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California teen dies in fatal game of 'chicken' [with a train]
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| April 14, 2013
| KATE STANTON
Posted on 04/14/2013 10:40:44 AM PDT by grundle
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To: skeeter
I was waiting for someone to post something along those lines.
Agreed.
To: Christie at the beach
People decide to roll the dice with their lives everyday. Well this dice didn't even have dots on it.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:13:46 AM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(www.cafenetamerica.com)
To: Oldexpat
WHhen I was fifteen we were filling empty C02 cartridges with black powder from firecrackers and detonating them in beehives.
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:13:56 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: grundle
Too bad it wasn’t the train that runs through Indio — they even stop for dogs — tied to the tracks of course
To: skeeter
Home made explosives were popular in my neighborhood too back in the early 1960s. Amazing we survived.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:17:45 AM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: Inyo-Mono
It didn’t always turn out well, though. One of the kids from our group ended up sans thumb, ring and middle finger.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:20:30 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: tsowellfan
->Well this dice didn't even have dots on it.
...maybe I should have posted chances..to have avoided the comedians. death is always of value so I don't find any need to play on someones words considering a loss of life.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:21:45 AM PDT
by
Christie at the beach
( If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.)
To: grundle
I feel for this kid’s friends and family.
I also feel very bad for the engineer who wasn’t able to stop. His life is going to be hell.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:23:21 AM PDT
by
POWERSBOOTHEFAN
(Causing trouble since 1976)
To: grundle
I feel for this kid’s friends and family.
I also feel very bad for the engineer who wasn’t able to stop. His life is going to be hell.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:24:38 AM PDT
by
POWERSBOOTHEFAN
(Causing trouble since 1976)
To: skeeter
Back when I was kids, we made our own powder.
Equal parts of carbon (or sugar) sulphur and potassium nitrate.
Your mileage may vary.
To: Christie at the beach
...maybe I should have posted chances..to have avoided the comedians. death is always of value so I don't find any need to play on someones words considering a loss of life. You know how many cancer stricken children there are saying their last goodbyes to their loved ones because they had no "dice" to roll? Maybe you find it comical that someone is stupid enough to expect a train to swerve to the right or left and avoid hitting him, I find it idiotic. There were NO dots on that dice. No chance. That's a fact.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:28:30 AM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(www.cafenetamerica.com)
To: grundle
Austin Christopher Price
R.I.P.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:41:40 AM PDT
by
Former Fetus
(Saved by grace through faith)
To: tsowellfan
Man it would be so nice to see the libs take this one example, extrapolate it to degree Z as usual, and conclude that our $100B “high speed rail” project should be scrapped — for the children.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:41:52 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: grundle
“Its very important that kids realize how dangerous the tracks are,” Alameda County Deputy April Luckett told reporters...”
No duh Einstien...the danger is why they do it - playing chicken with soap bubbles just doesn’t match up.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:43:12 AM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: tsowellfan
My post was saying that we all cannot control human beings if you/we desire freedom. It is theirs to make a safe call or a unsafe call/roll a dice with danger/ take a risk/ take a chance. This kid made a unsafe call which cost him his life..and hurt his family...It is very sad... you go ahead and judge others...not me. This family is suffering. The kid made a bad choice. What more do you want or expect of me to say. I know people who are sick who fight to live. I even said that in my initial comments. I even said people respect life while some do not take it seriously. It looks like you're mad because you cannot control other people's views of how they should see this. No need to page me any further on this topic.
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:46:42 AM PDT
by
Christie at the beach
( If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.)
To: jiggyboy
“Man it would be so nice to see the libs take this one example, extrapolate it to degree Z as usual, and conclude that our $100B high speed rail project should be scrapped for the children.”
It’s easy. Just refer to them as bullet trains. And mention the NRA (National Railway Association)
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posted on
04/14/2013 11:53:00 AM PDT
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: Oldexpat
We learned by age 3 to stay off the RR tracksIndeed. Mom and dad moved above a small-town tavern when dad got his first teaching job, and my "sandbox" was in the back lot about a half a block from the C&NW double-track main. Though I'd often wandered off - and been found, thank goodness - before the move, whichever parent or relative provided the "don't go by the trains" training (pun intended) was quite successful. I still remember seeing the trains regularly going by, but I never did go close to the tracks.
Way too many people who I otherwise credit with sense have shown no clue as to how long it takes most trains to stop.
(And yes, there have even been a select few who were stunned to find out that a locomotive has no steering wheel.)
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
04/14/2013 12:09:58 PM PDT
by
niteowl77
(Oh, crap.)
To: grundle
Sounds like a positive gene-pool adjustment.
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posted on
04/14/2013 12:12:00 PM PDT
by
wesagain
(The God #Elohim# of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
To: doorgunner69
Yeah, that kind of action cleans out the gene pool.
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posted on
04/14/2013 12:21:26 PM PDT
by
ThePatriotsFlag
( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
To: grundle
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posted on
04/14/2013 12:33:18 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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