Speaks volumes about what a looser he is eh’.
Looks like he decided to edit his post. I guess he thought better of that comment.
This is a real tragedy, regardless of how it happened. I read about it a day or so ago on CNN.com. You have to feel for her family.
Ron
To try and steer this back on topic…
Yes, seen both, have the sad one (the girl vs train one) on my PC, cannot get a more graphic illustration on how one must always always always look both ways before crossing. Normally when I read stories similar to this, like the at-least-once-a-year idiots here who insist on jogging on the tracks while wearing blaring headphones, I just shake my head in disgust at the blatent stupidity of some people. But this story still makes me suspect an other motive, perhaps depression, breakup, family destress, that might have led this girl to intentionally take her life by suicide-by-train. I’m not trying to come down on this girl or her family but the circumstances don’t add up to a mear trespassing accident. I beleive there my be other factors or personal demons at work here that only she contended with. We will likely never know the whole truth.
As for the Euro kid, ever hear of the Darwin Awards?
eins unserer Mitglieder ist ein grosser Idiot
According to the local paper (Austin American-Statesman, April 15), some deaf people think that they can “feel the vibration” of an approaching train. She was text messaging on her cell phone while she was walking, using the track as a shortcut between her mother’s and her father’s house. She was at the side of the rails, and was struck by the pilot of the locomotive. I don’t think that we have to talk about suicide to explain this. Most folks are really ignorant about railroads. If you doubt that, just come to the intersection of 45th and Airport Blvd, here in Austin, and watch the idiots stop on the tracks at the grade crossing while they wait for the light to change. Or ride with me and look back to see the drivers behind me making obscene gestures at me when I stop before the crossing. That track is AUATRR and light traffic, but people need to treat RR tracks as though there is a train due every minute of every day and stay the @#$% off of the tracks and right-of-way.
Can someone give me a link to the clip with the lady walkin’ out in front of the commuter train. I’ve heard of it but never seen it.
Tresspassing along railroad right of way at the edge of ties while text messaging…my sympathies to her family…but her mind was alread out of the real world at the time.
My German is a little bad but I’ll be happy to tell him where to go in Italian-LOL
There is a big trend of people using their cell phones while walking in front of pavement traffic and railroad traffic only to be struck and killed.
The main thing that we have to tell everyone is: When you use a cell phone or PDA, stand in a safe spot.
Andrew F.
Editorial published yesterday in the Austin American-Statesman. You should consider passing this along to your non-rail friends who may be tempted to forget.
"A painful reminder of the dangers of train tracks
EDITORIAL BOARD
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
The tragic death Monday of Tara Rose McAvoy, a promising young Texas School for the Deaf graduate, along the Union Pacific’s main line in South Austin is a grim reminder that railroad tracks should not be used by anyone as a public thoroughfare.
Tracks are all around us in the urban environment, and they often look like a quick shortcut for a pedestrian. But the tracks’ usually quiet appearance belies the fact that a railroad is an inherently dangerous industrial environment, with sudden death or injury a decided risk to anyone in the proximity of a moving train.
The standard railroad rule book has always reminded railroaders to “expect the movement of trains, cars or engines on any track, at any time, in either direction.” It’s a stern warning as well to anyone tempted to walk along a railroad track.
No one is really to blame in Monday’s tragedy; it’s most likely a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But it should remind everyone on foot that saving a few minutes taking a shortcut along the tracks is not worth the very present risk of being killed or maimed. "
06archerd was the same guy that had something like 134 bid retractions (which are against the rules) on ebay in a six month period, then got mad when his account was suspended. A real mature teenager.
Jeff
I have not seen nor heard of this clip either. And now I am curious…Whether I should be or not, I’m not sure. But it’s better to watch it once and get it out of the system.
Are you really sure about that? Do you really want to watch someone die? Someone who left home for work that morning hopefully said goodbye to her husband and kids, each of them not knowing they would never see the other again.
I’ve never seen anyone killed by a train. I’ve felt it. I’ve heard it. I’ve got to see them just before they die. I’ve had to deal with the aftermath of it. And I would give anything to have never experienced it, to have the memory of each fatality that is now permanently etched in my mind be deleted forever.
So be sure…be very sure.
Well no need to reply in any language to such a trashy comment. They say a person’s words leads to the heart and yours 06Archerd needs to be kinder.
If it was not for sign language that got me an education at 6 years old, I would be completely uneducated and unable to function in society.
I tried too hard to let this slide but hurts inside. There. Ive said it. Now I can move on to healthier things in the hobby besides defending against such flammatory comments.
Im surprised this thread came back to life. Too bad it did.
Regarding the desire to watch a human fatality versus a truck or train… DONT.
There are nights I sweat out dreams with the sights of people turned to stew and splashed blood from such encounters.
Safety Valve,
You are 10x the man that 06archerd is. You responded compssionately to someone who seems to have no compssion for anyone else…not an easy thing to do.
Redneck and Train freak…
Why on earth would you want to watch a suicide?
I have the clip, she says “good bye, Mike”, waves at her friends, and step into the path of a train…at the last fraction of a second, she put her hands out towards the train, as if to push away from it,you get the sense she realized to late that what she was doing is forever…her friends are screaming, the engineer didnt have a chance to even react beyond a horn blast…it is a very distrubing clip…what she does is intentional, she makes sure her friends, and the guy taping trains see her, she walks directly in front of the camera, totally unexpected, turns, waves and speaks, then steps back and is gone…
Sad part is she is a very pretty girl, and one finds it hard to imagine why some one so pretty and so young would want to die like this.
With three daughters of my own, it tears at my heart and soul everytime I see it.
If your looking for the “thrill” of seeing a real death, you need some professional help.
Ed
Ed I’ve seen the vid you’re talking about, rest assured its a fake.
Notice how as soon as she steps onto the track the headlight just “Pops” on? thats because its a spotlight just off camera, also watch that the shadow line of the train “headlight” does not move even as the train appears moving across the screen, also no train noise or horn whatsoever and that the train AND noise just suddenly and instantly appears and hits her. No Doepler effect at all. Someone on the site I found it claims this was from some Finnish independant movie. Looks like a cheap Indie to me.
Good video work . Very questionable taste.