QUOTE: Originally posted by kevinstheRRman QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith Being interested in trains and such has taught me that BEING ON OR NEAR TRACKS IS DANGEROUS period! The problem is that people think of trains as just a "Big BUS" that can slow and stop like a bus, well, IT CAN'T! I read stories like this and SILVERCHAMPION's story and it saddens me when it happens and I feel terrible for the families, but DAMMIT it STUPID to hang around on railroad tracks! The circumstances around the subject story about the Surfliner happens out here on a daily basis. People using the tracks as a personal jogging path or shortcut to the beach or to just avoid the traffic on the streets. Now I have seen people doing just this from San Diego along the beach route to San Juan Capistrano and also up between Ventura, Santa Barbara and up to Goleta and every year we get a certain number of fatalities from trespassers. I wont even begin to talk about the Darwin Award winners joggin on the tracks with headphones on (at least one death per year!) What Are These People THINKING. Would they think of doing the same activites on a Highway? Well, I think I must be the shallowest hearted around when it comes to this, many people can cry me a river, but If your walking along near Train tracks.. (listen to the way that sounds... TRAIN + TRACKS) not people tracks, not Walking Tracks, not rom,an catholic church tracks, but TRAIN tracks, So my guess is, trains frequently occupy these so called "tracks" and it may not be a 100 Watt i dea to walk around them any sensible dim-witt knows this, and anyone who doesn't should have the head top of their skull sawed off, a pair of ferrets sent into the brain cavity and chase any ounce of sense this person has through the ears. Heartfelt on this idea? i think not, intentional stupidity goes around,. and it comes around.
QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith Being interested in trains and such has taught me that BEING ON OR NEAR TRACKS IS DANGEROUS period! The problem is that people think of trains as just a "Big BUS" that can slow and stop like a bus, well, IT CAN'T! I read stories like this and SILVERCHAMPION's story and it saddens me when it happens and I feel terrible for the families, but DAMMIT it STUPID to hang around on railroad tracks! The circumstances around the subject story about the Surfliner happens out here on a daily basis. People using the tracks as a personal jogging path or shortcut to the beach or to just avoid the traffic on the streets. Now I have seen people doing just this from San Diego along the beach route to San Juan Capistrano and also up between Ventura, Santa Barbara and up to Goleta and every year we get a certain number of fatalities from trespassers. I wont even begin to talk about the Darwin Award winners joggin on the tracks with headphones on (at least one death per year!) What Are These People THINKING. Would they think of doing the same activites on a Highway?
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