All train / roadway crossing are known as grade crossings. Well at least by the railroads anyway.




Semper Fi SAINT. May you rest in peace.

At least i can sleep easily knowing that a healthy portion of those people will not pass on their flawed genetic material into the genepool.

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Trading a few more years with your loved ones for an addiction is stupid and selfish IMO. To each their own though.

If your loved ones cannot come to grips with death and are over 16 years old, The problem is not you--the problem is them. People die--sometimes calmly in old age, sometimes violently. Get used to it.


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I live in the Chicago area (burbs) and I drive my wife to the train station every morning and you would not believe how quiet some of these commuter trains are today.

I mean you can still her them well enough ahead of time to get out of the way. My wife was telling about this teacher that was riding her bike and the barriers were down but the train was stopped and loading people and so she went past them and bam another on coming train hit her.

Like the other guy said respect the train!
because I don't care what you are in the train will and I mean will win!

So no one looks both ways before crossing the track?

If its at night I look for a light, and in the day I always look weather or not the bars are down or the lights are flashing. This is if I'm on foot or in my car its just common sense. Don't trust technology, it always fails when you need it the most.


-Chris

I would say that most must look. Think about how many people cross railway tracks every day. It would be in the millions of crossings per day for sure. Under 500 deaths a year? Seems pretty good to me.

PAX

^^^that is a good point, If we assume:

The average IQ around the world is about 100:

Therefore, half of the people are less than that.

Ergo, half of the world's population is DUMB. As in a bucket of slime mold dumb (and i apologize for insulting slime mold everywhere).

Somehow, out of 500M people, only about .0005% of these cretins managed to kill themselves by a train.

impressive, to say the least..


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Railroad crossings are Darwin's best friend.


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[quote=Keeper of the Light™]If your loved ones cannot come to grips with death and are over 16 years old, The problem is not you--the problem is them. People die--sometimes calmly in old age, sometimes violently. Get used to it.

I know what your saying, lifes a bitch and then you die. That doesn't mean that you should rush towards death, have you ever wished someone was around longer? It might be a selfish wish to make, but I want to grant that wish for my loved ones. Maybe I would feel differently if I believed in an afterlife. Ultimately you have a right to do what you want with your body, I'm just saying that I can't rationalize it.


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-The government is best which governs least.
-The government is no longer for the people.
-The forefathers were not necessarily right.
-Religion breeds self-righteousness.
-Ignoring problems rarely fixes them.
-All men are CREATED equal.
-We DO legislate morality.
-Justice does not exist.
-Rely only on yourself.
-Legalize marihuana.
-Gun control kills!

I just rationalize freedom of choice. My brother smokes, I know it will kill him prematurely unless he quits, but then again, I have full permission to laugh at him and call him an idiot if he croaks--by my bro himself.

Granted, i'm not rushing towards death because i figure the longer i live, the more I'll piss off those that would rather have me dead.

Still, it's my bro's choice to smoke--he knows I think it's stupid, but i've said my piece and he still does it. If i can't come to terms with that, the problem is not him smoking, the problem is me living in Candy Land where there's nothing but gumdrops and rainbows.

Really, on an aside, I'm amazed how many adults are really children, since they can't come to terms with death--loved ones or their own. We're all going to die, so why not have that cigarette, eat that red meat, nail that stud/hottie, perfect your masturbation technique. Regret only happens when you fail to do what you should have to please someone else.


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The only thing every single person from every single walk of life on earth can truly say
they have in common is that their country is run by a bunch of fargin iceholes.

Yeah, I know whatcha mean, you only live once. I can understand that it's their right, I just don't agree with that conclusion. It's just my opinion and opinions are like a$$h0le$, everyone has one and they all stink. Nearly all of my family smokes and my grandmother (maw maw) died from it, so I'm used to second-hand smoke. People get upset because they don't want to be separated from someone they love, death is merely the means of the separation. I neither welcome( I get close), nor fear death.


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-There is no such thing as objective journalism, there never was.
-The government is best which governs least.
-The forefathers were not necessarily right.
-Religion breeds self-righteousness.
-Ignoring problems rarely fixes them.
-All men are CREATED equal.
-We DO legislate morality.
-Justice does not exist.
-Rely only on yourself.
-Legalize marihuana.
-Gun control kills!

Im curious of how many of those deaths were crimes.

My cousin was pushed in front of a train when he was 15 years old and died immediately upon inpact. There was a mentally distrubed boy in the neighborhood who was literally obsessed with my cousin and he pushed him as he was walking to go to the mall to get something for my aunt (his mother, who that was her only child) since it was her birthday.

Sorry, but I'm not finding any humor or understanding in most of your comments.

It sucks about your cousin. Terrible thing to have happen, especially on your Aunt's birthday. RIP

Like I said before.. People lack respect for the hundreds of thousands of tons of steel. Trains can be quiet, and it's easier to be hit by a train than some may think.

Living very close to a freight line, I saw the evidence of that fact far too often.

PAX

There is a few way one could logically get hit without it being intentional / suicidal / stupid


1) Those new Amtrak / Via rail commuter trains, they are significantly less noisy than a regular train

2) Train coming around a corner, yes they are loud, but if it coming up behind you, it sounds similar to an airplane.

3) Winter at night at uncontrolled crossings, I've seen someone do this out in Alberta. In the winter the trains get covered with dirt / salt like everything else meaning they are completely unreflective. So if when you approach the crossing and the engine has all ready passed, the crossing would look dark like everything else. So being in a car you just cruse up to the crossing like there is no train, and you don't notice until its too late. You hit the brakes, slide in the slow and side swipe a train. Train wins



Anyway that’s my thoughts