Posted on 09/16/2012 7:01:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A woman apparently walking and looking down at her cellphone was fatally struck by an Amtrak train in Ventura on Saturday.
Responding officers said they found the victim, identified only as a 28-year-old woman from Ventura, underneath the train. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the train conductor, the southbound train was traveling at about 40 mph around 5:15 p.m. as it approached the Amtrak station near the Ventura County Fairgrounds on Harbor Boulevard, when the victim was seen walking on the tracks.
The conductor began sounding the warning horn, but the victim appeared to be looking down at a cellphone and did not make any attempts to get off of the tracks, police said. The conductor said he tried to make an emergency stop, but could not get the train to stop in time.
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So Tolstoy being a man wrote the ending of Anna Karenina wrong.
Check for a baby. Around me most of these young women on phones are babysitters who don’t give a dam about the kids because they are too busy talking on the phone all day.
Odd to learn from FR about something that happened a mile from my house!
Not at all. She'll still vote for Obama.
I’m talking about the real world and trends and generalizations. There are exceptions to every rule.
One day they went awalkin'
Along the railroad track
They were swishin', not lookin'
Toot! Toot!
They never came back
You & i both know she'll still vote.
People are going nuts with cellphones,they need to get a life.
Are there cellphones in the afterlife? Walk these tracks and find out.
Oh no, not a problem. She'll still be voting.
She may be gone but her name will live will continue to be shown on the voter rolls forever.
I have never gotten how someone can be hit by a train, unless they are trying to run across before it comes.
The tracks vibrate so even if you were hard of hearing you’d feel movement.
The train is really loud, the conductor will hang on the whistle to get your attention, its really really loud.
So how can someone be distracted by all that commotion?
Maybe she was deaf? I had just closed up at the Budweiser distributor I worked at and stepped out the front door to see a serious bust going down just a little ways down the street. Cops with weapons drawn carefully approaching a car that one had pulled over.
I saw a cop waving me back and ducked back inside the doorway. Peeking out I saw a cop still frantically waving someone back and turned to see a woman walking down the street evidently oblivious to what was going on. I was much closer to her and yelled at her to get over here and explained what was going on. It turned out she was legally blind and couldn’t see anything that far down the road.
The bust turned out to be a carload of methamphetafaggots, one of whom was reported brandishing a gun on main street. This was a fine example of how criminal rights should be handled. They had the right to do exactly WTF the cops told them to do or get their heads blown off! I enjoyed seeing each of the commanded one at a time to get out, place hands on head and lay face down in the road!
There's not much let of her but an oil spot on the tracks. I find no sympathy for her stupidity.
Here's one for ya. Very recently a drunk at a bar (across from the tracks in our small downtown area) decided to "slap" the train as it was rolling by.
The train "slapped" back. He died in front of a crowd in front of the bar.
Well, hum. The stupidity of some is amazing.
I saw a sign once in a rural town at the railroad crossing that said “if there is a tie, we win”
Bain Capital caused her death.
Ahhhh...Mills Brothers. Love that song.
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