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<p>On the general subject of "journalism": </p><p>A few winters ago, some idiot and his son were out snowmobiling near the BNSF Hinckley Sub. I think the location was Bethel, MN (just up the tracks from where I live). The idiot father pulled across the tracks just ahead of a freight train and just barely made it (meaning he started when that train was way close), the son decided to follow, and was killed.</p><p>What burned me up was the local 10 PM news buzzard who got the assignment to go up there was going on about how there was only a pair of crossbucks at the dirt road crossing and, "<em>trains have been rolling through this busy intersection about every 15 minutes</em>". </p><p>What he failed to state was that trains had been held-up at Isanti, Cambridge, Brook Park, Grasston, Sandstone, Askov, Bruno, Nickerson, Foxboro, Boylston and Superior that whole evening while they cleaned-up the scene. He also never said a single word about the effect it'd have on the crew. I called KMSP about it and complained, and basically got the sympathetic ear with no action.</p>
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