Florida girl, 11, wearing headphones, looking at phone hit and killed by train

Parents and those who care for young people: PLEASE teach the young people in your life the basic rules of common sense and the necessary survival skills to function in modern life thus protecting them from needless tragedies! We are all too addicted to our electronic devices. If we’re not careful, we’re going to have a society full of mindless, zombified idiots who can’t even walk down the street without getting injured or killed.

My wife and I can’t tell you how many people we encounter in our town whose heads are glued downward to their electronic devices when crossing a busy street. They don’t even look up to check on-coming traffic before stepping off the curb. They just assume the cars will stop. Is life so cheap to them that there’s no fear of death? Are they so addicted to your devices that their brains have become mush? Dear Lord, please save us from our own stupidity! Do you anyone out there know what I mean?

From: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/04/florida-girl-11-wearing-headphones-looking-at-phone-hit-and-killed-by-train.html

An 11-year-old girl was hit and killed by an Amtrak train in Florida Wednesday after she failed to hear the train conductor’s horn blow while she was crossing the tracks, investigators said.

Yazmin White was on the way home from a supermarket before walking through a wooded area and trying to cross over the railroad tracks, according to a media release.

Polk County detectives investigating the death said the conductor blew the train horn and started braking when he saw the girl attempting to cross the tracks. Investigators said Yazmin didn’t make any indication she was aware the train was approaching — and evidence revealed she was wearing headphones at the time.

The conductor also told police she was looking down at her phone while she was walking.

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The Amtrak train conductor says he blew the horn but Yazmin was wearing headphones.  (Fox 13 Tampa)

The train, which had 12 passenger cars and two engines, was going about 68 miles per hour when it struck the 11-year-old.

“We are completely heartbroken and send our deepest condolences to Yazmin White’s family,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. “This is a tragedy no parent or family should have to go through. Please keep them in your prayers.”

Yazmin attended Davenport School of the Arts where she studied piano, according to Fox 13 Tampa.

 

3 thoughts on “Florida girl, 11, wearing headphones, looking at phone hit and killed by train

  1. Very sad and Incomprehensible! What a shame! Why would train conductors not be capable of avoiding such a thing? Can they not see far enough ahead and break soon enough to avoid such a thing? Nevertheless, yes, I am dumbfounded by how ridiculously pervasive and severe these addictions are. I know of many youth who are so obsessed with these things that they come to have no real friends, no other interests, are sedentary, isolated even from their families in their own homes, are failing in their academics, don’t get their driver’s license or job when they get old enough, and more. Their retarded development and dysfunction is unfathomable, and the implications for their future is startling.

    The greater thing that baffles me is how did their parents ever not know what they were contributing to by their negligence and mindless allowances? And what of the industry that continues to develop things that are intended to be so addictive, and all for the greedy love of money? There’s enough blame to go around. By all means, everyone who sees this sad and destructive phenomena must do what they can to save others from it. It is a demonic power and principality serving the purposes of the adversary. May the Ruach of Elohim be poured out on all flesh, for the sake of His great esteem and may His kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
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    • Agreed and amein. Many tools, devices, objects, or whatever it may be have a good side and a bad. It all depends on whether you master it or it masters you. Too many people are becoming mindless serfs or even slaves to things which are destructive. The NWO order matrix is slowly absorbing too many people into it, and their loving it and embracing their enslavement.

  2. Slowly? The pace is getting more and more rapid, it seems to me.

    Nevertheless…..the time is drawing nearer, so let us evermore seek and save the lost and tend to the weak, the oppressed and the wayward. For He has said….

    “I will seek the lost, bring back the stray, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. But the fat and the strong I will destroy—I will tend them with justice.” [Eze 34:16]

    More power to you!

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