Posted on 12/19/2019 10:44:06 AM PST by DFG
In western Massachusetts, a group of a dozen or so climate activists tried to stop a trainload of coal heading for a power plant in New Hampshire…by standing on the railroad tracks in front of the train. Evidently they thought the train could, and would, screech to a halt. This short video is dark and doesn’t show much, but it conveys some sense of why this was a poor idea:
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Whoopsie.
If these nitwits were really serious, they would force the issue by tying themselves to the railroad tracks.
I’ll be glad to help their cause by donating all the rope they need.
Eliminating petroleum based fuels will destroy our way of life, which is really their unstated goal.
No mention of how they got to the scene of the folly?
Not once did we get to see a single blood splatter.
I hear they tried to stop a train with a flashlight. Brilliant! We’re they wearing really heavy parkas? Thought so.
Google Brian Wilson (not the Beach Boy) and Concord Naval Weapons Depot.
He went home from the protest a lot shorter than he arrived.
Then he sued and got a payday.
My model for what happened was that he and other protesters knew full well, at least thirty seconds before the train reached the protest site, that the train could not, and therefore would not, stop, but wanted to film a dramatic “hair’s breadth escape” from the oncoming train. Which they almost did. The only flaw in the plan was he tripped on the tracks or the rail, and got his legs cut off.
There comes a time when you have a duty of self-care to assume that the train coming down the track at you is not going to stop, and to take protective action. That time is long before the train gets there.
We’re they wearing really heavy parkas?
Made with petroleum.
CLIMAGEDDONISTS!
It may not stop global warming, but it will stop New Hampshire warming.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Their focus on Carbon Dioxide is diverting focus and funding from real pollutants.
In the last few decades the standard has become ‘Knew or should have known’ in liability law suits.
So, why shouldn’t that standard apply to the victim as well?
Why shouldn’t the guy on the tracks know or should have known that the train could not stop in the distance from when the engineer can see the man on the tracks to when the train will run over the man?
Also, since the man on the tracks is trespassing why should the railroad have any responsibility for injuries to an adult who knows or should have known that they are trespassing in a dangerous area?
My worry is that they train will it the “object” on the tracks and derail the train causing a major accident.
Knowing these idiots might do something stupid, they might tie themselves to the track with chains or some other hard object which could indeed cause a derailment.
It is called sabotage and even terrorism.
Some people tried to do this same thing at Naval Weapons Station Concord (California) back in 1986. The guy ended up getting his legs severed by the train. I believe the train conductor later sued the guy for emotional distress.
Remember that Leftists selectively ignore (or are full ignoramuses) about LOGIC, REASON, FACTS, TRUTH and BASIC PHYSICS
I assume nobody was killed because even leftist morons with ‘shit in their heads’ are likely to step out of the way of the train, and none actually have to conviction of becoming a martyr for what they say they believe.
‘Operation Lifesaver’ (Train Crossing Safety Awareness website)
They (organization) usually have a little Model RR table demonstration they take to fairs and such which shows the reality that : a multi-thousand ton train cannot stop in less than a quarter mile (if even).
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Union Pacific’s estimates of stopping distance say a loaded 100 car coal train weighing between 15000 and 19000 TONS takes as far as 2 1/2 miles to stop!
So even if the engineer saw people on the tracks 1/2 mile away and immediately began braking, no way the train could be stopped in time...
Railroads advertise railways are private property, and pedestrians are trespassing...Doing so is at your own risk and getting hit by a train ain’t pretty...
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