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[canoncityxp]

tangerine-jack ,  I'm with you 100%. 

  I have zero tolerance for those who commit crimes against civilized society......especially those with warlord tendensies.  Eliminate the cable tv room, the excersize room and the sports facilities in prisons and replace them with something involving HARD labor.  Facilities too crowded ? Build on.  Death row log-jammed ? Stop whining about how the injection might inflict discomfort to the perp. Obviously "bleeding hearts" have never been a victim of these _______. (fill in the blank).  Low orbit punt ? Yeah, just another version of their "mailbox baseball".

I'd like to believe that the suggestion about sending them over to the sandbox meant to use them to occupy the lead humvee or other high risk task.  The media fails to promote the fact that those who serve in the all volunteer armed forces are quality human beings who deserve 10x more of the respect and 100x more of the equipment support than they currently receive.

Crewmen :  Please, please, stay inside, lock the doors and call for backup.

[BRAKIE]

Engineers of old-like my Grandfather would have blown the whistle and continue to move after all he has a schedule to keep.A steam locomotive or any locomotive has a tenancy to move people once they see its not going to stop.You see self preservation kicks in.

[BRAKIE]

As a UTU member, I would not leave the eng cab regardless of how many crewmembers are on the head end. Lock the doors , close windows & call 911. Too many nuts out there and its not worth giving your life up for the rr.

When I worked on the railroad we would use hammers,coupler pins and anything else we had on hand to defend ourselves should the need arise.

[trainboyH16-44]

Engineers of old-like my Grandfather would have blown the whistle and continue to move after all he has a schedule to keep.A steam locomotive or any locomotive has a tenancy to move people once they see its not going to stop.You see self preservation kicks in.

Try that nowadays, and you'd get your boots sued off!  Yes, they knew they shouldn't be there, yes, they saw the train coming, yes, the engineer was blowing the horn, yes, they got hit by a train due to their own stupidity....let's fine the railroad several million dollars because the engineer didn't stop!

[BRAKIE]

Engineers of old-like my Grandfather would have blown the whistle and continue to move after all he has a schedule to keep.A steam locomotive or any locomotive has a tenancy to move people once they see its not going to stop.You see self preservation kicks in.

Try that nowadays, and you'd get your boots sued off!  Yes, they knew they shouldn't be there, yes, they saw the train coming, yes, the engineer was blowing the horn, yes, they got hit by a train due to their own stupidity....let's fine the railroad several million dollars because the engineer didn't stop!

 

I bet they will jump clear to save their life.Thats the way life is..NOBODY wants to die when you get right down to it that old self  preservation kicks in same for combat that's why you make yourself a small target even in a full out attack...

[BDT in Minnesota]

Engineers of old-like my Grandfather would have blown the whistle and continue to move after all he has a schedule to keep.A steam locomotive or any locomotive has a tenancy to move people once they see its not going to stop.You see self preservation kicks in.

Try that nowadays, and you'd get your boots sued off!  Yes, they knew they shouldn't be there, yes, they saw the train coming, yes, the engineer was blowing the horn, yes, they got hit by a train due to their own stupidity....let's fine the railroad several million dollars because the engineer didn't stop!

 

That engineer has an obligation for not only his own personal saftey, but the saftey of EVERYONE on that train.......I wouldn't stop either...

BDT

[Midnight Railroader]

Let's see.  You have 70 tons of metal around you and you are ten feet above them and you get out and confront them.  I suppose on day offs he goes to the bad part of town and confronts gangs also.  Sorry he got hurt but one of the stupidest things to have done I have ever heard of.

Plus, you have cell phones and radios to call for law enforcement--those guys with guns, you know?

[Newyorkcentralfan]

Deport them Punks kids to Iraq, that will teach them.

Yeah! We should do things just like the Soviet Union. During WW2 they had punishment battalions which they put in the front lines and let the Germans take care of the problem. Good thinking, comrade!

[Newyorkcentralfan]

My thought exactly! The whole incident could have been avoided had the engineer not stopped. 

Consider it an impromptu exam on Darwinism for the track walkers.

 

Engineers of old-like my Grandfather would have blown the whistle and continue to move after all he has a schedule to keep.A steam locomotive or any locomotive has a tenancy to move people once they see its not going to stop.You see self preservation kicks in.

[Newyorkcentralfan]

You don't announce that you ran them over on purpose to whomever is investigating the incident. Duh! As for not stopping. You just hit the brakes too late to make a difference.

 

 

Try that nowadays, and you'd get your boots sued off!  Yes, they knew they shouldn't be there, yes, they saw the train coming, yes, the engineer was blowing the horn, yes, they got hit by a train due to their own stupidity....let's fine the railroad several million dollars because the engineer didn't stop!