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Desi student on cell phone as car burns

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Turns out the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burnt might be an urban legend but this modern day story is true (tip Anantha via Über Stories). [link]

Burning Car

“Appa, the car heater seems to work better when the car breaks down”

Khushboo Jani, a 23 year physics major, sat in her car chatting on a cell phone even as the car was starting to catch fire. Luckily for her, Demetrius Duplessis, a snowplow driver with the Illinois Department of Transportation, one of the guys who go about clearing snow on the roads daily, noticed this and pulled her to safety, even when she mistook him for an assailant.

The funny part of this story, Khushboo was more concerned about missing her physics final exams than her car burning, with her in it!! She even tried to go back to the burning car to “rescue” her physics book. Now that is one dedicated student!

The desi flavor to this story is overwhelming - desi physics student, 1996 Honda Civic, chatting on cell phone oblivious to surroundings, more concerned about exams than her life. As for Demetrius, he just shrugged off the accolades. “I just did it” he said. Good work!!

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6 comments for “Desi student on cell phone as car burns”

  1. 1: Runa | December 18, 2007, 12:37 pm | Direct Link

    This sounds like something out of a B grade comedy -girl yakking on cell phone- car on fire- snowplow samaritan mistaken for assailant

    more concerned about exams than her life

    Ms.Jani is my nominee for uberest desi !

  2. 2: Santosh | December 18, 2007, 2:24 pm | Direct Link

    Ms.Jani is my nominee for uberest desi !

    Good idea! We need more nominations for this category.

  3. 4: Lekhni | December 21, 2007, 5:39 pm | Direct Link

    She only calculated - value of car $500 vs. value of Physics notes:priceless.
    She never thought about herself because she was desi AND female :P

  4. 5: Santosh | December 21, 2007, 9:51 pm | Direct Link

    She never thought about herself because she was desi AND female

    Nice reference there to the abortion drug case :-)

  5. 6: Über Desi | And the Uber Desi awards for 2007 go to… | December 31, 2007, 2:42 pm | Direct Link

    [...] Desi: Ms. Kushboo Jani - For being more concerned about her exams than her life. Über Tounge Slip: Mr. Madhu Koda - For the “late” Sonia Gandhi comment. Über [...]

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