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Woman run down by freight train while running on the tracks with headphones on
The Daily Mail ^ | April 10, 2014 | Ryan Gorman

Posted on 04/11/2014 9:17:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A California woman was struck and killed Wednesday by a freight train while wearing headphones as she jogged along busy tracks near a popular hiking trail.

Janaki Rose Hayes, 27, of Truckee, was wearing headphones that fully covered her ears and did not hear the blaring horn as the steel beast bared down on her around 1.45 p.m., police said.

Investigators believe she was jogging towards a trail for the bulk of her workout and that the death was an accident, sources told the Sacramento Bee.

Hayes, who had recently moved from Oregon to the small town just north of Lake Tahoe, was just short of the pedestrian bridge when the Union Pacific train caught up to her, cops said.

‘We concluded from our investigation that her intent was to cross the river at some point to access the Legacy Trail for a jog,’ Police Chief Adam McGill in a news release.

She was headed westbound on the rails. The operators slowed the train but could not stop in time to avoid hitting her.

‘It appears the train operators did not contribute to this accident and did all they could to avoid it,’ said McGill.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: california; darwinaward; janakirosehayes; stupid; truckee
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To: Drawsing

You write in English? You’re a member of a dying breed.


41 posted on 04/11/2014 10:30:59 AM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

That was exactly my reaction.
My daughter lives about 500 ft from a railroad track (thankfully only about 2 trains a day come past).
You can feel the “vibe” in the house.


42 posted on 04/11/2014 10:34:37 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: PGR88
How do you run on train tracks? I run a lot ...
Thirty two years for me. NEVER even considered running on train tracks.
43 posted on 04/11/2014 10:38:08 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Headphones
44 posted on 04/11/2014 10:40:47 AM PDT by Don W (Know what you WANT. Know what you NEED. Know the DIFFERENCE!)
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To: a fool in paradise
Jog, they say. It’ll extend your life, they say.

Things like this never happen when I sleep on the sofa.

45 posted on 04/11/2014 10:41:26 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Flick Lives

Staying in bed isn’t so healthy after all...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jonathan-toubin-talks-for-the-first-time-about-his-freak-accident-20120129

“The DJ was hit by a cab that crashed into his hotel room while he was sleeping.”


46 posted on 04/11/2014 10:43:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Flick Lives
That's what you think...

47 posted on 04/11/2014 10:44:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
She couldn’t feel the vibrations?

She probably thought her headphones had really good bass response.

48 posted on 04/11/2014 10:45:05 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: freedomlover
were you looking for me?


49 posted on 04/11/2014 11:03:17 AM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Maybe she was listening to the Beach Boys. Good good good good vibrations.....

But seriously I thought the same thing.

50 posted on 04/11/2014 11:06:15 AM PDT by BBell (The Blue Dog is Stupid)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Misogynist train! The Republicrats will outlaw those next.


51 posted on 04/11/2014 11:08:57 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"...and did not hear the blaring horn as the steel beast bared down on her..."

Did this "steel beast", belching thick, billowing, black smoke, have his eyes fixed on his prey, letting out a deep, gutteral growl before pouncing on the poor, innocent, doe-eyed victim?

This, ahem, "journalist"... needs to go back to writing dime-store novels.

52 posted on 04/11/2014 11:33:38 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Norm Lenhart
No, not all Cali women are stereotypes. I admit it. But you gotta admit that she sure does fir the clueless Valley Girl profile.

stereotype? the reason i said it would never happen in a red state is everyone knows red state women don't jog... they aren't into fitness... :)

53 posted on 04/11/2014 11:37:07 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Based on her expression and the plain background... maybe a driver's license photo but that expression... hmmm... Is it just me or did they find a mugshot to use for the article?

Pray for her and her family...

54 posted on 04/11/2014 11:44:41 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: latina4dubya

Well they don’t have the time to jog...unless it’s into the kitchen to make me a sammich! ;)


55 posted on 04/11/2014 11:44:57 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Best. Noise. Cancelling. Headphones. EVER.


56 posted on 04/11/2014 11:45:28 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: a fool in paradise
Jog, they say. It’ll extend your life, they say.

Not always, according to recent studies.
Certainly not when RWS (running while stupid)

57 posted on 04/11/2014 11:45:30 AM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: oldenuff2no
I'm sure there will now be litigation because it was not posted that trains run on train tracks.

Please don't give elected morons any new ideas.

They'll require up to date train schedules along the track every 1/4 mile...

58 posted on 04/11/2014 11:49:21 AM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”
- Robert A. Heinlein


59 posted on 04/11/2014 11:50:57 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Well, trains like to listen to their walkmans, too (dating myself).


60 posted on 04/11/2014 11:53:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The PASSING LANE is for PASSING, not DAWDLING)
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