I have seen stupid, but then there was this....

[vsmith]

 http://youtu.be/nw44Zx0jP6s

This takes the cake, and the drinks, and the silverware 

[Firelock76]

To paraphrase Abe Lincoln:

"God must love fools, He made so many of them!"

[cacole]

They must have thought the train could swerve around them, or that it could stop on a dime.

[caldreamer]

Too bad he did not stay in the car.  He would have earned a well deserved Darwin award.

[ACY Tom]

For that particular car, I think the jumper cables are now superfluous.

[overall]

Not that it matters now, but, why didn't they put the stalled car in neutral and roll it off the tracks to some safe place where they could put the jumper cables on it and start it?

[Mookie]

overall

Not that it matters now, but, why didn't they put the stalled car in neutral and roll it off the tracks to some safe place where they could put the jumper cables on it and start it?

Duh!

[Semper Vaporo]

I am still not entirely sure which car was stalled and whether it was the stalled car or the "helper" car that got... uh... remodeled.

[vsmith]

overall

Not that it matters now, but, why didn't they put the stalled car in neutral and roll it off the tracks to some safe place where they could put the jumper cables on it and start it?

Maybe, just maybe, because they were idiots? 

[Euclid]

Maybe the idiots got the insurance company to buy them a new car that starts better. 

[ACY Tom]

Hmmmmmmm. If the stalled car was not hit, and the "rescue" vehicle was hit, then I wonder whether they ever got the stalled one moved. Maybe it's still there, waiting for another idiot to give it a jump.

[Norm48327]

overall

Not that it matters now, but, why didn't they put the stalled car in neutral and roll it off the tracks to some safe place where they could put the jumper cables on it and start it?

That would require thought. Obviously, they weren't thinking.

[Deggesty]

Perhaps they did not know that one car was on a railroad track--or that trains use the track?

[BaltACD]

Well at least the one guy saw the train coming and pulled the other one out of the car and they retreated toward the direction the train was coming from.

[cacole]

Unfortunately, if they can find a sympathetic jury it will turn out to be the railroad's fault for having the nerve to run a train on their track and not swerve out of the way of the car.

[LensCapOn]

Personally, I loved the crunch sound... Wonder if the engine got hurt?

[petitnj]

1) I bet most drivers don't know that the car will roll in neutral (these days). 

2) If the battery dies in the new keyless cars, will it still go in neutral so it can be rolled? 

[BaltACD]

petitnj

1) I bet most drivers don't know that the car will roll in neutral (these days). 

2) If the battery dies in the new keyless cars, will it still go in neutral so it can be rolled? 

Neither of those cars appeared new enough to be keyless.

[Murphy Siding]

BaltACD

petitnj

1) I bet most drivers don't know that the car will roll in neutral (these days). 

2) If the battery dies in the new keyless cars, will it still go in neutral so it can be rolled? 

Neither of those cars appeared new enough to be keyless.

  So the easiest way to push it is with a train?

[Lake]

overall

Not that it matters now, but, why didn't they put the stalled car in neutral and roll it off the tracks to some safe place where they could put the jumper cables on it and start it?

As stated: To paraphrase Abe Lincoln: "God must love fools, He made so many of them!"

[Mookie]

"snip"  So the easiest way to push it is with a train?    "snip"

[tree68]

Mookie

"snip"  So the easiest way to push it is with a train?    "snip"

Been watching too many "Back to the Future" movies.....