• Teenager Dies Saving His Girlfriend From an Oncoming Train
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[QUOTE=Someguy13;44343043]Overconfidence is a deadly trait. I hope you'll understand it before it's too late[/QUOTE] wow you guys are something else just because i use the railroad tracks as a shortcut like everyone else in my country, that doesn't mean i'm not a cautious person.
People would be surprised, trains can be sneaky little bastards at times. At least here in the UK you don't hear trains coming until its quite close, and if you're on the track and the train is behind you its usually too late.
[QUOTE=Hell-met;44339445]fairly certain you would feel the ground shaking regardless of noise something's really wrong in this[/QUOTE] Drugs. It's the only explanation.
This doesn't make sense. I live next to a huge 3-way station, they''re literally there everyday, and I can hear them a mile away through town whenever they come through. Even if it's just one.
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;44344948]People would be surprised, trains can be sneaky little bastards at times. At least here in the UK you don't hear trains coming until its quite close, and if you're on the track and the train is behind you its usually too late.[/QUOTE] especially the higher speed ones, if you're anywhere near cars then you can't hear properly until it's very close and if it comes round the corner behind you you have basically no time to react
Just a week or two ago we had a some teen walking down the tracks and got hit from behind, his body got stuck under the train and was drug for a mile. His poor mother didn't have enough to bury he had to be cremated.
There are a lot of train tracks around my town and they serve as very direct paths through otherwise impassable woods. My friend and I learned how to read the signals so we could tell which way the trains are traveling, and we only walk on the tracks when we know the train will be coming toward us so we can get out of the way. Otherwise we go along the mound, which is annoying but much less deadly. Sometimes you don't hear them until they're on you, it depends on atmospheric conditions I guess.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44341907]it may not be the norm in Germany, but it is here in Canadialand[/QUOTE] That's because you have fucking free healthcare and anyone hit by a train will just go to a hospital and get better
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44344703]wow you guys are something else just because i use the railroad tracks as a shortcut like everyone else in my country, that doesn't mean i'm not a cautious person.[/QUOTE] i don't walk along railroad tracks.
lets just put aside how dumb it was that they were walking on the tracks for a second and realize how much he fucking loved this girl.
Never knew walking on the tracks was common at all, here in NYC there isn't much advantage to doing so... Unless you enjoy rats, or something. Only the young kids trying to be cool really do it, and even then its rare.
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44341925]what you dont even feel the least bit bad when a skydiver dies? thats a shitty ass mentality [/QUOTE] if a random person willingly jumps out of a plane, unprepared, and dies I could give a fuck that isn't having a shitty mentality. and if you walk on train tracks, towards the train, and you die, I won't care. that isn't having a shitty mentality. people in general need to be smarter.
What a hero
[QUOTE=Paramud;44345266]That's because you have fucking free healthcare and anyone hit by a train will just go to a hospital and get better[/QUOTE] Except there usually isn't enough left of whoever gets hit by a train to get better in the first place. [editline]25th March 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=HybridTheroy;44341925]what you dont even feel the least bit bad when a skydiver dies? thats a shitty ass mentality [editline]24th March 2014[/editline] 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] This is the kind of mentality that gets people killed in the first place, genius. Is it really worth your life to try and save a few minutes? This is what I was taught, and this is what I'll live by, since it's the sensible thing to do. Oh, and I've personally had to recover the remains of a guy from a train accident, so it served as a stark enough reminder of what could happen to me. Every other day, somebody dies in this country because they're too damn stubborn to understand that [i]it's not safe to go around wandering on train tracks, shortcut or no shortcut.[/i]
You don't not hear a train coming, you don't not feel a train coming. This was planned suicide imo
One should remember that common sense should not be replaced by "for my convenience". People doing that really do put themselves at risk and sometimes leads to tragic ends.
[QUOTE=Soukuw;44347372]You don't not hear a train coming, you don't not feel a train coming. This was planned suicide imo[/QUOTE] I worked at a railway company for quite a time and repaired trains. Some of them are nearly soundless..
