Teenager Dies Saving His Girlfriend From an Oncoming Train
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[QUOTE=Ilwrath;44340287]They're called "train tracks" for a reason you know, not "pedestrian tracks" or "walkway tracks". They're not there so that you can take your shortcut and be where you want to be a sliver faster, they're there so that massive fucking behemoths of steel move shit from point A to point B.[/QUOTE]
What they are called is irrelevant. It's a fucking shortcut, and the chance of getting hit by a train is extremely low, regardless if this is a thread about people getting hit by a train or not.
Think of it this way, there is not one single recorded incident of someone being run over by a train in the city i live in (heck, the whole of cape breton). Yet there is plenty of graveyard space filled due to car crashes.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340366]What they are called is irrelevant. It's a fucking shortcut, and the chance of getting hit by a train is extremely low, regardless if this is a thread about people getting hit by a train or not.
Think of it this way, there is not one single recorded incident of someone being run over by a train in the city i live in (heck, the whole of cape breton). Yet there is plenty of graveyard space filled due to car crashes.[/QUOTE]
the point is not that walking on train tracks would instagib you, but rather the [I]only way to be statistically likely to get hit by a bloody train would be to walk on the tracks regularly in the first place.[/I]
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340366]What they are called is irrelevant. It's a fucking shortcut, and the chance of getting hit by a train is extremely low, regardless if this is a thread about people getting hit by a train or not.
Think of it this way, there is not one single recorded incident of someone being run over by a train in the city i live in (heck, the whole of cape breton). Yet there is plenty of graveyard space filled due to car crashes.[/QUOTE]
How the fuck is it irrelevant? "Lol it's not a highway, it's a shortcut"
It's that backwards way of thought that "There's probably no trains here today" that enables these accidents in the first place. It's an area specifically forbidden for pedestrians due to the dangereous nature of walking infront of such insanely heavy machinery, so how about you stay out of there instead of thinking that accidents never happen to [I]you[/I].
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[I]IN ADDITION[/I], in several areas, the tracks could electrocute and kill you instantly, the idiocracy just extends to "There's probably no trains here today, better not touch the third rail", when nobody should be there in the first place.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340366]Yet there is plenty of graveyard space filled due to car crashes.[/QUOTE]
walking in the middle of the road would eventually get you killed too
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;44340395]the point is not that walking on train tracks would instagib you, but rather the [I]only way to be statistically likely to get hit by a bloody train would be to walk on the tracks regularly in the first place.[/I][/QUOTE]
That's kind of bloody obvious, dude. I don't know why you feel you need to make that point.
The only way to be statistically likely to fall off a rope bridge is to regularly use rope bridges in the first place. You don't call someone who fell off a rope bridge and died a moron for using rope bridges to begin with and say "hah, as expected, something that was eventually going to happen, happened!"
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340236]Yeah, and there's also not thousands of trains passing through each intersection every hour? what's you point? We're talking about probability here not comparing situations.
Take a note from Vsauces latest video about risk and how we think things that happened most recently have a higher chance of happening again. You think getting hit by a train is some inevitable thing that is highly likely because you just heard about it happening. think about how many car wrecks there were in the US alone just today.[/QUOTE]
Seriously? The amount of people driving in the US every day is way larger than the amount of people walking on train tracks every day, you can hardly compare the two. I bet that the probability of you getting hit by a train when walking on the tracks is higher than dying in a car crash. And my point is that it's more dangerous walking on a train track because it's harder for a train to stop, and if you get hit by a train you're fucking dead, where as if you get hit by a car you have a chance of surviving.
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[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340463]That's kind of bloody obvious, dude. I don't know why you feel you need to make that point.
The only way to be statistically likely to fall off a rope bridge is to regularly use rope bridges in the first place. You don't call someone who fell off a rope bridge and died a moron for using rope bridges to begin with and say "hah, as expected, something that was eventually going to happen, happened!"[/QUOTE]
You said that point was bloody obvious yet you asked what my point was ok lol
[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;44340405]How the fuck is it irrelevant? "Lol it's not a highway, it's a shortcut"
It's that backwards way of thought that "There's probably no trains here today" that enables these accidents in the first place. It's an area specifically forbidden for pedestrians due to the dangereous nature of walking infront of such insanely heavy machinery, so how about you stay out of there instead of thinking that accidents never happen to [I]you[/I].
