Oh, cripes, another train. EVERYONE OFF THE TRESTLE!
I was about to ask how anyone could be so unbelievably stupid, but then I remembered that one time as a teenager that I walked home from work on the railroad tracks with my Walkman on full blast.
All of a sudden, I heard a sound that was even louder than my Queen Greatest Hits cassette, and I quickly turned around to see a massive Amtrak engine occupying my full field of vision and bearing down fast. I didn’t even think, just dove headfirst into some brush beside the tracks and somehow escaped death by a fraction of a second.
So yeah, I guess I can understand how they’d be so stupid. :smack:
Won’t you take a ride, ride, ride, ride on heeaaaavy metal…
Forget the Walkman. Forget full blast. Two people here have been killed recently because they were paying more attention to their cell phones than what might be speeding toward them on the tracks. I’ll never understand how people can be so casual about something that can ruin or snuff out your life in an instant like that. sigh
Cutting edge technology?
Teenagers are invincible.
I didn’t expect to read this and find it hysterical! My boss just stuck his head in my office and asked what was so funny. I almost couldn’t speak.
Future headline:
“Destiny and Rachel take First Place in the paralympic circular swimming 2 person relay…”
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.
[Destiny and Rachel]
“Who are those guys?”
[Destiny and Rachel]
I heard that they are going to have to change their names.
Destiny will now be called Peg (leg).
Rachel will now go by Eileen.
They can always get waitressing jobs at IHOP.
I like to walk on railroad tracks, but I keep my eyes and ears open and jump off at the first sound I hear. I once asked a cop what the worst thing he ever saw was. He mentioned a car that “tried to outrun a train and missed.”
They were just two footloose teens…
Indeed they are. Until they find out they aren’t.
They got pretty vinced.
I read my mother this story:
“Boy, I bet they’re kicking themselves.”
Long pause.
“Well, I guess maybe they aren’t.”
Yeah, they all think they’re undefeetable.
in the days before cell phones, walkmans or ipods i nearly got my ticket punched by a train - and i wasn’t doing anything except driving. this happened in a nearby town to where i live now which has a downtown unguarded rr track that cuts right through the center of town. the buildings are so close to the tracks sound is heavily muffled or distorted. i never heard A TRAIN ENGINE on the approach, pulling god knows how many boxes.
i’d pulled up to the stop sign, looked left, right, left, and then started to cross. i never looked right again. in the next instant, i was deafened by a train horn. i looked right and there was the train less than ten feet from my right front bumper. i was about a quarter of the way across.
talk about adrenaline and instinct taking over… fortunately for me, my car, **and ** my driving record there hadn’t been anyone behind me, because in the next instant i found myself almost in the middle of the intersection. i have no memory of shoving the little chevy monza i was driving then into reverse and getting the hell out of dodge, but obviously i did. 
I hear they are going to get together on Halloween and go trick or treating dressed up as Halvsie
Hey, check out the caboose on that chick.