Some people...

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jamison1

Been there, done that (I mean to say your fathers position). Stupid people are the reason I get a paycheck.

Indeed...I saw a car yesterday drive right into a gate that was down. Not around the gate, but it smacked him right in the windshield! Lights flashing, bells dinging, horn blasting on the approaching BNSF manifest and this guy smashed right into the gate! Wi***here was an officer around to see that.

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vandenbm

QUOTE: Originally posted by jamison1

Been there, done that (I mean to say your fathers position). Stupid people are the reason I get a paycheck.

Indeed...I saw a car yesterday drive right into a gate that was down. Not around the gate, but it smacked him right in the windshield! Lights flashing, bells dinging, horn blasting on the approaching BNSF manifest and this guy smashed right into the gate! Wi***here was an officer around to see that.

Brings a whole new meaning to the word "idiot"![:(!].

[Anonymous]

i wonder if there was a way to equip the engines, or engineers with a digital camera to take a picture of the idiots who pass in from of them. I know it wouldn't be easy to take the picture, but maybe if there was a way to do so, then send it to the cops in that town, you guys might start seing a lessoning of stupidity if they new that there would be some consequenses. I can't imagine what it must be like to take out someone like that, knowing that you probably just killed them. It was hard enough for me when I was a kid when we hit a car on the Coast Starlight coming into Oakland 15 years ago.

Brad

[Anonymous]

Actually I saw in Trains that Norfolk Southern and I think perhaps BNSF are installing cameras on some of their locos just for that reason. If there ever is an accident or close call, you can just check the tape. Pretty soon we'll have "World's Wildest Train Videos!" on Fox...

[Anonymous]

In most situations, with idiots going in front of trains, this is a case of "thinning of the herd." With kids in the car, it's a whole different level of stupidity. [V][:(]

[Anonymous]

Cris Helt--

You called that one right! My term for it is "natural selection at work". With kids in the car is so incredibly idiotic that I can't even come up with a word for it. I'd like to be the cop, or better yet the judge, on that one.

Now, as to people who drive a Lexus or a BMW, it does seem to me that an awful lot of them are of the mentality that does exactly that sort of thing....

--JD

[vsmith]

Your father had that "other" 6th sense...

"I see Dumb people....there everywhere!.."

[Modelcar]

...Jkeaton: I do have a Lexus and....a pickup truck, but we're not all the same...I wouldn't think of going around a flashing signal and or gate at a RR crossing....!