Jogger Wearing iPod Doesn’t Hear Train Loses Legs

07.06.07 - 12:24pm

Perhaps as another wake-up call not to listen to your music too loudly when jogging in areas of oncoming vehicles, particularly trains, a jogger in Florida had her legs severed when she didn’t hear an oncoming train.

Cheryl Anne Risse was jogging in Pompano Beach Thursday when she tried to cross the railroad tracks along the North Dixie Highway.

She tripped and fell and since she was wearing her iPod did not hear the upcoming train and did not get out of the way. She had her legs severed below the knee.

The train engineer did not see her until he returned along the same tracks minutes later.

Fortunately a sheriff was passing and noticed her waving her arms.

Obviously in shock she told Tony Long a battalion chief for Pompano Beach Fir-Rescue who responded to the scene, “My feet are on fire. Do you think you can put the fire out? They’re really hurting.”

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