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Staten Island, New York - In a graphic and pungent demonstration of natural selection in action, a New York teen fell into an open sewer because texting was more important than looking where she was walking.

In what has been described - rather aptly - as a freak accident, the freak in question, 15-year-old Alexa Longueira, obviously from the shallow end of the gene pool, was so busy texting that she failed to notice an open manhole in front of her and plummeted five feet into a pool of a rather more noisome nature, scraping her back and arms and losing a shoe in the process.