Authorities say a Grinnell College student is lucky to be alive after it appears he was run over by a train on campus Thursday.
Police responded to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks south of Eighth Avenue on the college campus around 6:25 p.m. Darwin C. Manning, 18, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was found with a severe injury to his right leg, authorities said.
“He did go under the train,” Police Chief Jody Matherly said. “There’s a probability that he was run over. It appears that he was.”
Officers discovered Manning and another student were videotaping each other jumping onto the southbound train when Manning fell off. His leg was nearly severed, Matherly said.
Manning was taken by ambulance to Grinnell Regional Medical Center. After treatment,
You can train the ignorant, but stupid is forever. [:o)] [:o)]
To paraphrase B. Bunny; " Whadda couple of maroons."
There are plenty of further comments to be made about this circumstance, God Knows! The folks here have made their positions crystal clear, constantly.
The hardest way to have your workday on a railroad go wrong .[2c]
ROFLMAO He was on a clear block but if he been at track speed this would not have happened. Engineer probley on his cell phone, talking to the pharmacy about his drugs with his dark sunglasses on at night in the fog.
But the “Brooklyn, N.Y.” caught my eye instead - that figures, esp. after that photo sequence in Trains a couple months ago of the kids doing the same to a freight train in Chicago.
Zugmann I think this guy could have a job with the railroad saftey department he made his first video, improper ways of mounting equipment and the effects there after.
And I used to think that college students were at least marginally intelligent…
Or does it take bullets whistling past one’s ears to activate the self-preservation reflex? (I recall mine being rather well developed long before I entered high school - but then, I was an Army brat.)
If anybody sues anybody, the railroad should sue the individuals who interrupted their operation and caused them to have to spend extra money on such things as extended work hours and off-duty crew transportation…
As Robert Heinlein had his key character, Lazarus Long, enter into his notebook, “Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.” This time the executioner’s axe missed the neck and hit the leg. Next time???
I’d lighten to this extent, folks: Sometimes smart people have stupid moments, particularly when they are 18 years old. Ever do something stupid … and realize that it was only by the grace of God or dumb luck that you are still around to remember it?
and in every video its always the kid who stops the ole head from derailing. but they quit fighting when the sista got off the engine to stop the fighting, i dont know of any engineer to get off the engine and walk that far to do that.