More Stupid People

robscaboose

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April 2004
From: Terre Haute IN
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More Stupid People

Posted by robscaboose on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:49 PM

[:I][:o)][?] On Sunday evening a woman attempted to drive across the tracks in the "middle" of CN's former ICRR yard in Mattoon Illinois where she was promtly hit by the Southbound Amtrak "Illini". Fortunately, the train had just made a station stop & was not yet up to speed. The car was hit at about 10mph. The women was injured, but will recover. The closest RR crossing was about 1/4 mile away. Oh yes, she was ticketed for drunk driving.

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Anonymous

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April 2003
305,205 posts

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:02 PM

As long as the public has some sort of access to the right-of-way, these things will always happen.

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Sterling1

Member since
February 2002
From: Traveling in Middle Earth
795 posts

Posted by Sterling1 on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:08 PM

We(railfans) wonder why the majority of average Joes and Janes find us strange, ***, eccentric, etc. . . .
Matt

"There is nothing in life that compares with running a locomotive at 80-plus mph with the windows open, the traction motors screaming, the air horns fighting the rush of incoming air to make any sound at all, automobiles on adjacent highways trying and failing to catch up with you, and the unmistakable presence of raw power. You ride with fear in the pit of your stomach knowing you do not really have control of this beast." - D.C. Battle [Trains 10/2002 issue, p74.]

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MP57313

Member since
June 2001
From: L A County, CA, US
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Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:28 AM

How "out of it" do you have to be to try to drive across a rail yard?

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oskar

Member since
August 2003
1,092 posts

Posted by oskar on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:35 PM

she must have thought of a short cut (that came right in the middle of a CN yard)

kevin

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tree68

Member since
December 2001
From: Northern New York
25,006 posts

Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:56 PM

On a local industrial siding, a resident tired of waiting for the switching that was going on and decided to drive his compact 4WD pickup across the track a hundred or so feet from the crossing. He didn't make it over. No collision with the train (it wasn't moving). I overheard the engineer say on the radio that it was the darndest thing he'd ever seen...

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locomutt

Member since
September 2003
From: Louisville,Ky.
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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:45 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sterling1

We(railfans) wonder why the majority of average Joes and Janes find us strange, ***, eccentric, etc. . . .
Matt

While realizing that "Railfans" are a different 'breed' of people;I am wondering
about your choice of words describing said people.
I'm not sure that 'certain' words are appropriate.

Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!

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Anonymous

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April 2003
305,205 posts

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:50 PM

a few years back i remember in the news a judge(yes, a judge) driving drunk making a right turn down some railroad tracks...the ex-'Q west of mendota, IL i believe....getting stuck and then refusing to blow when the cop got there. with all her political pull (making a certain gesture with my fist) all she got out of it was that she couldn't try DUI cases anymore....

a while after that i read in the police reports in the paper that some guy refused to blow when he was pulled over. it was quoted specifically in the paper as the man saying..."if judge so and so doesn't have to blow, i don't have to either!". he was promptly arrested and taken to jail. funny how things work, eh?!

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