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

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"Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed Tuesday, March 14, 2006; Posted: 9:27 a.m. EST (14:27 GMT) 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."

3/14/2006 10:30:24 AM

was she blind too?

3/14/2006 10:33:12 AM

The only thing that comes to mind is "Drop Dead Gorgeous"

3/14/2006 10:34:44 AM

i thought deaf ppl could feel vibrations better, u can def feel a train coming...sounds sketch...

3/14/2006 10:37:04 AM

as i said in the other thread, she was probably listening to her ipod

[Edited on March 14, 2006 at 10:42 AM. Reason : straight to hell...]

3/14/2006 10:42:34 AM

3/14/2006 10:56:22 AM

why would you be on train tracks if you are deaf?

3/14/2006 11:28:23 AM

cuz she was ready for deaf

3/14/2006 11:31:40 AM

most deafinately

3/14/2006 11:33:43 AM

i am sure that being deaf would render your sense of touch useless as well, since she apparently did not feel the vibration of the train on the tracks.

3/14/2006 11:35:04 AM

bitch committed suicide no doubt.

3/14/2006 11:38:06 AM

^agreed.

3/14/2006 11:59:26 AM

Loeb-Hill

3/14/2006 12:48:19 PM

She gets the Hellen Keller-Darwin Award

[Edited on March 14, 2006 at 12:54 PM. Reason : .]

3/14/2006 12:54:04 PM

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"Texas"

Thar be your answer.

3/14/2006 12:54:34 PM

is she now going to be crowned Miss Death Texas?

3/14/2006 2:13:18 PM

miss deaf texas. what a fucking stupid contest

3/14/2006 2:30:08 PM

Maybe they were trying to tell her to get away from them.


i mean rly.

3/14/2006 2:33:12 PM

miss petite america pageant > miss deaf america pageant

i bout got wood just hearing about a beauty pageant for girls shorter than 5'4"

3/14/2006 2:35:40 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=393942

3/14/2006 2:43:26 PM

it says she was walking "near" railroad tracks. Maybe she was walking next to the track, too far to feel the vibrations but close enough for the train to clip her

3/14/2006 3:09:45 PM

SHE IS FUCKING DEAF.

SHE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO WALK CLOSE TO A TRAIN TRACK AND NOT LOOK IN BOTH DIRECTIONS EVERY SO OFTEN.

SHE KILLED HERSELF OBVIOUSLY.

EITHER WAY, DARWINISM WINS.

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3/14/2006 3:19:10 PM

Quote :

"She gets the Hellen Keller-Darwin Award"

hahahaha! No kidding. How can you be dumb enough to be on a railroad track without looking around?

3/14/2006 3:45:08 PM

duck

threads titled like that don't deserve to be an official thread, even if they were made first

sorry

3/14/2006 4:01:54 PM

I dont understand this. Ok she's deaf... but it doesnt say she's also blind.

3/14/2006 6:25:35 PM

obviously, the runner-up girl pushed her

3/14/2006 7:05:43 PM

thats awful... i laughed so hard when i saw this just now and i am going to hell because of it

3/14/2006 10:57:17 PM

Darwin sez "Choo Choo!"

3/14/2006 11:27:29 PM

turns out she was walking the tracks and text messaging people on her cell. Walkin the tracks is a great plan if you are deaf

3/15/2006 1:59:36 PM

I have a profound hearing loss myself and I sure as hell wouldn't be walking near/on the railroad tracks. Even walking on the roads, I'm constantly looking around me in the event I am unable to hear a car horn go off....It's really unfortunate that accidents like these happen.

3/15/2006 2:14:28 PM

It was suicide. If you ever stand near train tracks..the entire ground shakes before the trains comes for long enough for anyone to realize.."Hey..either that's an earthquake or a train comming..."

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 2:58 PM. Reason : .]

3/15/2006 2:57:22 PM

who lets a deaf girl play on train tracks? Grapehead 30 690 2:57 PM by therealramet
suicide. (Page 2) DirtyGreek 91 2324 2:56 PM by Shivan Bird

3/15/2006 3:08:59 PM

So wait....


She's in university in DC. Goes back to Texas, and plays on railroad tracks?


i'm suprized nobody did mention suicide....

3/15/2006 3:19:06 PM

she was text messaging

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/15/miss.deaf.texas/index.html

3/15/2006 3:20:10 PM

there is no way she didn't feel the train coming via vibrations

3/15/2006 3:20:30 PM

Quote :

"A snowplow -- commonly referred to as "cattle-guards" for pushing items away from the tracks to avoid train damage -- was what struck McAvoy, who was estimated to be "no more than a foot" from the tracks, Fugitt said. "

3/15/2006 4:07:37 PM

Quote :

"She was a beautiful, bright, young deaf woman"

hahah thats funny

3/15/2006 8:29:52 PM

saw a guy almost get hit on the tracks in front of wolfcreek, he was walking in the same direction, i guess it was going so fast that it snuck up on him (he was wearing headphones) but he jumped at the last second. maybe the same thing happened to her>?

3/15/2006 10:33:07 PM

no, she got hit you idiot

3/15/2006 10:36:52 PM

Okay, this girl may have pulled off a damn good suicide (as far as allowing for doubt about her true intentions goes).

Quote :

"A snowplow -- commonly referred to as "cattle-guards" for pushing items away from the tracks to avoid train damage -- was what struck McAvoy, who was estimated to be "no more than a foot" from the tracks, Fugitt said."

I would say suicide for sure, but this bit^ makes me second-guess my assumption. Why not take it full on to get the job done for sure? Why take just the side part and risk surviving only to be deaf AND in a wheel chair for the rest of her life?

Oh, she's good...

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 10:43 PM. Reason : sss]

3/15/2006 10:41:46 PM

because she wasnt committing suicide

she just got caught up in the plow

3/15/2006 10:47:43 PM

durr, i know she got hit, im just saying maybe it was moving so fast she didnt have time to move, ( the guy in my other post just got lucky )

3/15/2006 10:52:52 PM

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"because she wasnt committing suicide she just got caught up in the plow"

So she was deaf AND mentally retarded?

Fuck it. I shouldn't judge. We've all been thoughtless before.

[Edited on March 15, 2006 at 10:58 PM. Reason : sss]

3/15/2006 10:57:42 PM

^^hah there was supposed to be a face in that post, but i guess i forgot to put it

3/15/2006 11:05:55 PM

i bet it really pisses her off when people text message her with, "yo girl, call me back"

3/15/2006 11:20:27 PM

They have a Miss Deaf Texas? wth

3/16/2006 1:18:44 AM

Mos Def Texas

3/16/2006 1:20:23 AM

it's miss deaf and dead texas, now. lol

3/16/2006 1:22:29 AM

she looks just like sandi britton

3/16/2006 1:36:35 AM