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$24M verdict upheld in railroad burn case

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I have a distate for warning signs.I was going to remain silent and read on this thread... but the Boat Scenario; well I have to call it theft boat, willful abandonment and probably a hazard to navigation along whatever else one can fit onto the charges at the 17 year old boat thief.Back to my distate for signs... some of the cars I have driven are so overly decalled with bright orange or yellow warnings and "Do-nots" in US, Spanish and French languages and sometimes even other languages. Roll over risk, etc. Just being inside one of these vehicles is disturbing. Just being inside a car or airplane, ship or rowboat in a harbor means that you are going on a journey and sometimes you dont live to complete that journey... either because you made a mistake or several factors combine to have a incident or death/maim situation.Railroads are dangerous. Always have been and always will be.Bottom line, those two teens have no business being on railroad property and sadly they got what they deserved for putting themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. If they had to learn about electricity and how it can arc or jump many feet from one conductive object to a GROUND Object... sometimes that ground is YOU.Wished they learned that fact in school, such as our education system is and apparent failing nuclear familial bonds that keep children out of harms way long enough to reach 18 years of old.If the Law was properly applied to these young people they know not to go near railroad, know not to get near wires hanging in the sky and find another alternative places to get a better view.I dont see these kids climbing a tree on the street corner next to a pole with wires and transformers hanging off it. No, they had to do it from a railcar that so happens to have electrical power above it.You think these kids who may have lived or were raised in that area long enough to understand that there is danger on those tracks. Certianly ive been near the corridor as a child and you learn very quickly how fast and silent those trains are, when they are upon you is not the time to be regreeting not using that bridge or crosswalk nearby... those are usually shielded and festooned with signs showing cartoon people frying in wires and sparks indicating high voltage.With that in mind, is it fair to lay neglect of a few missing signs on a railroad doorstep when such a railroad has thousands of miles of responsibility? The Union Pacific recently put up 12 NO TRESPASSING signs about 40 feet apart in my town on both sides of the double track main. Apparently there are people "Jay tracking" instead of using the carefully constructed sidewalks laid just for them on both of the crossings.The article talks about how one had to endure the horror of watching someone's clothes be on fire. Ive been there and done that, the first problem is to put out the fire and then summon help... however the trucker in me says this:Dummy! You should NEVER have allowed that wire to light you up on fire.The best risk management is not to be placing yourself into that sitaution in the first place. Apparently at that age that is the last thing on the mind.Tomes of Law in writing can never compenstate for acts brought on by ignorance or stupidity.
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