# Possible superhero sighting - woman survives train collision **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785 "2015-02-27T17:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/1 "2015-02-27T17:46:49Z")
[Woman survives being runover by train](http://news.yahoo.com/police-woman-wearing-headphones-eating-hit-hurt-train-200828061.html) Right here in Phoenix. Apparently she in unbreakable. I love how they specify she was eating tacquitos! An important fact! ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/2 "2015-02-27T19:14:45Z")
Railroad accidents always astound me. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/3 "2015-02-27T19:36:15Z")
Her superpower is stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/4 "2015-02-27T19:40:05Z")
Well, they do say that God protects fools and meth-heads. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/5 "2015-02-27T19:57:44Z")
I feel for the train engineer, who was probably sure that someone was going to die. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/6 "2015-02-27T20:11:01Z")
Sheesh it doesn’t even say what she listening to on the headphones. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/7 "2015-02-27T20:15:56Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I love how they specify she was eating tacquitos! An important fact! It is. They were spinach tacquitos. (She’s Popeye’s daughter.) ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/8 "2015-02-27T20:19:06Z")
> [@](#): > > She was struck by the pilot, a plow-shaped device attached to the front of the locomotive to deflect objects that could derail a train. And all over the world, millions of readers simultaneously said to themselves, “You mean the cowcatcher?”. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/9 "2015-02-27T21:09:53Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Her superpower is stupidity. More of a _stupor_power, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/10 "2015-02-27T21:18:12Z")
Taquitos always taste better with Meth! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/11 "2015-02-27T21:56:55Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Right here in Phoenix. Apparently she in unbreakable. Maybe, but Hayden Panettiere was also Super-Nice as well as remarkably aware of her suroundings. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/12 "2015-02-27T22:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=Just Asking Questions;18167992I love how they specify she was eating tacquitos! An important fact![/QUOTE] A rolled corn tortilla like rolled steel, is much stronger than their flat or folded counterparts. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/13 "2015-02-27T23:08:10Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Sheesh it doesn’t even say what she listening to on the headphones. Train Kept A-Rollin’ ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/14 "2015-03-01T08:32:52Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > And all over the world, millions of readers simultaneously said to themselves, “You mean the cowcatcher?”. I know I did. 🙂 I’ve never heard it called anything else. Wonder if that’s regional or generational? Please let it be regional. I would be sad if it’s in the, “something only old people say” category. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/15 "2015-03-01T13:52:46Z")
Arizona. No surprise. One by one, it seems the states on the southern extreme of the U.S. are becoming like mental institutions. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/16 "2015-03-01T16:35:31Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Arizona. No surprise. One by one, it seems the states on the southern extreme of the U.S. are becoming like mental institutions. :rolleyes: Can I go fetch you a bigger brush? The Phoenix metro area has a population of over 4.3 Million people - in any population that size, you are going to have plenty of people with issues… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/17 "2015-03-01T17:30:32Z")
Statements like this boggle me a bit: “What a lucky day for this woman,” Crump said. (Crump being the police spokesman in the article.) I would not classify a day on which I was hit by a train as “lucky”, even if I survived with only minimal injuries. Individual bits of good fortune–like the train going slower than 20mph, or falling between the tracks instead of on them–does not balance _being hit by a frelling train_. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/18 "2015-03-06T05:08:06Z")
Anyone know where Sam Jackson was at the time this went down? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/19 "2015-03-06T08:29:40Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > One by one, it seems the states on the southern extreme of the U.S. are becoming like mental institutions. What did New Mexico ever do to you? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785/20 "2015-03-06T11:04:31Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Sheesh it doesn’t even say what she listening to on the headphones. “breathe in … breathe out … breathe in … breathe out …” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-superhero-sighting-woman-survives-train-collision/713785.md?page=2)