Never mind driving -- maybe we need a law against walking while using a headset:
LAKE STATION, Ind. (AP) - Police say a freight train hit a 16-year-old Lake Station boy, hurling him 70 feet.
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He says Nathan Furlong was walking along the train tracks when he was hit about 2 p.m. Furlong is a sophomore at Edison High School.
Stills says the CSX train hit Furlong "square on." He says the teen apparently was wearing a stereo headset and may not have heard the train approaching behind him at about 37 mph.
I believe there already is a law about walking on the railroad tracks. And his real misdeed -- a teenager behaving like a teenager -- is beyond the law's reach.
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You'd think he would have felt the tracks "rumbling" a little wouldn't you? Perhaps he had suicidal tendencies.
He might well have been trying to kill himself. They say he turned around and saw the train coming. You'd think that'd give him enough time to get a little bit out of the way. I mean, it's not like a car that might swerve the same direction you jumped.
Instead, the train knocked him seventy feet. And he lived. You know, if I was that guy, and I was trying to kill myself, I would be really POed that I didn't. I mean, if walking in front of a train doesn't do it, what's a guy supposed to do?
They just aren't making trains the way they used to....
Oh, you CAN "feel" a train LONG before it's close enough to send you on an unexpected "ride".
Makes a DAMN good case for playing (any) music TOO DAMN LOUDLY.
But I've been beating that (relatively deceased) horse for SO long now, no one seems the least bit bothered by it (although noise is consistently listed as the primary concern for anyone living in any urban area).
Maybe it's all that loud music drowning me out...'ya think?
;)
B.G.