking next to the tracks when shes deaf?

hmmm

Sooner Born Sooner Bred

3/15/2006, 05:10 PM

It's possible she was planning on walking across the tracks to get somewhere else.

Skysooner

3/15/2006, 05:11 PM

I saw a post on another board that said she was text messaging and didn't notice the vibration from the train. Also, she apparently thought the trains only came from one direction and thought she would see it. She was hit by the cattle thing in front of the train rather than the train itself. She was just close to the tracks.