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Somebody in a truck took out the whole overhang at my local bank a while back. It wasn't off the building, but it was leaning over and needed to be rebuilt. The new one has a solid looking, brightly painted pipe mounted in front of it at the clearance height. And the Arby's next door to them got struck by lightning once while I was driving past during a really bad storm. There was a little "tower" on one side of the building just big enough to put the sign on, sticking up maybe three feet or so above the rest of the roof. It got hit, and when I drove the other way later it was definitely blackened. I guess the rest of the store was Ok, since that was the only part they needed to rebuild afterwards.
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at a local bank branch
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my dad was hit by a 'heavy rail' train (and survived) during a bad snow storm when he was out working on the tracks back in the 80s.  on the other hand, some classmates in high school were walking down the track and got killed by a light rail train. but anyway don't gently caress around with trains and don't be on/near the tracks while crossing any longer than you have to
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Did they see the train headlight in their phone, I wonder? Did it dawn on them at all what was about to happen before it did?
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I feel bad for the engineers and I feel horribly for those girl's families, so here's a similar oldie that we can all laugh about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Ck5BnJBeY How awesome is it that the engineer got to save a guy's life by kicking him in the face? That also may be the greatest youtube freeze frame ever.
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TVs Ian posted:Somebody in a truck took out the whole overhang at my local bank a while back. It wasn't off the building, but it was leaning over and needed to be rebuilt. The new one has a solid looking, brightly painted pipe mounted in front of it at the clearance height. What is it with bank overhangs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtiI7GyrHuw
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Charming man loses job after gloating over people killed by wildfires http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/12/alabama_man_loses_job_for_call.html quote:
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food court bailiff posted:This article owns. I like the fact that it spends more time on the train engineers these brain donors emotionally scarred for life than the actual idiots who got themselves killed. Plus the selfie with the oncoming train headlight I feel really bad for train conductors. I heard a stat somewhere that the ones here in Denmark are pretty much guaranteed to run over at least one idiot during their career. Like, they prepare them for it when they start out & all.
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Powaqoatse posted:I feel really bad for train conductors. I heard a stat somewhere that the ones here in Denmark are pretty much guaranteed to run over at least one idiot during their career. Like, they prepare them for it when they start out & all. I have a cousin who is an engineer with BNSF, and know several other conductors and engineers. Every single one of them has been in a fatality collision on the job, and it definitely fucks you up. Alcoholism and suicide are big problems in the profession.
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How can a dumbass just hang out on a railway like that? I legitimately don't understand it. Maybe I'm sheltered because there are no trains where I grew up but they don't exactly make their potential as mile-long, five thousand-ton meat grinders a secret.
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Mak0rz posted:How can a dumbass just hang out on a railway like that? I legitimately don't understand it. Maybe I'm sheltered because there are no trains where I grew up but they don't exactly make their potential as mile-long, five thousand-ton meat grinders a secret. My friends and I used to hang out by the train tracks as kids. Busy ones too, which ironically is probably why none of us ever got hit. If you grew up around tracks that get used like once every three months I could see not thinking there's ever any danger.
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Solice Kirsk posted:My friends and I used to hang out by the train tracks as kids. Busy ones too, which ironically is probably why none of us ever got hit. If you grew up around tracks that get used like once every three months I could see not thinking there's ever any danger. I feel like here in Iowa it's the opposite, people are so used to trains that they start to respect them less.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Like tell them they look bad in black or that they're bad singers? Don't do that! They're already under a lot of pressure.
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The Nards Pan posted:Don't do that! They're already under a lot of pressure. Yeah, you have to tread lightly
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Man, I feel like Hillary's campaign could have remade this ad with 70% of the same dialogue.  Train chat: I don't spend much time around train tracks, but one day I was just going for a walk around my area and wound up behind the tree line walking along a railroad track, a couple feet away because I had headphones on and I'm not an idiot who walks where trains go, especially if I'm hampering one of my senses. A small train eventually trundled past and I remember the intent stares from the conductor and whoever was next to him. At the time I thought it was a little weird but brushed it off, but in retrospect I bet they were on high alert that I didn't do something stupid like suicide on it or try and hop a ride. Fun fact: Train hopping loses it's mystique once your traveling buddy doesn't quite make the hop and gets chewed up by the wheels. Or so sayeth my grunge punk friend from college.
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LawfulWaffle posted:Man, I feel like Hillary's campaign could have remade this ad with 70% of the same dialogue. They did, with the same guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYKFRV34kY
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Jose posted:don't stand on train tracks to take a selfie Terrible tragedy and all, sympathy for the family... But that last girl is the oldest looking 13 year old. I thought it was the mom at first.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Terrible tragedy and all, sympathy for the family... I didn't want to be the one to say it
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I pegged them as English from the picture, but nope, Utah.
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Mak0rz posted:How can a dumbass just hang out on a railway like that? I legitimately don't understand it. Maybe I'm sheltered because there are no trains where I grew up but they don't exactly make their potential as mile-long, five thousand-ton meat grinders a secret. Because people are stupid and think "Trains are loud, i will not get hit because i'll hear it ahead of time". Stand near some tracks that get commuter trains like Amtrak; listen to how god drat quiet it is until it's right next to you. During the summer I witnessed more than my share of kids just standing on tracks doing that stupid pokemon game, i yelled at some to get off them but hey i'm just a dude in a construction vest and I don't know anything.
