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Posted: Nov 11 2009 09:32 pm

What if the train is wrong way down a one way track?

Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

Syd Lexia wrote:

What if the train is wrong way down a one way track?

I would probably feel like it was getting somewhere, but somehow not here nor there. Also, I would feel like helping to search for missing kids.

Posted: Nov 12 2009 12:14 am

SHe just walked the sobriety walking test.. OF DEATH!!! Twisted Evil

(I'm also down with the spike'd bumpers of the subway trains, why not turn the deaths of drunken-dumbshits into beautiful works of art!!)

Posted: Nov 12 2009 10:13 am

anorexorcist wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

sidewaydriver wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Knyte wrote:

We have a lightrail system here in Oregon called the MAX Line. It kills about 2-3 people a year. Which is unbelievable because: 1. It on rails, and can't swerve to hit you. 2. The places where it hits people are usually the places where the tram is only going 10-20 MPH.

Most of my friends agree, if you are an adult and get run over by the Max, then you deserve it.

Why don't they put a cow-catcher on the front of it? Problem solved.

I'm gonna have to go the opposite way with you on that. I think they should put a grill of spikes on the front of the train. At least it'd make the body easier to recover.

True, but it would decrease the fuel efficiency of the train having to lug all those bodies. Most of them are probably fat people, too.

How does that make sense?

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

Just curious, how often do people get hit by trains? I would think this wouldn't be a big problem...

Posted: Nov 12 2009 10:49 am

Doddsino wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

Just curious, how often do people get hit by trains? I would think this wouldn't be a big problem...

You would think that, wouldn't you? But apparently it happens often enough. Unless you're deaf and blind, I find it hard to believe you couldn't sense a train bearing down on you.

Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

Doddsino wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

Just curious, how often do people get hit by trains? I would think this wouldn't be a big problem...

I got my Master's at the U of Delaware between 2004 and 2006. In those 2 years, I heard of SIX people getting hit by a train that rolls by on the outskirts of town. 4 of them died. Usually they would get hit because they would go drink at the frat houses, decide to go home via the train tracks, pass out, and get made into one of those novelty pennies you see at rest stops.

One of the kids that got hit and didn't die was my student. He was just dumb and walked too close to the track. The train had an extension that went out about 3 feet and clipped his leg and snapped it. Needless to say, he missed class for a while.

Posted: Nov 12 2009 12:38 pm

Kubo wrote:

Doddsino wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

Just curious, how often do people get hit by trains? I would think this wouldn't be a big problem...

I got my Master's at the U of Delaware between 2004 and 2006. In those 2 years, I heard of SIX people getting hit by a train that rolls by on the outskirts of town. 4 of them died. Usually they would get hit because they would go drink at the frat houses, decide to go home via the train tracks, pass out, and get made into one of those novelty pennies you see at rest stops.

One of the kids that got hit and didn't die was my student. He was just dumb and walked too close to the track. The train had an extension that went out about 3 feet and clipped his leg and snapped it. Needless to say, he missed class for a while.

Ha, my GF went to Delaware (graduated '06). We were just down there a couple of weeks ago for homecoming. We were going to the Deer Park Tavern, and we walked over some train tracks on the way. She says "these are the train tracks where everyone dies."

Posted: Nov 12 2009 12:42 pm

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Doddsino wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

Just curious, how often do people get hit by trains? I would think this wouldn't be a big problem...

You would think that, wouldn't you? But apparently it happens often enough. Unless you're deaf and blind, I find it hard to believe you couldn't sense a train bearing down on you.

Even if you wear death and blind you'd still sense it bearing down unless you were numb as well. Something that big moving that fast is a pretty noticeable sensation.

Posted: Nov 12 2009 12:47 pm

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Doddsino wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

Just curious, how often do people get hit by trains? I would think this wouldn't be a big problem...

You would think that, wouldn't you? But apparently it happens often enough. Unless you're deaf and blind, I find it hard to believe you couldn't sense a train bearing down on you.

Even if you wear death and blind you'd still sense it bearing down unless you were numb as well. Something that big moving that fast is a pretty noticeable sensation.

I agree. A train moving at a good speed is like a fucking hurricane or a tornado coming at you.

Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Ha, my GF went to Delaware (graduated '06). We were just down there a couple of weeks ago for homecoming. We were going to the Deer Park Tavern, and we walked over some train tracks on the way. She says "these are the train tracks where everyone dies."

