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Old 11-03-2009, 09:45 PM
 
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because there's a kid involved, of course. but if you read that article it makes NO SENSE.
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Old 11-03-2009, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Chicago- Lawrence and Kedzie/Maywood
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Whats fishy?
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Old 11-03-2009, 09:52 PM
 
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we all end up just a memory | Stupid Mother/CTA tricks, you decide (http://essjaye.tumblr.com/post/232549094/stupid-mother-cta-tricks-you-decide - broken link)

I just wrote this. THAT'S what I think is fishy.

Someone is full of crap.
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Old 11-03-2009, 10:04 PM
 
Location: Chicago- Lawrence and Kedzie/Maywood
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Someone looking to sue?
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Old 11-03-2009, 10:45 PM
 
Location: Logan Square
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I don't understand why the stroller would have been on the train car at all. The majority of the stroller would have to have been on the outside of the car for the baby to have fallen out. Is it possible that the stroller that was turned in at Berwyn was not owned by the mother of the injured child. I often see the umbrella type strollers forgotten in train cars because that are folded up if the train is standing room only. The article I saw yesterday said that the baby was unstrapped in the stroller and the child as well a a few grocery bags fell beneath the platform when the train pulled off.

Are you suggesting that there was never a stroller in the first place or that the one returned at the Berwyn stop was planted?
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Old 11-03-2009, 11:44 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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...Am I the only one that finds this story incredibly fishy? And I don't mean on the part of the CTA.
No. The more I read about it earlier today (as more info came in) the more I doubted the claimed accidental nature of it.

There are many things that were removed from the story. Like how at first woman said the baby's head bounced on the platform a few times . Now she is saying the whole stroller was pulled down the length of the platform and the baby flew off onto a track area after hitting a barrier.

Also in the story earlier someone who knew the woman or her family stated the child had health problems and was "not growing."

The kid either was going to grow up with disabilities and/or have a short life expectancy. Mom is probably trying to blame her baby's health problems on the CTA with this very likely phony accident.

I sense a few new twists to an old Nigerian scam here.

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Old 11-04-2009, 06:45 AM
 
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I don't understand why the stroller would have been on the train car at all. The majority of the stroller would have to have been on the outside of the car for the baby to have fallen out. Is it possible that the stroller that was turned in at Berwyn was not owned by the mother of the injured child. I often see the umbrella type strollers forgotten in train cars because that are folded up if the train is standing room only. The article I saw yesterday said that the baby was unstrapped in the stroller and the child as well a a few grocery bags fell beneath the platform when the train pulled off.

Are you suggesting that there was never a stroller in the first place or that the one returned at the Berwyn stop was planted?
With the sequence of events it's entirely possible that the kid and someone else could have been on the platform, the mother ran up the stairs, past the couple with the empty stroller saying to hold the train, shove the stroller onto the train, get the kid on the tracks after the train left, then scream, which brought the couple back upstairs? I don't know.

It does not add up at all, and I still can't honestly believe that NO ONE saw anything substantial, even a random, rogue stroller just hanging out on the train. What i need to know is if that couple that saved the day actually saw a kid BEFORE they came back up to the platform.
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Old 11-04-2009, 07:16 AM
 
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Someone saw something. Now there will be more cameras.
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Old 11-04-2009, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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...It does not add up at all...
No it does not.

How would the stroller in question end up inside the train if the woman claimed the stroller was pulled outside of the train,hit a barrier, and then as a result, the baby was thrown onto a track area? Someone on the train would have had to pushed or pulled the stroller into the train at another stop. Would the stroller not be damaged significantly if it hit a barrier going 15-20 miles an hour?

I wonder if we ever will see a pic of the stroller in question.
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Old 11-04-2009, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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I love how people were so quick to blame the CTA yesterday.

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