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Hot Smart ARYAN Girl posted:I pegged them as English from the picture, but nope, Utah. Amazing how much a 13 year old meth head from Utah looks like an everyday 40 year old woman from the UK
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Also, NIMBYS have ways of designating "quiet zones" in certain areas which restrict the train horns. Engineers (or their companies) can get fined for unwarranted tooting in these areas. Since the train is only sounding its horn in an emergency it's more likely someone can get hit by not hearing the approach.
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Data Graham posted:I didn't want to be the one to say it Me neither. Hate to speak ill of the dead but that was a drat hard 13 assuming the names were in the same order as the girls. e: Also, wow, try reading between these lines: quote:John raced back when the train finally stopped about a quarter mile down the track. The first girl he saw had no pulse and it was clear a second girl was no longer alive. John heard 13-year-old Savannah near the railroad crossing. She was hurt and agitated, but alive. In lighter news, my local subreddit posted a video of a burglar getting arrested. The dumb bastard saw that there were security cameras around outside, still broke in, then hung around for half an hour until the cops show up and  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_YUw7KxrZk Should probably turn your volume down, there's a 'hilarious' soundtrack laid over most of it. Takes No Damage has a new favorite as of 21:29 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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Takes No Damage posted:In lighter news, my local subreddit posted a video of a burglar getting arrested. The dumb bastard saw that there were security cameras around outside, still broke in, then hung around for half an hour until the cops show up and No kidding, even at 50% volume the screeching of the recorder was annoying to listen to.
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Not sure if this is more dangerous than Colin Furze's invention. Except the hammock was an advert so it was probably on a wire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k
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Krispy Kareem posted:Terrible tragedy and all, sympathy for the family... Reminds me of my Grandma's favorite blonde joke. "Two blondes were walking in the woods when the came across some tracks. One said they were deer tracks, the other replied they were obviously bear tracks. They were still arguing when the train hit them."
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Takes No Damage posted:Me neither. Hate to speak ill of the dead but that was a drat hard 13 assuming the names were in the same order as the girls. Reminds me of the recent accident at Dreamworld where the ambulance officers called the victims injuries "incompatible with life"; the medical term for they got hosed up. 1970's or Greece?
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Slugnoid posted:1970's or Greece? gotta be a movie still. It's too clean to be a 70s photo, and there's too few ships in the background to be from Greece.
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Jose posted:don't stand on train tracks to take a selfie by the way, this article links to one of the shittiest public safety ads imaginable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMg0bU2wPe8
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Slugnoid posted:Reminds me of the recent accident at Dreamworld where the ambulance officers called the victims injuries "incompatible with life"; the medical term for they got hosed up. I remember some story about an EMT goon dealing with a dispatcher who got really anal-retentive about using that phrase until they retorted with something to the effect of "his head is in a different room than the rest of his body".
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Takes No Damage posted:
Getting killed is annoying.
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Sloober posted:Because people are stupid and think "Trains are loud, i will not get hit because i'll hear it ahead of time". I was in Germany and happened to be near a rail crossing. The only sound an approaching train made was the pinging of the track, which I figured out was an approaching train only when the crossing arms and bells went off. When the train went by it was only the rush of air and a barely audible hiss of steel wheels on the steel track. If I had been absorbed in my phone and there hadn't been a crossing, my experience would have been "nothing nothing nothing MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN nothing nothing nothing".
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Getting killed is annoying. quote:Doctors in a Salt Lake City-area hospital discovered Savannah had more than a dozen broken bones, internal bleeding, blood clots and a severe brain injury. The 13-year-old's injuries were too great and she died three days after the accident.  At least the others were killed instantly.
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Sloober posted:Because people are stupid and think "Trains are loud, i will not get hit because i'll hear it ahead of time". The problem wasn't that the train was quiet. The problem is they were standing next to a westbound train - on the eastbound tracks. I'm sure the noise of the westbound train drowned out anything the eastbound guys could have done. UP said, the girls... posted:
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When a train blasts its horn, it carries. Maybe if you're in perfect downtrack you can't hear it, but it does carry. I grew up near a crossing & the crossing bells completely disappear from my ears, but that horn when the conductor tries to warn an idiot? its loud as gently caress.
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alucinor posted:The problem wasn't that the train was quiet. The problem is they were standing next to a westbound train - on the eastbound tracks. I'm sure the noise of the westbound train drowned out anything the eastbound guys could have done. Point I was making is don't stand in spots that provide a possibility of a train running you over.
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Sloober posted:Point I was making is don't stand in spots that provide a possibility of a train running you over. It's like those stories of tourists falling off cliffs trying to take selfies, only somehow stupider
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BOOTY-ADE posted:It's like those stories of tourists falling off cliffs trying to take selfies, only somehow stupider Wasn't there some place in Peru where people were essentially leaping to their death to take selfies? EDIT: Yep. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...p-machu-picchu/ quote:He was posing for a mid-leap photo when he fell off Machu Picchu mountain, which overlooks the ancient Incan citadel of the same name. quote:A day earlier, a South Korean tourist fell to his death while taking a selfie in the north of Peru. The tourist plunged more than 1,600 feet off the Gocta waterfall in the Amazonas region Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 06:59 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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