That's the exact spot that I'm talking about. In '04, just out back of Deer Park, a girl wandered out there and pass out on the tracks. They found what was left of her the following morning at several points up and down the train tracks. She got piss drunk at a frat or house party, passed out on the track and got hit SEVERAL times. That's the spot though... just behind Deer Park and about a mile in either direction.

Posted: Nov 12 2009 01:11 pm

Kubo wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Ha, my GF went to Delaware (graduated '06). We were just down there a couple of weeks ago for homecoming. We were going to the Deer Park Tavern, and we walked over some train tracks on the way. She says "these are the train tracks where everyone dies."

That's the exact spot that I'm talking about. In '04, just out back of Deer Park, a girl wandered out there and pass out on the tracks. They found what was left of her the following morning at several points up and down the train tracks. She got piss drunk at a frat or house party, passed out on the track and got hit SEVERAL times. That's the spot though... just behind Deer Park and about a mile in either direction.

Ugh.....nasty. Yea....train tracks and college campuses don't mix.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

That's awesome

I bet the parents were pretty upset...not at their darling child...but at the evil conductor that killed their baby

Posted: Nov 12 2009 03:04 pm

I was there when the girl got hit by the train. In fact, I took a picture of it.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

That is so fucking mean, yet I can't stop laughing.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Hehehehehehe

Posted: Nov 12 2009 05:18 pm

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

The only people around here that have been hit by trains were either A) drunk or B) committed suicide. Didn't you say you didn't like fat people? Sounds to me like your irrational hatred is clouding your judgement.

You're also assuming that fat people fall in front of trains more often(in subway cases) and that they wander near train tracks more frequently than people who are not overweight. Didn't you say you didn't like fat people? Sounds to me like your irrational hatred is clouding your judgement.

Aren't you the one who also said drunk driving penalties are too stiff? I find it funny you blame fat people and defend people who drink and drive who(drunks) tend to be the ones getting hit by trains.

Posted: Nov 12 2009 05:27 pm

anorexorcist wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

The only people around here that have been hit by trains were either A) drunk or B) committed suicide. Didn't you say you didn't like fat people? Sounds to me like your irrational hatred is clouding your judgement.

You're also assuming that fat people fall in front of trains more often(in subway cases) and that they wander near train tracks more frequently than people who are not overweight. Didn't you say you didn't like fat people? Sounds to me like your irrational hatred is clouding your judgement.

Aren't you the one who also said drunk driving penalties are too stiff? I find it funny you blame fat people and defend people who drink and drive who tend to be the ones getting hit by trains.

Wow.....someone is letting a half-hearted joke bother him a little too much.

Posted: Nov 12 2009 05:31 pm

I just don't like people making ignorant statements like that. Especially people like you who think drinking and driving penalties should be lighter.

I thought you'd be defending her, she could have been a friend of yours or your mom...wait if she were she'd probably have been driving.

I love jokes, I just don't see how that's funny. Maybe I just didn't "get" the "joke".

Posted: Nov 12 2009 05:37 pm

anorexorcist wrote:

I just don't like people making ignorant statements like that. Especially people like you who think drinking and driving penalties should be lighter.

I thought you'd be defending her, she could have been a friend of yours or your mom...wait if she were she'd probably have been driving.

I love jokes, I just don't see how that's funny. Maybe I just didn't "get" the "joke".

People like me, huh? And you're going to insult my mom as well?

Ah, the internet. Gotta love it.

Posted: Nov 12 2009 05:38 pm

It was just a half hearted joke...didn't you get it?

Posted: Nov 12 2009 06:57 pm

anorexorcist wrote:

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Because fat people are slower. All things being equal, I'd have to assume that fat people get hit by trains more often.

The only people around here that have been hit by trains were either A) drunk or B) committed suicide. Didn't you say you didn't like fat people? Sounds to me like your irrational hatred is clouding your judgement.

You're also assuming that fat people fall in front of trains more often(in subway cases) and that they wander near train tracks more frequently than people who are not overweight. Didn't you say you didn't like fat people? Sounds to me like your irrational hatred is clouding your judgement.

Aren't you the one who also said drunk driving penalties are too stiff? I find it funny you blame fat people and defend people who drink and drive who tend to be the ones getting hit by trains.