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[I]IN ADDITION[/I], in several areas, the tracks could electrocute and kill you instantly, the idiocracy just extends to "There's probably no trains here today, better not touch the third rail", when nobody should be there in the first place.[/QUOTE]
I think its kind of a given that if you go onto a train track expecting it to be impossible for a train to come you've got a few screws lose. The area is definitely not "specifically forbidden" as its used by pedestrians as shortcuts and jogging routes all the time. Its a path through wooded area that also cuts massive corners. The benefits definitely outway the near non-existent (if you're not disabled) risks.
Wait, what? You guys don't walk on the tracks?
That's so weird, it's a thing my dad and I do fairly often. It's usually the only place to hike around here that isn't either private property or that doesn't have a bunch of people around.
He and I always see. hear, and feel the train coming from a mile away. We're very careful.
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You said that point was bloody obvious yet you asked what my point was ok lol[/QUOTE]
you obviously never read my post, because I said your point was bloody obvious and then said i didn't know why you felt the need to make it. My god i'm repeating myself here you're hopeless.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340463]That's kind of bloody obvious, dude. I don't know why you feel you need to make that point.
The only way to be statistically likely to fall off a rope bridge is to regularly use rope bridges in the first place. You don't call someone who fell off a rope bridge and died a moron for using rope bridges to begin with and say "hah, as expected, something that was eventually going to happen, happened!"[/QUOTE]
Because that analogy doesn't work. Rope bridges are usually laid where there is no alternative, while no one is making you take the shortcut over just walking another hundred feet down the road and taking the path parallel to the train tracks or just walking alongside them.
[QUOTE=Zatar963;44340515]Wait, what? You guys don't walk on the tracks?
That's so weird, it's a thing my dad and I do fairly often. It's usually the only place to hike around here that isn't either private property or that doesn't have a bunch of people around.
He and I always see. hear, and feel the train coming from a mile away. We're very careful.[/QUOTE]
because that's a completely normal thing to do. like, everybody does it except for facepunch apparently.
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[QUOTE=fishyfish777;44340529]Because that analogy doesn't work. Rope bridges are usually laid where there is no alternative, while no one is making you take the shortcut over just walking another hundred feet down the road and taking the path parallel to the train tracks or just walking alongside them.[/QUOTE]
Except the small town near my city that has a forked road with a river splitting it. if you want to get to the other road you can either take the ~*_+Pedestrian Designated+_*~ route and go around or cut right through via a path and rope bridge, saving a half hour of walking.
and i dont know about the train tracks in your area, but if you want to walk alongside its either down in the ditch filled with water or walking on the 40 degree slope which is far from good for your ankles.
It's funny really because the exact same mentality "It'll never happen to me/I'll always hear the train coming/I've done it hundreds of times" being pushed in this thread is most likely the exact same one that these teenagers had that's resulted in a family losing a loved one in this case.
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It's illegal here in the UK for good reason, along with other things people use the same mentality on such as driving whilst on the phone, not wearing seatbelts etc.
[QUOTE=rhx123;44340684]It's funny really because the exact same mentality "It'll never happen to me/I'll always hear the train coming/I've done it hundreds of times" being pushed in this thread is most likely the exact same one that these teenagers had that's resulted in a family losing a loved one in this case.
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It's illegal here in the UK for good reason, along with other things people use the same mentality on such as driving whilst on the phone, not wearing seatbelts etc.[/QUOTE]
except unless you're disabled or oblivious you're gonna know if a train is coming. and if you're on a train track expecting not to see a train then what the hell is wrong with you really
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340741]except unless you're disabled or oblivious you're gonna know if a train is coming. and if you're on a train track expecting not to see a train then what the hell is wrong with you really[/QUOTE]
Well how did these 2 get struck then.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44339023]walking the tracks can be quicker than the streets a lot of times. always use them as a shortcut
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that said its easy as fuck to hear a train. unless maybe the not-so-far off engine noise was masked by the crowd cheering at the little league game[/QUOTE]
What about following the tracks but keeping a few feet off to the side? Just don't stand on the damn tracks. If there's no space on the side to walk, then there's no space to jump out of the way!
