Which company?
BLMA Models
Best site for watching AMTRAK Mooners in my area: The Truckee River canyon between Truckee and Reno. Kind of like riding through a Fig orchard, LOL!
Tom
AMTRAK’s not the only one to get mooned. My wife and I got married in 1982. Our honeymoon consisted of an AMTRAK trip to Denver (via UP), a ride behind 844 (8444 then) and a trip to SLC on the “Rio Grande Zephyr”. Several time’s doing that trip, we got mooned by rafters. I can distinctly remember one guy, who, upon seeing the train coming, stood up in his raft facing away from train wherupon he bent over and dropped trou. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the camera with me or I would have taken a perfect “moon shot”.
Andre
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department shut the event down:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/crowds-boyne-year-2092361-police-event
I wonder how long it will be before all fun is outlawed?
Let’s make that a clickable link http://www.ocregister.com/articles/crowds-boyne-year-2092361-police-event The pic in the newspaper had better looking folks than CNN!! [:D]
Why don’t I blame people for mooning Amtrak? [|(]
They were not outlawing the fun. They were simply trying to keep the people safe. The article said that a large crowd had gathered and a lot of alcohol was being consumed. Drunk people and railroad tracks don’t mix.
Our neurotic paranoid society is more obsessed with ,than concerned with, safety.
What would have happened if one of those drunks got hit by a train? Someone would have ended up getting sued. Either the city for not putting a stop to it before it got out of hand, or the railroad, for not traveling at a slow enough speed so as to stop in time to keep from hitting someone who didn’t belong on the tracks to begin with. The local PD was just doing it’s job, which is protecting society as a whole. Which includes the people who drive down that road, the railroad company and the everyone who was out having a good time.
Good grief! [sigh]I guess, for today’s “more lax” standards, I’m the oddball here. In the 70s, here in Florida, mooners that were caught or reported were often immedietly arrested “pronto” and charged with a misdemeanor. Kids involved…a felony!
I’m imagining a family taking a trip on Amtrak. I’m sure that while some of the passengers might get a chuckle out of seeing a group of mooners…I would think (and strongly hope) that the parents of the young kids riding along would be quite offended at having their kids look at a collection of stinky, underwearless “keesters” being flashed at them just yards outside of their train’s windows. Great examples of adults acting responsibly?
How many mooners have been hit by trains? Should not the question be, "why is this tolerated?" Many of us think that it’s harmless fun but are so hypocritical about that view when our kids, espeically teens, get out and do it. Then all of a sudden parents, school officials, and law enforcement become very concerned.
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I don’t see how this is “fun”. It;s rude, and disgusting. And for spme people, it’s not so much "moon"ing as "Planet"ing.
Really, as I said, why don’t I blame them for mooning Amtrak?
So, my answer:
Amtrak is following gov. protocal in that they refuse to get a better paint scheme. Throw some color into those suckers, ya know. Add some red, maybe a red base w/ thick white and blue stripes. For pete’s sake, the cars are so boring! I’d join in if I could go out there and not get caught, LOL.
Actually, I like them. Especially the newer Blue wave patterns like the Genisisii have and the Dash 8.
And bitter experience tells me that a mere cyclone fence is little or no obstacle to a determined drunken idiot, which these mooners appear to be.
Earlier on in the thread, you bemoaned all the fun being outlawed - so you wouldn’t object if me and a few thousand of my closest drunken mates all turned up at your house and displayed our arses to you, would you?
That’d be fun, wouldn’t it?
Or maybe we could do it to you while you’re at work. If it’s fun for the train crew to cop an eyefull while they’re at work, it should be just as funny for you, eh?
Mark.
What a completely moronic event. Any excuse to get drunk and stupid, and people flock to it in droves.
The fence is the only thing keeping these people from winning Darwin awards.
Mark:
Your proposal has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand. The perpetrators of the annual celebration that so annoys you, moronic as it may be, have never wandered residential neighborhoods mooning people’s homes.
To address the actual events, I would not be offended in the slightest if I was a passenger on the train, even if acompanied by my grandchildren.
If you believe that the sight of the skin on a person’s buttocks is so psychologically damaging you had better stay away from the beach or public pools.
I am now finished with this argument. I will not post again.
How does my proposal differ from yours? As far as I can see, the issue is that you claim this sort of idiotic behaviour is fun. So I suggested having some fun with you as the recipient. As I expected, you don’t want to play.
So? It’s in public. It’s directed at someone’s workplace - the train.
Yeah, Yeah. Whatever you reckon.
I don’t. I reckon that excusing mass displays of public drunkeness and nudity directed at an unwilling audience as “fun” might indicate some psychological damage, though.
Good idea - when you’re at the bottom of the hole, stop digging.
All the best,
Mark.
"Phoeble Wet wrote:"
How childish.