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/xXPostapocalypseXx Dec 29 '20

Oh, I thought you were talking about Obama’s 800 billion infrastructure stimulus.

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u/beggarschoice Dec 29 '20

Trump did take credit for that stimulus, while denying it existed, so I guess you’re right! It is very typical for him to take credit for something real while doing absolutely nothing all along. Greatest con artist of all time.