The school bus rushed to the crossing BUT the arm was down AND the train was coming, so the driver sped across AND the train could not stop in time, BUT the bus narrowly made it, BUT she lost her job because there could have been carnage OR death.
But not unscathed! A few inches one way and there’s at least serious injury. A few inches the other way and no damage.
She quit before she could be fired.
Somehow I don’t think that’ll be enough to save her from prosecution or enough to convince anybody to ever hire her again. Not that folks are rushing out to hire 67 year olds.
It’s just a Bill, on Capitol Hill.
(OK, @kenobi_65 beat me to it)
The rail crossing right next to my apartment malfunctioned once, with the lights flashing but gates open and no train. And the number identifying the crossing was way out on the end of the gate, where I couldn’t read it from the ground. I had to tell them the street, which I guess they were able to look up.
My 'burb of ~80K people has a major north / south rail line running through it. Which cleaves the town pretty much in two right down the middle. We get several freights and ~20 passenger trains per day. The downtown area has 4 grade crossings within about 1.5 miles where boulevards of 2 or 3 lanes each way cross the tracks. Lots of traffic all day every day on those roads. The trains create minor backlogs every 30 minutes or so all day. The crossings have gates on both the inbound and outbound side of the tracks, raised islands, etc. It is very very difficult to evade the gates once they are down even in an off-road vehicle. People get crunched by trains here in SoFL all the time, but it’s usually a matter of drivers following bumper to bumper traffic onto the tracks, then the gates come down trapping your car inside. 30 seconds later Crunch!
About once a week one or another of our crossings malfunctions and the gates go down, sit a minute, go up, go right back down, lather rinse repeat indefinitely. With no train anywhere near.
The police get called, turn back traffic and send out text messages so I and other connected citizens know of the ensuing (massive) traffic problems. Usually an hour or so later there’s another text saying the gates are now operating normally & traffic is flowing again.
Today I left home in a torrential downpour intending to cross the tracks at my nearest crossing. I saw the gates go down from one intersection short of the tracks, waited for a train, no train, saw them go up & right back down. Crap! I know how this story goes.
I bailed out onto a road parallel to the tracks to avoid getting trapped in the rapidly building jam where I was. As I drove along I passed the other three gates at the other three crossings all doing the exact same thing. No trains in either direction. All 4 sets of independent gates over that 1.5 mile stretch of track were going nuts.
I changed my day’s plan to not need to cross those tracks today. The steady flow of txt messages from the PD suggests they had a very wet afternoon trying to corral the traffic with our whole town cut in half.
I do not know what is up with these particular gates, but their reliability leaves a LOT to be desired. I just hope they only fail by going down with no train; the opposite, being up with a train coming through would be a mass casualty event.
Indubitably
How obnoxious do you have to be to get evicted from a Trump Tower?
Either the walls of their condo were paper-thin, or this couple was never introduced to the concept of indoor voices.
Another link to this compelling saga (warning: extreme example of Mar-a-Lago face).
Or the sound carries real well through the shared bathroom exhaust ducting.
YIKES! That’s a really horrible version.
It’s a Trump project. There’s no either-or about it.
If I ever saw someone who looked like that, I’d assume she was a burn victim who’d undergone reconstructive surgery.
I was warned, but I still looked. What is wrong with me?
I looked. I do not think of that at all as Mar-a-Lago face. Yes, it is a hideous example of severely overdone plastic surgery. But it’s totally not the mar-a-lago look.
Where I live the overdone face, lips, and breasts sorta towards that extreme is very common. At a certain point in the wealth spectrum, it’s simply expected by women that they will spend to achieve “better” than natural. Some spend wisely, some not. Some have a good sense of aesthetics and restraint. Others have neither class nor style, but do know that more is always better.
Yeah, she has too much plastic surgery, but I think that the bigger problem there is just too much makeup.
Agreed. There is also a lot of “more is better” belief out there when it comes to makeup too.
I don’t know who we’re talking about, but a few days ago I caught a random episode of The Golden Girls were Sophia said (to Blanche) “Just because you put your makeup on with a butter knife doesn’t make you Tammy Bakker!”
Were talking specifically about the woman featured in the cites in @Jackmannii’s post about 10 up from here. Especially as seen in his third, non-preview-boxed cite.
Yikes. I’d much rather just look at Tammy Faye Bakker.
It’s hard to outdo Laura Loomer, but I think she managed it.
The correct meme is “leopard victim who’d undergone reconstructive surgery”.
Re: trains. There were east-west running tracks a mile or so from my old work place. When we went to lunch we nearly always went north across those tracks, but we knew to hurry our lunch to get back before 1:00. That was when the one train that ran during the day crossed the intersection we needed to use (well, actually, any intersection we’d take to get back to our building).
That train was always super long. We missed it once, and I clocked it as nearly 20 minutes that we sat there.
ETA: That woman should have left her lips alone. That one thing would improve her looks about 80%, instead of making her look like a duck-billed freak.