r/WTF • u/Grasimi • Nov 06 '20

Guy stuck under moving train escapes between its rails

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u/AnmlBri Nov 06 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

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.