We had a similar incident in our neighborhood.
The CSX was repairing the grade crossing and they had closed the road while they were digging out the area around the rails, leaving the rails standing on little skinny pillars of asphalt with three big holes in the ground.
We're walking our dogs and notice that already by the side of the road is a car that tried to drive across and tore its oil pan out . . . a bunch of guys had dragged it off the tracks.
Well, along comes this young guy in a Jeep - and he decides, hey, he's got 4 wheel drive, he's going to go over the crossing anyhow. We're frantically waving our arms for him to stop, he ignores us, drives around the barricade, and promptly takes a nosedive into the first hole, and gets his bumper jammed under the first rail.
THEN we hear the whistle . . . 2 crossings away . . .
I sprinted home (about half a block) and tore back with the Expedition and the logging chain. Back it up to the Jeep, meanwhile the guy is still sitting gripping the wheel like a deer in the headlights. My husband physically DRAGGED him out of the car as the locomotive came around the curve.
Fortunately CSX was operating under a "go slow" order while the crossing was being repaired, and the engineer was able to bring the train to a stop about 50 feet short of the Jeep, because I don't think we could have dragged the Jeep free in time. Engineer was spittin mad, we're all just shaking our heads, and my husband puts his hand on the boy's shoulder and says, "You be sure you go to church this Sunday, son."
“You be sure you go to church this Sunday, son.”
and
“Be sure to change your pants when you get home, son.”
Lol.
Good Lord - sometimes, you just gotta shake your head at other people’s stupidity.
Good story!
I guess he probably didn't need the tell the kid to go home and change his underwear, too. ;o)
The stupidity of some folks is just breathtaking, isn't it?