WHAT WAS THIS GUY THINKING?

[sledgehammer]

I was reading the local paper today and the front page had this at the top.

It seems that 3 teenagers were doing some drinking playing be the tracks. When one of them decide to be invinsable. The train was a slow moving freight. He was sticking his head inbetween each of the passing cars and withe his reflex being slow he did not make it on the last trip.
He ended up in the hospital with a concusion. And a very lucky boy.

What do you guys think

[selector]

I saw a German Shepherd cut exactly in half ,by a train, when I was about eight. I still have a vivid memory of seeing the two parts of the animal beside the tracks.

Yes, the lad was very lucky.

[Anonymous]

I'll bet the other two dared him to do it.

[AntonioFP45]

How incredibly idiotic![D)]

But guys, you know what I wonder? Will this "yahoo's" parents want to sue the railroad for whatever reason a lawyer can find?

I've read of too many cases where railroads are not a fault and yet they settle out of court. They need to come after violaters hard!

Sorry for venting, but I remember those two boys up in New York that were skateboarding on top of a couple of boxcars. They were shocked by the overhead wires and got hurt. The parents turn around and sue Amtrak! Unbelieveable!

It's parents and kids like these that I would love to see put on an airplane and dropped off in Iraq or Iran. That would be far better than any lengthy jail sentence!

[rtraincollector]

1st 3 teenagers and alchol don't mix we all know most of us tried it and can look back and rem why it don't.
2nd wouldsay very lucky train tracks are no where to play sober or drunk. had a very good freind when in high school who got lucky in only lost half of her foot as it got stuck in a switch and those with her couldn't get help in time the switch switched electricly and chopped off her foot about half way between her toes and ankle

[espeefoamer]

He was probably trying to get mentioned in the Darwin Awards book[xx(].

[espeefoamer]

Teenagers+alcohol+trains=something very bad happening[B)][8][:(!][xx(].

[Fergmiester]

What was this guy thinking?...

HE WASN'T!!!!Duh

[jwar]

There is no law, nor saftey rule that can keep someone from doing some act of being stupid. So far in my life, I havent met a single person that hasent done somthing stupid at one time or another, in his lifetime. However I know a lot of very lucky people, me included LOL.

[nickinwestwales]

Think of it as a form of non-darwinian selection---a few less clowns like that can only improve the gene pool...

[selector]

I used to think that way, and do understand what you are saying, Nick, but I have changed.

My middle daughter was our black sheep, and I ordered her out of our home a few years back (she was only 16, but I had to do it for the sake of everyone else in the family...long story. Was the hardest thing I have ever done.) Now, years later, she is a wonderful, loving, and responsible young woman who is in a stable relationship and who is in the top of her college class doing a demanding Dental Operation Assistant course. I think the world is better off, not by my having taken a hard line in early years, but because of who she has turned out to be.

Sorry to disagree so strongly, but this hits close to home...if you know what I mean.

[trainfan1221]

There is no hope. But hopefully this guy does wise up after this and realize how lucky he is. maybe it knocked some sense into him.

[grayfox1119]

There is no way society can protect people from "themselves". Once again we see there is no shortage of candidates for the Annual Darwin Awards.
Lets see how long it takes for the parents to hire a shark and get $$ from this one!

[rexhea]

You know, I get so fed up with people saying, "...ahh, they are just kids. They will out grow it." The fact is that many don't and many will continue to create havoc on the rest of us with their smart mouths and 1000 watt ear splitting car bass. Since you can't do anything to them, you just want to track down the parents and beat the ....out of them.

Teachers can't teach; Employers can't employ; Police can't even police. Why has our society changed so much that can't teach our children to love and respect the rights and property of others?

Sorry for the vent, REX

REX

[canazar]

Like when the cat first got up on the counter my fiancee was worried about him burning his fee tonthe stove... "Well, if he does, he will only do it once."

Mooning a cop on a dare is stupid. Getting caught tolietpapering your buddies house is stupid. Jumping your bike over the sidewalk is stupid... We all have done things like it. That act by the kids is just playing with death. Hopefully, as the cat learned, and his freinds will think before doing something like that again.[banghead]

[Pruitt]

In high school I had a friend who liked to go out with another friend and get drunk. They did it a lot. One day the two drove down to a low (6-foot tall or so) trestle on the tracks east of town and he climbed up on it. As he was cavorting around on the trestle a train came around the curve. No problem yet - the curve was a good half mile from the trestle, and the train - a very long freight - was slowing on its way into town. It was moving maybe 30 mph. My drunk friend discovered his foot was stuck, and he frantically tried to free himself. The other guy, sitting on the fender of his car and also drunk, was laughing up a storm at my friend's clowning around.

He stopped laughing when the lead loco ripped the guy on the trestle to pieces.

That's a true story - Union Pacific just east of Cheyenne WY in early spring 1974.

[sledgehammer]

I have heard alot of opinions from you guys. There is nothing wrong with venting. I have two little girls. I live only 300 feet from a crossing. The trains got throught here at 60 mph or only 25 or 30 if it has just left the lumber mill. I just hope i can teach enought sence into them that trains are dangerous.
My oldest belongs to WAR AMPS.(born with two fingers on her left hand) We go to a seminar every year and the train is the number one cause of Amputee's.
Its not like they dno't teach this in school as well. I remeber the videos quit well. They painted a very good picture of what trains can do.
thanks to all who expressed there opinon.

[rrinker]

It sticks, believe me. When my oldest about 4, Conrail brought in their Operation Lifesaver train to a local fair. We watched a video from UP, it has a fox doing stupid stuff around trains and a little bird who tries to keep him from doing them. A few months later I took him to Strasburg. After the train ride we went over to the Red Caboose for dinner, and while waiting we watched the last run for the day go by. Sitting near us were some tourists from NY or something, and the kids were putting coins on the track. My son goes over to their parents and says "You shouldn't let them do that" and then comes back and says we should go sit somewhere else. The coins possibly shooting out like bullets was one of the things in the safety video he saw.

--Randy

[cwclark]

that's a real good way to thin out the darwin award gene pool...if they only knew what a train is capable of..i've never seen a first hand death experience via a train, but i've seen one derail before and the wheels are so heavy and powerful that they instantly cut through the railroad ties in half as a person would snap a match stick in half...some of the kids just don't think...Chuck

[cheese3]

QUOTE: How incredibly idiotic![D)]

[#ditto]

[selector]

That sounds like a highly provocative statement, Dave, but I do believe it is true to a limited extent. I think that kids spend more time indoors being entertained and watching TV or spending time on the computer, so they don't get 'street smarts'. By the time I was 14, I had a fairly good appreciation for the dangers of the real world, some real, some imagined. I think the worst that modern kids are exposed to is the 'strange man' who asks you for directions, or if you want candy. Playing on the tracks on a nice evening, away from Mom and Dad, out with the boys and a bottle, seems pretty secure to them.