It is very difficult to get hit and killed on a train track ——unless it is a suicide.
True, especially there. Used to live very near there, no way you would not know the train was coming.
It is even easier not to get killed by a train: don’t walk on the freaking track!
I know of at least two people here in Maine killed while listening to ipod with headphones. One lived next to the train tracks.
Not necessarily. A LOT of Obama voter types will clamp on their headphones, stir down the track and assume they will hear the train or the train will see them.
I think he was railroaded...
“It is very difficult to get hit and killed on a train track ——unless it is a suicide.”
Or stupid. I’ve seen more than one “photographer” dart across the track to try to get a better angle at the last second. Sooner or later, I’m going to hear about somebody tripping and getting hit.
I took an Amtrak train last month and learn that suicide by Amtrak is apparently quite common. I met several passengers who rode regularly who have been on a train when it hit someone. One mentioned that they choose Amtrak not only for the extra attention it gets, but because they are on a predictable schedule and they can even track a train online to find out if it’s on schedule.
Not really. We have two or three people a year here who get killed by trains. Mostly it’s a serious case of stupid, although suicides do happen.