A 17 year old girl’s legs were severed when she and three males attempted to “train hop” a northbound BNSF coal train.
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A 17-year-old college student’s legs were severed at the knees after she fell while attempting to jump on a moving train on Monday.
Authorities said the Colorado State University student was ‘train hopping’ with three males between the ages of 17 and 20 when she slipped on the northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train around 1:35pm.
The teenager’s name and condition have not yet been released.
Authorities say a woman was seriously injured while trying to board a train in Waterloo Monday afternoon.
Officers who were sent to the scene, near the intersection of Conger and Reed streets, around 2:30 p.m. Monday found Shvette Grubbs, 46, of Waterloo, alongside the tracks. The train had severed one of Grubbs’ legs, but she was talking to paramedics as she was loaded onto a stretcher.
Precisely, and I sincerely hope she and her companions in this breach of boundaries take the time to ponder what they now share as a salutary ending…since it could have been so much worse…and to warn off others thinking of the same form of excitement.
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I wonder if perhaps these young folks saw too many movies where the main characters jumped aboard moving freight trains with ease and assumed that it would be just as easy for them?!
Yet, if so, they probably didn’t consider that most often those movies were filmed in the days when we still had 40ft and 50ft. boxcars with open slide doors and that professional stuntmen in top physical shape took the risks for the actors.