A 17 year old girl's legs were severed when she and three males attempted to "train hop" a northbound BNSF coal train.
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A 17-year-old college student's legs were severed at the knees after she fell while attempting to jump on a moving train on Monday.
Authorities said the Colorado State University student was 'train hopping' with three males between the ages of 17 and 20 when she slipped on the northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train around 1:35pm.
The teenager's name and condition have not yet been released.
...Oh how terrible and sad...! Why to young people expose themselves to such risks....Terrible, terrible....!
I know, we've all exposed ourselves to some danger in growing up....I suppose one just has to have some luck on his / her side.
Quentin
In life, it seems some people are meant to serve as examples.
Authorities say a woman was seriously injured while trying to board a train in Waterloo Monday afternoon.
Officers who were sent to the scene, near the intersection of Conger and Reed streets, around 2:30 p.m. Monday found Shvette Grubbs, 46, of Waterloo, alongside the tracks. The train had severed one of Grubbs’ legs, but she was talking to paramedics as she was loaded onto a stretcher.
http://thegazette.com/2011/09/06/woman-hurt-while-trying-to-board-train-in-waterloo/
From the mountains to the prairies, losing common sense loses limbs.
Victrola1 Authorities say a woman was seriously injured while trying to board a train in Waterloo Monday afternoon. Officers who were sent to the scene, near the intersection of Conger and Reed streets, around 2:30 p.m. Monday found Shvette Grubbs, 46, of Waterloo, alongside the tracks. The train had severed one of Grubbs’ legs, but she was talking to paramedics as she was loaded onto a stretcher. http://thegazette.com/2011/09/06/woman-hurt-while-trying-to-board-train-in-waterloo/ From the mountains to the prairies, losing common sense loses limbs.
Well. DRAT! I guess you can train the ignorant, but stupid is forever
Tragic nonethess. Does Operation Lifesaver only focus on crossing incidents or do they also cover other railroad hazards?
They cover all the issues...this is regarded as a trespasser issue.
http://oli.org/documents/LawEnforcementpresentation.pdf
Quick theory....
Steel rails are magnetic for stupid!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
mudchicken They cover all the issues...this is regarded as a trespasser issue. http://oli.org/documents/LawEnforcementpresentation.pdf
Precisely, and I sincerely hope she and her companions in this breach of boundaries take the time to ponder what they now share as a salutary ending....since it could have been so much worse...and to warn off others thinking of the same form of excitement.
17 year old college student....just off to school. Having fun. Life forever changed.
As a parent of a soon to be 17 year old this one hurts me.
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Another senseless incident that should have never happened. I feel for her family.
Senseless and dumbfounding.
I wonder if perhaps these young folks saw too many movies where the main characters jumped aboard moving freight trains with ease and assumed that it would be just as easy for them?!
Yet, if so, they probably didn't consider that most often those movies were filmed in the days when we still had 40ft and 50ft. boxcars with open slide doors and that professional stuntmen in top physical shape took the risks for the actors.
The real thing is nothing to mess with.
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AntonioFP45 Senseless and dumbfounding. I wonder if perhaps these young folks saw too many movies where the main characters jumped aboard moving freight trains with ease and assumed that it would be just as easy for them?! Yet, if so, they probably didn't consider that most often those movies were filmed in the days when we still had 40ft and 50ft. boxcars with open slide doors and that professional stuntmen in top physical shape took the risks for the actors. The real thing is nothing to mess with.
Maybe...I remember living on the edge when I was that age...stuff I wouldn't dare to do today. It's the nature of being young to push the boundaries.
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