That wouldn't have gone over well today...
Any pictures of the train wreck? Too bad the kids hadn't noticed the propane tanks. Good thing the train didn't make it.
IMO that goes beyond prank. Way beyond it.
Dan
Hindsight wipes clean so many windows.
Please keep this potentially thread-killing information away from the "Trains for Civil Defense" area...
Thanks,
Phil
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Newyorkcentralfan You're not going to believe this one. http://www.danshamptons.com/content/danspapers/issue13_2008/03.html
You're not going to believe this one. http://www.danshamptons.com/content/danspapers/issue13_2008/03.html
You're right, I don't. Good story though.
Way off subject, but the car in the cafeteria reminded me of something. While on leave in Paris in 1945 Dad took a pic in of the Eiffel Tower. The Tower had a USAAF B-17 bomber parked underneath it. How did it get there?? Was it disassembled and then reassembled, or did they take the wings off and tow it thru the streets?? I've wondered about that for years.
I don't really believe the train part, but the one about the car I do, because of some pranks we pulled in school. One time, me and a few other guys picked up one of our coach's VW and put it in the gym lobby. They never did figure out who did it, but they had some suspensions.
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Myself personally I never was a big fan of "pranks"-for it seems that nothing good ever came of them, & a lot of times even worse consequences were the result.
Providing the train re-routing story is true, it was a -very- good thing it wasn't traveling at a faster speed. Sometime back I was reading about a similar incident on the EL that took place here in northeast Ohio a little over 35 years ago. The outcome was a little more serious. Granted the culprits were much younger, but even so...
I don't agree with pranks that compromise safety..but other pranks are fine. One prank that went a little too far: Back in 1988 I worked at a trucking terminal in Montreal. The terminal manager made himself quite disagreeable to the rank and file, and this opened himself up to a prank at his expense.
He drove a VW Rabbit at the time, and one afternoon while he was away with a customer for the afternoon we decided to take his car and (using a ramp adjoining the terminal) load it into an empty trailer. The idea was that he would think his car stolen before we finally told him where it was.
Well..like I said..it went too far. After loading his car into a box trailer we went back to work and forgot about it. Several hours later Toronto terminal called asking for some empty trailers...So that trailer...with the terminal manager's car in it... accidently got sent to CN for piggyback to Toronto. By the time the terminal manager got back at around 4:00 pm his car was gone and enroute on a train.
Luckily his car arrived in Toronto intact (good thing his hand brake worked well)...and I was sent over to pick it up and to drive it back to Montreal...no harm done.
Things like this have happened. I have read of a few times this have happened. One that I have a link to happened in Oklahoma on the Rock Island.
http://rits.org/www/histories/CrowWreck/CrowWreck.html
Anyone doing something like this is going to get more than a good talking to from a parent.
Jeff
This one is not so much a prank, but a let's-put-this-on-tracks that got WAY out of hand. I read about it about 10-15 years ago in the Brookings, SD Register. In the 1880s some farm children found some big rail nuts in the ROW and put several of them on the rails west of Volga. Unfortunately, they put some on the outside of a curve and, you guess it, the locomotive bounced over them and with the outside wheels in the air the loco derailed. They realized the cause when the saw more nuts further up track. No one was injured and I imagine the chief suspects, (2 pre-teen boys) got disiplined by their parents. The area was sparsely settled at the time and SD wasn't even a state yet, so boys were the most likely culprits.
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Unsafe pranks are bad.... That said, My sophmore year in High School, The seniors were about to graduate (A week earlier than usual) ans one day, My swim class goes to get i nthe pool and notice that it is not quite normal.... They had taken clear Gelatin and added it to the water..... It set up amd filled the pool and all the piping....
RJ
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One man's prank is another man's vandalism.
This one's just sad. Philadelphia 2006 somebody shot 2 young girls because they were messing around with his car. He claims he only fired warning shots, I hope that all of us wonder why he didn't try a warning shout instead of a shot. Anyway what they were doing was writing in the snow on his windshield. Guess what they wrote? It was "Merry Christmas".
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Not rail, but a prank, nonetheless....
My mother relates a story about a hay wagon being disassembled and reassembled on a barn roof....
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jeffhergertThings like this have happened. I have read of a few times this have happened. One that I have a link to happened in Oklahoma on the Rock Island. http://rits.org/www/histories/CrowWreck/CrowWreck.html Anyone doing something like this is going to get more than a good talking to from a parent. Jeff
I know in HS we pulled 2 pranks while I was a senior. 1st one was agaisnt the Qback that thought he was above everyone. So one day the Oline before a game Flipped his new Geo Metro XFI his parents were HUGE ENVIROMENTALISTS EVEN THEN.so we flipped it onto its roof. We flipped it after draning the oil and coolant out of it first. 2nd one was we put the A/V directors car up on blocks in the Student Union area.
Prank? or Revenge?.... what would this fall under???
Back in grade school, I was having a tiff with a fellow student, and we were playing pranks on one another, well I decided to go as big as possible, and went to our local library, and pulled all of the magazing subscription cards out of every, and I mean, every magazine in the "Periodicals" section, took them home, and filled them out in his name and address, and checked the "Bill me later" box..... Then, in that same spirit, I went into my brother's bedroom, and after riffling through his "periodicals" I found what I was after, and sent some, um, how shall we say, "untoward merchandise" COD in his name, and a few other "periodicals" that were offering "free trial issues" in his name as well...... He came from a very reserved, and conservative, if you will, household...... From what I heard, my prank caused quite the uproar. I must have subscribed to 100 magazines or more, just from the library alone.... heh, heh. It's still my favorite story to tell.
Never had any other problems with him.
Did he ever figure it out?
The best one I participated in was in college--we of the fraternity "pledge class" decided to exact our revenge on various brothers. We put one guy's Corvair on the middle of the pedestrian bridge that divided the campus in two (not impossible to get off, but it took some delicate maneuvering (I know, because I did the maneuvering and letting in the clutch to get it there).
Our other pranks basically involved "kidnapping" and blindfolding frat members and taking them to places from which they had to find their way back to campus. (Being a local who knew the lay of the land, I was more than a little involved here, too.) We put one guy on an island in the middle of the river, another by a lookout tower on top of a hill in the National Forest, and so on (they eventually got even with me for my role in this).
Carl
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Well, now that you've teased us with it, tell us the rest of the story.
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