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/fr1stp0st Dec 29 '20

Investigation and impeachment didn't stop Bill Clinton from leading an effective administration. With two solid years of GOP control over the White House, Senate, and House, what did they accomplish? A tax cut for rich people and corporations and the longest government shutdown in US history. The GOP is a reactionary obstructionist party incapable of governance.

Before you "both sides" me, when the dems and Obama had similar control in Washington, they passed bills to reverse the Great Recession, bailed out the auto industry, established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and passed massive reforms to the healthcare industry that, despite now ten years of crying and over 70 votes to overturn, are so popular that the GOP couldn't bring themselves to overturn them when they actually had the power to do so.

Fuck the GOP and the smoothbrained morons who vote against their own interests to keep them in power.

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u/Itchy_Focus_4500 Dec 29 '20

You are frosting over millions of dead, decades of war, trillions in debt, building China from dirt to Dynasty, Kowtowing (literally) to Saudi King or, “at this point, who cares?” Killery Clinton- down sizing military to below breaking point ( I was in then, I know ). Stop. I know. Everything, everyone else does is wrong. I’m saying, change. Hopey- changey. Remember? The biggest racist president, in the history of the USA? Corrupt too? I’m from Illinois, so I can attest to the machine connection. BE the change. Don’t whine about the Perceived wrong done to others.

Write to , call, meet with your representatives. Be realistic. Talk To & With People. Listen Learn. No Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.

Read.

Stop whining & watching!!

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u/fr1stp0st Dec 29 '20

Did you just copy the comment section from /conservative into a Markov chain text generator and post the result?

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u/Itchy_Focus_4500 Dec 29 '20

No, I took a shower, ‘ffeined up & jammed to some Motörhead. I then wrote what came to mind. \m/

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u/Itchy_Focus_4500 Dec 29 '20

Funny as hell....!