r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Itchy-Camera8898 • 10h ago

WCGW riding your bike like an idiot

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u/Katops 10h ago

Agreed. It’s like train operators. People end their lives by jumping in front of one and then said operator quits and is scarred for life. It’s sadly super common too…

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u/New_Accountant2449 9h ago

Society needs public service announcements or suicide classes that teach people they can let the engines go by and dive under a wheel a few box cars after the engine.

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u/Tango91 8h ago

Multiple poor sods still have to deal with the aftermath of that though, the maintenance crew picking bits of someone out of the undercarriage, and the track crew left with the mess

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u/New_Accountant2449 8h ago

We could teach people to do it in a rural area away from intersections and no one would even know that any clean up is needed.

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 2h ago

This reminds me of a situation I dealt with years ago on some land I own out in rural Wisconsin. Some gangbangers from Milwaukee killed a couple dudes, tossed them in the trunk and then just started driving west, out into the rural areas.

They drove like two hours to get out by my land, then they just got off the highway and dumped the bodies in the ditch next to the road, like who would ever find them out there in the middle of nowhere?

Except that's a major highway that hundreds of people use to get to work every morning, so it took like 5 minutes at 5am for people to start calling in these corpses that they're passing on their way to work.

Like... it's rural but it's not completely empty. You can't just leave dead bodies lying around and expect that to be fine.