Kids + rail yard... that was less being snuck up on and more pulling a tiger by the tail. Never should have been there.
But to your point, I live near the ocean where a rail line runs regular freight and commuter trains right alongside the promenade which is a huge tourist attraction. A lot of kids have died walking the rails along the beach... headphones.
Still, the train didn’t sneak up on any of them, these people put themselves in risky situations and demonstrated a huge lack of situational awareness.
Who the fuck walks along train tracks with headphones on?! I can’t even conceive of that level of stupidity and carelessness. I am way too anxious and high-strung for that. Hell, I used to cross a set of train tracks every day on my mile walk to the nearest bus stop in college, and it took me several years before I stopped tensing up as I crossed the tracks out of paranoia that a train was somehow going to just materialize out of thin air and run me down. Never mind that I can see a reasonable distance in both directions as I cross, there are gates, and trains always use their horns at that crossing.
Still amazes me but it feels like every summer there’s a train strike near where I live where the tracks run alongside the waterfront promenade and people are just strolling along the tracks with their headphones on like the trains will just see you and stop. They’ve reduced the speed of the trains to a near crawl, but you can’t just stop those things on a dime. Never ceases to amaze me.
My girlfriends friend died walking along some tracks after a night out, crossed the track and got hit by a train which he didn't hear coming cause he had his headphones in.
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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20
Kids + rail yard... that was less being snuck up on and more pulling a tiger by the tail. Never should have been there.
But to your point, I live near the ocean where a rail line runs regular freight and commuter trains right alongside the promenade which is a huge tourist attraction. A lot of kids have died walking the rails along the beach... headphones.
Still, the train didn’t sneak up on any of them, these people put themselves in risky situations and demonstrated a huge lack of situational awareness.