Why didn't they just get off the tracks?
[QUOTE=C.Barkington;44347752]I worked at a railway company for quite a time and repaired trains. Some of them are nearly soundless..[/QUOTE] Here in the UK, our electric tilting trains move very fast and are really quiet. For example in this video, you can hardly hear anything until the train is upon you. [video=youtube;keyMhUedsxU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keyMhUedsxU[/video]
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44347211] This is the kind of mentality that gets people killed in the first place, genius. Is it really worth your life to try and save a few minutes? This is what I was taught, and this is what I'll live by, since it's the sensible thing to do. Oh, and I've personally had to recover the remains of a guy from a train accident, so it served as a stark enough reminder of what could happen to me. Every other day, somebody dies in this country because they're too damn stubborn to understand that [i]it's not safe to go around wandering on train tracks, shortcut or no shortcut.[/i][/QUOTE] But it's legitimately not a big deal and not as dangerous as you're making it out to be. Maybe in your country they use trains for everything and are super silent and they travel at the speed of sound. But in my country, we only have freights, the whistle is sounded like every 30 seconds, and at a lot of turns it goes slow enough to hop on the thing. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("dont evade your ban" - Swebonny))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=hybrid_theory;44349135]But it's legitimately not a big deal and not as dangerous as you're making it out to be. Maybe in your country they use trains for everything and are super silent and they travel at the speed of sound. But in my country, we only have freights, the whistle is sounded like every 30 seconds, and at a lot of turns it goes slow enough to hop on the thing.[/QUOTE] Most of our mainline trains run at 125MPH, even round corners as they tilt, and even our lower capacity single track branches can run upto 80-100MPH, and especially with the electrified trains the earliest warning you get is the hissing of the rails at which point it's really too late. Even our freight trains can run [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ocAim_9qU"]pretty fast[/URL].
[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] Except a car could slow down easier and/or drive around me if I was walking in the middle of the road, a train could not. Really, car crashes are more common because so many people drive a car, whereas wayyy less people walk around on train tracks
[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] That's the whole point, oblivious people might not hear the train coming. Even though you, and many other people might have enough caution to walk on train tracks their whole lives and not get hit, that doesn't mean it's okay to say it's a good idea because then oblivious people will listen to you and end up like the kids in the article.
All this talk about hearing an incoming train reminds me of that Network rail PSA / game to did about this issue. ([url=http://www.youtube.com/user/networkrail/TrackTest]Link[/url])
[QUOTE=a dumb bear;44340213]last time I checked cars don't take ages to come to a stop and don't have any where near as much momentum as a train so idk man[/QUOTE] ..He's right though. Cars are way more dangerous than trains and more people die from them, using them as shortcuts IS fine if you aware of your surroundings and aware of the train schedules, which you will be if you are frequently walking on them. [editline]27th March 2014[/editline] Im really surprised, people can take risks and still be cautious about it. I'll walk the tracks here because I know the times they run, it's a small town here and either side of the track is fine to walk on. If I didn't know the area, trains, tracks or schedule I wouldn't walk it. It's all about risk assessment, it's not about not doing things because it could happen. [editline]27th March 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Wyvers;44350423]That's the whole point, oblivious people might not hear the train coming. Even though you, and many other people might have enough caution to walk on train tracks their whole lives and not get hit, that doesn't mean it's okay to say it's a good idea because then oblivious people will listen to you and end up like the kids in the article.[/QUOTE] ^
I don't know what charcoal-powered trains are used elsewhere, but here I see the train before I hear it. Well, at least the passenger-trains (which is 99% of the trains) are all electric, going at 100+mph (160km/h). I used to clean up a construction sites as a summer-job, right next to a train-track and every single time a train passed I only noticed it when it zoomed past me, unless I was facing the direction it came from. Law even required that we had one person specifically looking out for trains since some of the stuff we had to clean up was very close to the tracks. This experience made me fear train-tracks and never get near them.
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