Luckily It's The Falling In Love Not The Falling Off Of The Elevated Platform For Red Line Traveler

By Sam Bakken in News on Jun 14, 2005 9:05PM

And In This Corner, The Red Line! Yesterday a man looking for the cell phone he'd just dropped was hit in the head by a Red Line train at the Sox/35th Street station. Details are a bit spotty, but apparently at around 10:40 p.m. Monday the man dropped his cell phone on the tracks and bent down to retrieve it when he was knocked unconscious by the train. Holy shit! Did he not look to see if a train was coming before he bent down? That's quite a sucker punch. Fortunately the man was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was in stable condition. He's expected to be released later today.