Sorry to be a humourless tightarse, but you punsters might wish to watch this Youtube video.
There’s nothing gory in it - it’s a train driver who has given a cab ride to a rail enthusiast, and the driver is talking about a teenager he struck and killed a couple of years before, and what it did to the driver mentally. Unless you’re a rail enthusiast, go straight to the 2:47 mark. I can translate if his accent is too thick.
Don’t mess with trains, chil’lun.
They’re ripping on the survivor teens, at least, which is not entirely undeserved. I have full sympathy for the driver; the teens were being weapons-grade stupid.
I’ve taken a train (full passenger diesel style, not subway/elevated electric) to work every day for years, and see stupid stuff frequently. Just yesterday I saw a businessman at my stop walk to the crossing in front of the stopped train and blatantly cross, with the engineer blaring the horn at him the entire way and the guy not even flinching. I know the guy crossing probably figured he was just being needlessly picky about the rules, but the engineer was almost certainly pissed about the number of times he’s seen passengers do stupid shit because they “knew” they’d be fine, and maybe they weren’t right about that.
I remember seeing a show about train crashes and the like, which showed film of an accident at a stop I used to get on at. Someone had set up a camera waiting for a historic train to come through, and was filming when a commuter train was stopped. I think people were getting off, and I think a man and a woman approached the crossing. Gates were still down and the gate alarms were ringing. They looked the other direction, away from the train that was stopped there, and began to cross. Then the man looked around the stopped train as he got past the front end, and suddenly jerked back. The woman wasn’t looking that way and stepped forward, and the footage stopped there, as you saw a train running on the middle track passing around the parked train.
Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff on Youtube that is pretty sobering. I won’t link to it.
There’s another I will link to though:
It’s from an Australian Fox-style tabloid current affair magazine type show, so it’s a bit sensationalist, but it does get the message across - especially where the film crew in the cab of the locomotive gets the train driver to simulate a full emergency stop. It takes three quarters of a mile.
Plus or minus a foot.
I got that joke from Jake, the boy on 2 1/2 men. It made me laugh my butt off.
I HOP-- 
According to Nobel scientists, there was no evidence of drug use on anyone’s part, except for the ones who WERE SUNNING THEMSELVES ON A TRAIN TRACK, AND THEN FELL ASLEEP!
That’s weird because I actually have a real-life half-assed connection to that kid.
So what you’re saying is that because they’re missing a foot, so then when they walked…and then…I HOP…OHHHHHH! :o
Submitted sans augmentation because that kinda stands on its own, don’t it?
Unlike Destiny and Rachel…
I think it’s sad that you can’t learn life lessons like this in college, even though they charge an arm and a leg.
Maybe the train was actually the Spanish Inquisition.
When it comes to black humor, we Dopers are no pussyfooters. Doesn’t mean we’re callous, though [she said, archly] – just that we don’t stand on ceremony.
You guys are so sick.
And so funny!
No doubt they’d heard this is how you get sleepers punched into your ears.
Were they blondes?
Poor girls… all they wanted was a little R&R.