Liam Neeson - another head injury tragedy strikes family

zwiebel · Jun 27, 2014

Actor Liam Neeson, whose wife Natasha Richardson died following a head injury in a ski accident, has another nightmare accident in his family.

His 31 year-old nephew Ronan Sexton has fallen from the top of a telephone box in Brighton, UK, and is in critical condition.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...in-hospital-after-phone-box-fall-9566746.html

Marg from Oz · Jun 27, 2014

What on earth was he doing on top of a telephone box?

SeekingJana · Jun 27, 2014

What IS a telephone box? Seriously, where are there pay phones in the civilized world now?

redheadedgal · Jun 27, 2014

SeekingJana said:
What IS a telephone box?

google?

Seriously, where are there pay phones in the civilized world now?

they are still all over canada and the usa lol

not everyone can afford a phone/cellphone.

newone · Jun 27, 2014

SeekingJana said:
What IS a telephone box? Seriously, where are there pay phones in the civilized world now?

nice red kiosks in the UK (United Kingdom) aka free standing telephone booth

Marg from Oz · Jun 27, 2014

Here in Australia they keep disappearing. There was one at my shopping strip and there was always a guy asking for 50 cents to make a phone call. I haven't seen him for awhile and then I noticed the phone booth had disappeared.

zwiebel · Jun 27, 2014

Here's a couple of battered looking red phone boxes in Brighton - with the article saying there are plans to turn them into a mini-cafe. Don't know if they have been. They'd be mini cafes indeed.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1097...e_boxes_next_to_Pavilion_Gardens_in_Brighton/

I think Liam's nephew was probably messing about after a night out, and slipped. I hope he recovers.

zwiebel · Jun 27, 2014

Oh no. He didn't just fall from the phone box - he fell 20ft off the promenade it was standing on as well.

It was after a night out. I'm wondering if it had been raining and maybe the surface was slippery.

'The nephew of film star Liam Neeson is today in hospital with a 'serious head injury' after falling 20ft from a telephone box on Brighton promenade.
Ronan Sexton, 31, is in a 'critical condition' after enjoying a night out with friends in East Sussex.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...British-seafront-promenade.html#ixzz35q0ywvjl

ETA: That random picture I posted above of Brighton phone boxes, are the same ones the Mail is running. They may be the actual phone boxes in question. If they are, you can see the curved roofs and shiny enamel paint wouldn't make for good footholds.

oh_gal · Jun 27, 2014

SeekingJana said:
What IS a telephone box? Seriously, where are there pay phones in the civilized world now?

Actually, there are quite a few in areas where Amish people live.

chlban · Jun 27, 2014

redheadedgal said:
google?

they are still all over canada and the usa lol

not everyone can afford a phone/cellphone.

I see people who claim to be unable to afford anything with I-phones. I am somethimes amazed at the people that have them. Also their kids often have them.

I make a decent living, but I just finally gave in last November and bought a new phone, but still only went with the "old" model of a Samsung Galaxy (S3) because it was free with a new contract. Up until then I was using one of those "archaic" blackberries.

Very sad to hear this news for him. He seemed to have been genuinely devastated by the loss of his wife and that was such a strange accident. Walking around and seeming fine one minute and brain dead a few hours later. So tragic.

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