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To missouri... and Mike... and everyone else who seems to have a problem.. <br /> <br />I'm warnign you Exit out now if your so aginst Bad language.. <br /> <br />I'd love to know what the HECK (not the original word) is wrong with you too. Ed knows exactly what it's like to see someone get hit on the Tracks.. (sorry to say) he was a conductor at the time.. <br /> <br />I was an onlooker at another accidnet... <br />I had to watch a Mini-van get hit by a freight train moving at 65-70 MPH.. <br />There were 7 kids in that van... which one of you was there... Did any of you 2 rememebr seeing all the blood covering the various peices of the car? I suppose you guys then rememebr how as soon as the train hit.. how one of the kids went flying through the side window right? how they got tossed in the about a fott, maybe 2 feet off the ground and struck the block signal so hard they broke their back and died 5 minutes later? <br /> <br />Remeber there was not one.. 2..or even 3 people in this van <br /> <br />Their were 7 <br /> <br />Can you count that high? <br /> <br />I don't suppose you rememebr how the baby.. somehow got underneith the freight train.. and by the time the 22 car freight was done.. there was only a hand left on the tracks? <br /> <br />a 24 month old hand. <br /> <br />How the mother and father in the front seat.. exploded when they were hit... parts of them where eveywhere.. <br /> <br />I just sat in the car and waited for the train to end.. waited.. <br /> <br />and waited... <br /> <br />it felt like forever <br /> <br />I never knew a total of 7 people held so much blood.. i suppose both of you dim witts remember the clean up after... <br /> <br />they had to go body hunting? remeber that <br />Then you know...1 was found at the base of block signal 50-N. broken up back- Dead. <br />She slammed into that signal so hard.. she broke 3 of the 4 bolts holding that signal to the ground. <br /> <br />Factor in the inertia of that smart A$$, and what do you get? <br />how the HEL! does a Four year old toppel a signal? does that ilustrate to you the Force of this impact? WHERE you there, cuz both of you geniuses.. seem to know it all. <br />3 of the bodies never made it out of the car, so thats 1 + 3, plus the baby.. 5.. 2 more children were still unacounted for.. They never found them.. they presumed they were still in the car when it came to rest peaces of it almost a mile down the track.. <br /> <br />How many of you whitnessed this accident? <br />I did. <br />How many of you broke down when the CN locomotive backed up, and across the CN was a giant smear of blood? <br />I did. <br />How many of you later had to seek professional help? <br />I did. <br />I was only 16 at the time. Driving along.. i had just got my license. stopped behind an impatient van who misjuged the speed of an oncomming CN Freight train and.. got killed <br />Unlike Ed, i don't know what his reason was for crossing the gates.. The visisbility was perfect.. that day there was an 30 mile visibility.. if you took a telelescope you can see the train comming half an hour before it arrived.. <br />so why? <br /> <br />why did that driver put me through that? <br />They didn't pay for my councelling. <br /> <br />Do you know how hard it is to look your Girlfriend in the face after you've seen an accidnet like this? DO YOU? She was sitting in the passenger seat when it happened. <br /> <br />DO you know how hard it was to watch this.. with her sitting right there? <br /> <br />Do you know how hard it is to comfort someone when your crying yourself? <br /> <br />DO YOU KNOW how hard it is to break down in front of your Girlfriend? <br /> <br />DO YOU KNOW what it's like having to restrain her from going and doing soemthing like running on to the tracks? <br /> <br />I had to pull her away 5 hours later. She was crying non stop and throwing up, DOES THAT sound familiar?. It took an hour to get home.. every 5 minutes i had to stop so she could throw up outside the car.. <br /> <br />We made it home.. she stayed with me that night.. we didn't get any sleep... I watched her throw up about 35 times since the accident. We had jsut seen what no one ever wants to see, we had seen the ugly side to trains. we had seen the beast. <br /> <br />So missouri, If you don't know what the Fukc is happening, shut the *** up, alright? <br /> <br />Just so you know.. My girlfriend won't step foot on a train.. shell never visit me as long as i work on a train. <br /> <br />ED, i know how u feel. <br /> <br />So missouri, Mike, anyone else who wnats to put their name here: _______, you knew that all right? YOU WERE right there when it happened right? <br /> <br />You 2 just don't know. and if your lucky you never will. <br /> <br />Kev.
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