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340741]except unless you're disabled or oblivious you're gonna know if a train is coming. and if you're on a train track expecting not to see a train then what the hell is wrong with you really[/QUOTE]
Well maybe they were oblivious and realized their mistake too late? At least the boy's decision was something we should be proud of.
Btw please don't get yourself killed
[QUOTE=dai;44339395]I'm always baffled by people getting hit by trains on foot. Even with a baseball game and traffic nearby, I still really can't wrap my head around it unless an article says they had headphones on or something. my high school's sports facilities were on the other side of tracks from the body of the school-
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and even with a football game going on (at the running track), I could hear [i]and feel[/i] the vrvrvrvrvrrvrvvrvr of a train before seeing it come out from behind the trees, moreso when it's freight than a metra but it's still extremely hard not to notice
it sucks they were in the wrong place at all, but I'm glad in the very least one was spared. Good on the guy[/QUOTE]
Holy fuck.
That's Antioch.
My bus route would always pass through there.
Here in the UK its a £2000 fine + possible imprisonment if you walk on the tracks.
Its a stupid thing to do, there are better methods of doing it. You should never walk on the tracks...
Our ones are electrified with a 750VDC rail on the inside and people have been shocked by the outside ones too when they arn't properly grounded.
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Mabye its different in the UK, but we have trains on the tracks all the time.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340538]because that's a completely normal thing to do. like, everybody does it except for facepunch apparently.[/quote]
I know no one that will walk down a train track thinking that it's a good and safe thing to do haha
It reminds me of when Mount St. Helen exploded, you could heart this massive explosion from the west, but the east had different elevations and wind currents muting out the explosion...it's amazing how sound travels.
[QUOTE=Saturn V;44340887]Well how did these 2 get struck then.[/QUOTE]
i dont know wtf im not omnipotent
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340538]because that's a completely normal thing to do. like, everybody does it except for facepunch apparently.
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It really isn't. Only maybe if you live in the country where a train only passes by once in an hour or so.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44338634]I feel sorry for them but for fuck sake if you have to take a walk on train tracks at least watch out for the damn trains![/QUOTE]
Trains are tricky predators, you never know where one might show up and pounce on you. You could be minding your own business, just walking down the tracks, and the next thing you know a train shows up unexpectedly.
are we suppose to sympathize with people walking on train tracks?
i mean honestly you're really dumb to die like that I'M SORRY.
get the fuck off the train tracks!
[QUOTE=Desuh;44341815]It really isn't. Only maybe if you live in the country where a train only passes by once in an hour or so.[/QUOTE]
it may not be the norm in Germany, but it is here in Canadialand
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44340538]because that's a completely normal thing to do. like, everybody does it except for facepunch apparently.
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Except the small town near my city that has a forked road with a river splitting it. if you want to get to the other road you can either take the ~*_+Pedestrian Designated+_*~ route and go around or cut right through via a path and rope bridge, saving a half hour of walking.
and i dont know about the train tracks in your area, but if you want to walk alongside its either down in the ditch filled with water or walking on the 40 degree slope which is far from good for your ankles.[/QUOTE]
i have never in my life even heard of someone walking on tracks to save time
[QUOTE=sYnced;44341849]are we suppose to sympathize with people walking on train tracks?
i mean honestly you're really dumb to die like that I'M SORRY.
get the fuck off the train tracks![/QUOTE]
what you dont even feel the least bit bad when a skydiver dies? thats a shitty ass mentality
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[QUOTE=deggemannen;44341923]i have never in my life even heard of someone walking on tracks to save time[/QUOTE]
idgaf lol i see people walking the tracks every god damn day and ive even done it myself. Saves you so much time when you'd rather not walk the sidewalks because they are a long route and it beats bushwacking too
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;44342075]You should do it more often[/QUOTE]
hhaah right on
dumb pleb
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A friend of mine lost his legs from an encounter with a train when we were young. We all had to go to this public park program during the summer months, and the counselors always told us to stay away from this one long hill because of "wolverines" but we all knew it was because of the train tracks. He asked me if I wanted to play with him that day and I couldn't because I had homework, the next day I found out what had happened.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44342120]hhaah right on
dumb pleb[/QUOTE]
Overconfidence is a deadly trait. I hope you'll understand it before it's too late
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