From my George Carlin Desk Calander:
“This item demonstrates ho stupid the average American is. Every 90 minutes someone in this country by a train. A train, okay? Trains are on tracks; they can’t come and get you. They can’t surprise you when you step off the curb. You have to go to them. Got that?” - George Carlin
Yup, That concept is too much for some folks. It is a self correcting problem though. Too bad it leaves so many innocent victums suffering or dead.
There is no shortage of DUMB, DUMB, DUMB people out there. If they happen to come upon a railroad track, a lot of them would think that it had been abandoned a long time ago.
I know I’ve told this story on the forums before, but it’s worth telling again. I graduated from Lincoln Sr. High School in '74, and my youngest brother graduated from the same school in the early 80’s. He played trombone for that school’s marching band and one afternoon he was out on the school’s football field with the rest of the band, practicing with their instruments. At that time, the BN had a spur line which ran right behind Lincoln Sr. High and it served a couple businesses in the same general area. The BN swich crew encountered a girl who was jogging right down the midle of the track!! They had slowed to almost a crawl and the engineer was repeatedly blowing the horn at her. When she finally got off the track, she and the swich crew were exchanging obscenities with her. Her attitude seemed to be “I was here first, leave me alone!!” I have known this same girl for years, her name is Ann, and the amount of grey matter in her cranium would be about the same size as a glass marble.
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So what was the color of her hair?[;)]
And does she have any sisters?[:D]
OK off topic, but I had to throw this out:
A blind man finds his way to a barstool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, “Hey, you wanna hear a blond joke?”
The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, Sir, I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1 - The bartender is a blonde girl.
2 - The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3 - I’m a 6 feet tall, 180-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4 - The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional weightlifter.
5 - The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.
Now think about it seriously, Mister. Do you really wanna tell that joke?" The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head, and declares, “Nah… Not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.”
That was good!!![(-D]
Or as Larry the Cable Guy said- "The tracks are a sign that somthin might be happening in this area- If you ever get attacked by a train, do this Larry steps to the side "
“No…no…I’m thinkin’ he’s gonna swerve first.”
Bill Murray to his inebriated passengers as he is driving on the tracks towards an approaching train in Groundhog Day.
If a bear leaves tracks, you don’t follow them right back to the bear.
If a dragon left tracks (assuming it was walking), you don’t walk back to the dragons lair.
So when a train leaves tracks, considerably easier to spot than bear or dragon tracks, why do people insist on walking down them, or stopping right in the middle of them?