Idiots In Action Almost Die

[mrjarrell]

It was only through luck that they escaped death or dismemberment. Guess they missed kindergarten the day they taught "don't play on the railroad tracks".

Dramatic video shows women escape death on railroad bridge - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

 

[daddyusmaximus]

I'm too fat to try that...

 

[ModernGunner]

They should be charged, not only with criminal trespass, but with reckless endangerment.

 

[KittySlayer]

Guess they missed kindergarten the day they taught "don't play on the railroad tracks".

At least they were not home watching Snidely Whiplash on the Bullwinkle Show. Otherwise they would have laid on the tracks in the wrong direction and required a Canadian to rescue them.

 

[1775usmarine]

I see people running around gates all the time at work. It pisses me off when one of these idiots dies and thier families say the train should of stopped. A train hitting a car is like same force as you running over a pop can in your car. It also can take up to 3 miles to stop a 100 car train traveling at 50mph.

NS where I work goes around and does crossing blitizes to try and inform people of the dnagers of walking on tracks and driving around gates. Most of the time people roll their windows up or throw our pamphlets out the window on the other side of the crossing. They even do train excursions on the company train where they recently had a guy who lost both legs talk about his experience. In the end pull his pant legs up to show the outcome.

I remember one night while responding to a train delay I was coming up to a gate that was down and was getting ready to turn onto the siding to meet the train. This idiot drives around the gate and the cop that was behind me pulled a u turn so fast I could smell the rubber. I just kept driving laughing my butt off. They ought to make the penatlies much stricter for trespassing on private property.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I see people running around gates all the time at work. It pisses me off when one of these idiots dies and thier families say the train should of stopped. A train hitting a car is like same force as you running over a pop can in your car. It also can take up to 3 miles to stop a 100 car train traveling at 50mph.

NS where I work goes around and does crossing blitizes to try and inform people of the dnagers of walking on tracks and driving around gates. Most of the time people roll their windows up or throw our pamphlets out the window on the other side of the crossing. They even do train excursions on the company train where they recently had a guy who lost both legs talk about his experience. In the end pull his pant legs up to show the outcome.

I remember one night while responding to a train delay I was coming up to a gate that was down and was getting ready to turn onto the siding to meet the train. This idiot drives around the gate and the cop that was behind me pulled a u turn so fast I could smell the rubber. I just kept driving laughing my butt off. They ought to make the penatlies much stricter for trespassing on private property.

I took a class in Frankfort several years ago that was put on by Norfolk Southern and got to ride the train a couple miles. I was shocked at how many people drove around the crossing arms, being on the train puts it into a whole new perspective. Worst gore I have seen in my 20 year LE career was a guy that committed suicide by train.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

When I took my DOT exam, we went out on the road and encountered a set of tracks, so I stopped to do the school bus train track crossing rituals. The guy told me, "this track isn't active, look, that gate (chain link fence) is closed." I replied "that gate won't slow a train down for a millisecond" and finished my rituals. I don't know whether it was a trick question, so to speak, but I wasn't falling for it.

Same thing when I'm out riding my bike on the road. Cars can hurt me, bad. Therefore I try to avoid that. I just don't get this mentality where people won't consider the potential consequences of their actions, but I suppose a lot of it is the way they're coddled from birth and nothing bad is ever allowed to happen to them. It's impossible to get an owie on the playground, insurance covers any loss, they're all unique little snowflakes, and the world owes them recognition of their greatness.

 

[Moparracer89]

I work for CSX. I understand the engineers response by putting the train in emergency but honestly it could have taken down the entire bridge.

 

[Lectric102002]

Proof positive that there is an endless supply in the shallow end of the gene pool.

 

[Leadeye]

Crazy cows from bloomington.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

I work for CSX. I understand the engineers response by putting the train in emergency but honestly it could have taken down the entire bridge.

From the braking forces acting under the momentum of the train's forward movement?

Kind of like if you try to stop on a slick rug on a slick floor and the rug slides away from you? That kind of effect?

-J-

 

[ws6guy]

When in my teens we would walk across some train trestles none were near the size of that one. Still dumb but that's what we did in the country. Now closing in on 20 years later I wouldn't think of it.

 

[BogWalker]

I've had to run from a train or two, but I'd never dream of walking on a trestle that long. The trestle I cross probably isn't 60 feet long, has a walkway on one side, and is over a river that is close enough to safely jump into. What these idiots did is, well, idiotic.

 

[ViperJock]

They should be charged, not only with criminal trespass, but with reckless endangerment.

Yeah. Because the courts aren't full enough already. No blood, no foul.

 

[printcraft]

Hey, I've seen that movie!

 

[IndyDave1776]

From the braking forces acting under the momentum of the train's forward movement?

Kind of like if you try to stop on a slick rug on a slick floor and the rug slides away from you? That kind of effect?

-J-

The train wants to keep moving. Adding braking force doesn't change that, and creates conflicting forces where the bridge then wants to move with the train like your rug, but it is fastened to its foundation. The pieces of the foundation now are subjected to conflicting forces wanting to stay put and wanting to topple over sideways. Theoretically, it could go down like a ribbon on top of a line of dominoes toppling.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Yeah. Because the courts aren't full enough already. No blood, no foul.

But had they been hit and killed by the train there would be new rules put in place for the railroad industry because it was obviously the train's fault.

 

[HoughMade]

The train wants to keep moving. Adding braking force doesn't change that, and creates conflicting forces where the bridge then wants to move with the train like your rug, but it is fastened to its foundation. The pieces of the foundation now are subjected to conflicting forces wanting to stay put and wanting to topple over sideways. Theoretically, it could go down like a ribbon on top of a line of dominoes toppling.

I represented an Amtrak engineer a few years ago in an accident where a garbage truck pulled out in front of him. He did not attempt an emergency stop (though he hit the brakes) because he knew it was too close to help and he thought the risk of derailment and to his train full of people was greater than anything which could have been gained.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I represented an Amtrak engineer a few years ago in an accident where a garbage truck pulled out in front of him. He did not attempt an emergency stop (though he hit the brakes) because he knew it was too close to help and he thought the risk of derailment and to his train full of people was greater than anything which could have been gained.

I hope you won.

 

[HoughMade]

I hope you won.