On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:04:39 -0600, "B.B."
u wrote:
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Ignoramus14690 wrote:

I had a collision with a train once (no ****) and a seatbelt was very
helpful. I walked away with the car totaled, but some minor bruises
from the seatbelt. No, I was not drunk, I was not trying to ride
through the gate, etc, I simply did not notice the train. It was dark,
the crossing was unmarked, and at the time I did not realize that I in
fact needed eyeglasses. I hit it in the middle, luckily I hit a
railroad car carriage instead of going underneath the train. The train
was going slowly.

Heh. Here in Waco we've got a lot of train crossings, all diligently
labeled "Do not stop on tracks." The one I cross every day has a stop
sign just beyond, so four or five cars can stack up before the crossing.
I stopped behind the tracks because there was no room, and the clever
little **** behind me went around me and stopped in the gap, on the
tracks.
I honked, he gave me the finger. I honked a few more times, and he
got out to yell at me. Once he got to my window to start yelling I
pointed down the tracks to the train that was coming. About the time
that he turned around the gates came down.
He managed to get in his truck and move it in time, but it sure was
fun to watch him scramble over the gate, trip on the tracks and throw a
fit trying to get the door open. The train blasting its horn and
screeching along the tracks probably made him **** his pants a few times
in the process.
People still stop on those tracks every day. Speaking of Darwin, we
need to speed those trains up a little. (:

Darn, Missed... ;-P

That woulda taught him if he turned around just in time to see his
precious car getting T-boned by a train and tossed off in the
distance...

Unfortunately, the School Bus it got tossed into wouldn't agree that
it was a good thing. And train engineers dread stupid crap like that
- they can't do a thing about a vehicle obstruction on the tracks
except throw the brakes into Emergency and lean on the horn, and
wrecks haunt them for years no matter whether or not anyone was hurt.

In a tie between a 2-ton car and a 750,000 ton train - You Lose.
You can roll those dice 5 Million times, it still comes up snake-eyes.

Hell, I make a conscious effort - I don't even stop on CLOSED train
tracks. Even when they've chopped off the rails at the curb line and
put Used Car Lots on the vacant land on each side. I just don't want
to get used to the idea of EVER stopping on the tracks.

-- Bruce --
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Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
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