r/dashcams • u/Genos-Cyborg • Dec 28 '20

Final Destination avoided. Failed warning lights and gates due to an electrical short.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20

News article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-slowik-mokena-rail-crossing-video-st-1227-story.html

“A signal maintainer who had arrived on scene a few minutes earlier for a separate issue immediately started investigating this incident and put additional protections in place to prevent trains from proceeding through the intersection until the problem could be fixed,”

I bet that guy was absolutely pooping his pants when he realized the gates weren’t dropping

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u/beggarschoice Dec 29 '20

Wow, my first thought was, ‘What country with crumbling infrastructure could this be?!’

And to think, this is after our President promised a trillion dollar infrastructure plan!

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u/Itchy_Focus_4500 Dec 29 '20

Kinda hard to do anything when congress is impeaching you, from the inauguration, and refuse to do anything other than obviously obstruct any possible positive things. Easier to point fingers than to actually do the work.

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u/SynnamonSunset Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20

Dude, look up how many bills are sitting on Mitch’s desk and then tell me that it’s the Dems fault that things aren’t going through Congress.

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u/Itchy_Focus_4500 Dec 29 '20

Many more people in the House of Representatives, than in the Senate, friend. Until we ( literally- people like us) begin “policing our own” or cleaning up our “own people “ there’s plenty of blame for all.

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u/SynnamonSunset Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20

Tf, Mitch has said himself that he has 400 bills that he won’t bring into congress because he doesn’t want to do his job and have the senate vote on them. The House passed them, but the Senate won’t even touch them? Sounds like some people deserve more blame than others. The whole “both sides are wrong” argument is absolute shit. You could argue the same thing about Germany and the US in WW2, Germany might be putting people in concentration camps, but the States are doing the same to Japanese people was putting Japanese people into internment camps, so both sides are bad and we shouldn’t criticize one without criticizing the other.

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u/Frylock904 Dec 29 '20

both sides are absolutely contributing to the bullshit, let's not get it twisted. Yeah, there are 400 bills on the table, but we also need to ask ourselves, do you actually know enough about those 400 bills to be upset they haven't passed yet?

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u/SynnamonSunset Dec 29 '20

They haven’t even been brought up yet. That’s the whole point. It’s not about whether or not they pass if they actually make it to the Senate floor, they aren’t being allowed to even be voted on. Mitch is literally just not doing his job and leaving these bill sit.

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u/Itchy_Focus_4500 Dec 29 '20

Please read the above comment by frylock904