He’s sure trying hard to be a Darwin award nominee…
He’ running against the guy from last week who had been hit in the head by a train…FOR THE SECOND TIME IN HIS LIFE.
Should be a good finals this year. Bumper crop of stupid people.[swg]
Some people are just too stupid to live, I wonder if the crew tried to blow the horn and spook the deer?
I found that second story a hoot! Ronald MacDonald busted for robbing a Wendy’s! LOL
They should not have stopped !!![:D]
How did he live to be 68?
By being vewwy, vewwy careful!
(Surprised he wasn’t twacking the twain!)
As for the Wendy’s guy, Jay Leno said he would have gotten away, except he tripped over his own big feet.
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Deer ?? I thought Elmer only went after “Wascally Wabbitts” !!![:0]
If this guy is that stupid, the trains shouldn’t stop. After all, since he’s a hunter it only evens the odds a bit for the deer.
How did he get to be 68? Pure dumb luck!Even if he had gotten hit by the train,that guy would probably be too stupid to die[xx(][8]!
Well, the story doesn’t say for sure; but it reads like he missed the shot to boot.
I wonder what the police charged him with. Being a poor marksman or interferring with interstate commerce?
It is obvious to me that you guys have never met any “real” deer hunters, such as the kind that grow up in my childhood stomping grounds in Northern Wisconsin. They just might try to take down a train, barehanded, for spoiling a shot.[(-D][(-D][(-D]
Jay
That may sound funny right now, and it was my first knee-jerk response as well.
However, until you’ve had the pleasant experience of pulling body parts out from under your locomotive so the state coroner will be satisfied that he has a ‘complete’ body, please do not wish an incident like that on anyone.
Pedestrians, when hit by a train, either are launched aside at impact, get caught on the front, or go undeneath the train. When they go underneath, it is messy beyond belief (unless maybe you are an EMT or a soldier). And laying on the ballast, crawling underneath your locomotive, and pulling shards of ripped flesh and bone off of the various locomotive protrusions is a horrible experience.
Yes, that hunter was a complete moron, and we can only imagine the IQ level he or any his offspring may have; but please do not, even in jest, suggest that a train crew should have to go through the distress of a pedestrian fatality.
You have to remember - when guys like this get killed, it raises the general level of intelligence on this planet.
The scary thing to consider is that if the train had run over him, his survivors would have made a lot of money off the railroad.
Old Timer
Just as an aside, I’ve been along on deer hunts with my uncle and cousins up near Rice Lake, except that I hunted with my camera. They did most of their hunting in the Blue Hills east of town, though, miles away from any railroads, so I don’t know how they would’ve acted around the tracks. In fact, a couple of the people killed by that crazy Hmong guy last fall were friends/neighbors of theirs…
Brian
One of neighbors in town came upon that guy after the shootings, and not knowing what had happened, helped him find his way out of the woods. Very tragic.
So, with family that are hunters, you probably know just how big that sport can be. There are many businesses up there that plan a shut down for the week because nobody would show up for work anyway. Train traffic, never that heavy up there, gets even slower during Thanksgiving week, so hunter-train encounters are very rare. I still wouldn’t make any bets on who would win. LOL
Jay
Yep, Thanksgiving dinner is just a brief interruption for them- my cousin’s son got a nice buck this year, but my cousin had to settle for a doe. Not sure how my uncle fared. I’ll probably be getting the opportunity to visit them soon, as my 91-year-old grandmother is not doing too well in a nursing home up there.
I’m puzzled by this quote from the news story … “If the train that interrupted the great deer hunt had been a passenger or freight train, it wouldn’t have been able to stop and may have struck Bruno or even jumped the tracks, Bender told The Post-Star.”
I’m wondering what kind of train it was.
It sounded like it was a short, slow-moving MoW train. Alot easier to stop that in a short distance.
I have nothing against hunting or hunters in general, but this guy sounds like a typical sufferer of BuckFeverBraindeath. More than once, while on my father’s farm, he and my brothers and I were screamed at or threatened by some irate knucklehead who hadn’t even asked if he could hunt there, because we had made noise or driven around and scared away a deer. In today’s prices, the joker could drive around in a $30,000 pickup, with a $2000 rifle, in a $300 hunting outfit, and possibly own dogs that cost $2000 a year to keep, but he wasn’t willing to spend any money buying land and paying the taxes on it so he’d have a place to hunt. Sounds like the idiot on the tracks was cut from the same cloth.