In any big city, there are a few uniquely urban disasters that people worry about. We fret about falling on subway tracks or discovering a crocodile in Central Park, even though getting pushed on to subway tracks by a crazy man is less likely than getting struck by lightning. Still, every once in a while, these terrible things happen to people, like when a woman fell through a Con Ed grate:
Shortly after seven in the morning, a woman was walking along the sidewalk on West 51st St. when the grating she walked over collapsed beneath her and she dropped 12-feet.According to Con Edison, the hinges on the grating that covers a transformer vault underground, gave way. Crews were called to turn off the power so firefighters could pull her up from beneath the sidewalk.
“I was walking in front of her and all of a sudden I heard somebody yelling, somebody fell, and I turned around and there was a hole in the ground,” said Danny Bancherd. “That’s when I ran over, saw it and ran to my job and called 911.”
Makes you want to walk around those things, doesn't it?
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