I just heard that Miss Deaf Texas was struck and killed by a train in Austin yesterday. Initial reports claimed that she was crossing the tracks, ignoring the train's warning horns. There is a valuable lesson buried in this story, I just know it.

In a seemingly unrelated story, national networks recently broadcast the story that a blind teen in Chicago must take and pass Driver's Education classes before she can graduate high school. In Chicago the tracks are probably safer than the roads; blind drivers aren't so good with stoplights.

Even more bizarre is the story of an eighteen year old who became a quadriplegic in a Lubbock juvenile detention center after an employee dared him to attempt a back flip off a picnic table in December. (Yes, everything is stranger in Texas.) Of course, the teen is suing the state, because he didn't know better than to try to flip backwards off a table. Please note that he was in juvie because he assaulted a teacher, yet he's willing to blame another authority figure for his debilitating spinal injury. Go figure. At least we don't have to worry about this fellow hitting the road anytime soon. (Unless, of course, he falls out of his wheelchair.)

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