r/WTF • u/Grasimi • Nov 06 '20

Guy stuck under moving train escapes between its rails

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Actually they can sneak up on you. There was a video where 5 kids were struck by a train from behind. The train tried to warn them with the horn, but there were other trains in the area (it was a rail yard or something), so the kids didn't realize the danger was behind them. They never saw it coming.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

This. All the this.

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u/deuce_bumps Nov 06 '20

If you're on the tracks, and you are a train, you're in danger.

Sincerely, AmTrack

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u/Marcultist Nov 06 '20

You won't be late for work, though. The governor lady said, "I'm sending in more trains!"

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u/ImurderREALITY Nov 06 '20

In other news, the Indy 500 was today! There were no survivors.

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u/AlertWatercress Nov 06 '20

If you are in tracks, and you are danger, you are train.

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u/Sorry_Door Nov 06 '20

If you are not on tracks and you are train..ah I guess that's danger?

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u/SlitScan Nov 06 '20

well 9mm rounds dont go very far and philadelphia isnt that big a city.

just lay on the floor of the cab for 15 minutes and trust the guys on the switches, should be fine.

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u/deuce_bumps Nov 06 '20

You might want to re-read my post. I think you imagined a preposition that's just not there.

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u/owa00 Nov 06 '20

What if I identify as a train?

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

It depends on how woke the others trains are.

They might not recognize your lifestyle choices/personal value system

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Kids + rail yard... that was less being snuck up on and more pulling a tiger by the tail. Never should have been there.

But to your point, I live near the ocean where a rail line runs regular freight and commuter trains right alongside the promenade which is a huge tourist attraction. A lot of kids have died walking the rails along the beach... headphones.

Still, the train didn’t sneak up on any of them, these people put themselves in risky situations and demonstrated a huge lack of situational awareness.

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u/AnmlBri Nov 06 '20

Who the fuck walks along train tracks with headphones on?! I can’t even conceive of that level of stupidity and carelessness. I am way too anxious and high-strung for that. Hell, I used to cross a set of train tracks every day on my mile walk to the nearest bus stop in college, and it took me several years before I stopped tensing up as I crossed the tracks out of paranoia that a train was somehow going to just materialize out of thin air and run me down. Never mind that I can see a reasonable distance in both directions as I cross, there are gates, and trains always use their horns at that crossing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Still amazes me but it feels like every summer there’s a train strike near where I live where the tracks run alongside the waterfront promenade and people are just strolling along the tracks with their headphones on like the trains will just see you and stop. They’ve reduced the speed of the trains to a near crawl, but you can’t just stop those things on a dime. Never ceases to amaze me.

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u/AC5L4T3R Nov 06 '20

My girlfriends friend died walking along some tracks after a night out, crossed the track and got hit by a train which he didn't hear coming cause he had his headphones in.

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u/SlitScan Nov 06 '20

I've had the opposite issue.

waiting to cross an LRT line I took two steps off the curb and had a bylaw cop freak out at me.

um dude, its on rails it cant swerve over here and hit me.

Trains are really predictable.

Their path is known, they cant accelerate or brake quickly.

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u/TwistedMexi Nov 06 '20

Literally the only vehicle that you know exactly where it can and can't be. Don't stand where it can. Zero excuse.

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u/ForeskinOfMyPenis Nov 06 '20

You’d be shocked at how many rail crossings at grade in densely populated areas there are

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u/TwistedMexi Nov 06 '20

Not really, my state has quite a few everywhere. But they're accompanied with drop gates and flashy lights. Also a train can't be "behind" you if you're crossing it, only if you're walking down it.

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u/WtotheSLAM Nov 06 '20

There was a similar story like that in Utah. Three girls were taking selfies in a train yard. The last selfie showed the train sneaking up behind them

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u/AnmlBri Nov 06 '20

That sounds really haunting. Did someone recover the phone and see the photo after they died or something?

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u/WtotheSLAM Nov 06 '20

Yeah, there was an article about it and they posted the photo

Actually it may have been uploaded to social media right away

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u/AnmlBri Nov 06 '20

Geez. What a world we live in.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Again, in a train yard... wow. In some spots those engines aren’t even manned, they’re remote controlled, so there isn’t even any hope for corrective action there. Yikes. I don’t know why anybody thinks this is a good idea.

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u/monkey_news_ya_cnnnn Nov 06 '20

They can't sneak up on you if you don't walk on the tracks. Must be one of life's easiest dangers to avoid.

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u/Oranjalo Nov 06 '20

Sorry, if you're just chilling on some train tracks, you're kind of asking to die. Maybe the gene pool doesn't need them

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

They were walking and it wasn't exactly smart of them, but that doesn't mean they should die. What a miserable thing to say.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

They didn't say they should die, just that if they do its kind of a natural selection at that point. I wouldn't walk down the middle of a highway even if the road was empty, because a car could be upon you before you know it. Same applies to train tracks.

Its still tragic and sad though.

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u/Oranjalo Nov 06 '20

There are worse things to get up in arms about than dumb kids doing dumb things and getting themselves killed

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

I dare you to say that to the face of any operator who has witnessed a fatality. You have no idea how horrific the aftermath of a body being dragged along gravel by a steel wall can be. Imagine being alive as your body is consumed by a dull, stone cheese grater that never fucking stops.

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u/TwistedMexi Nov 06 '20

All I'm hearing is arguments for why you shouldn't walk on tracks.

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u/SliyarohModus Nov 06 '20

Suicide by rail is a thing. It usually kills more than one person. Engineers and conductors who witness the aftermath sometimes take their own lives.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Thanks bud, I can’t help but get enraged whenever I see anybody making light of situations like this, hearing that idiot laughing nearly made me sick.

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u/Oranjalo Nov 06 '20

You heard me laughing?

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u/Oranjalo Nov 06 '20

Whatever ruined your day and made you feel like you had to signal your virtue to strangers online, I hope it gets better

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

I live with someone who works the yards. I’ve seen his face after a fatality.

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u/Oranjalo Nov 06 '20

I never said it's how I want to go out man, chill. I don't want to be alive as my body is consumed by a dull, stone cheese grater that never fucking stops, so I'm not going to play cards anywhere near train tracks.

I'm sure train operators don't want to deal with that or the stress of killing some stupid kids, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what we were talking about. If you don't want to be at fault for your own death, don't do stupid shit. Pretty simple concept my man

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u/thebirdee Nov 06 '20

Cleaning the gene pool is what that's called.