Austin Christopher Price
R.I.P.
Posted on 04/14/2013 10:40:44 AM PDT by grundle
Austin Price, a 15-year-old sophomore at San Lorenzo High School in San Lorenzo, Calif., died Thursday playing a game of "chicken" with two friends on the train tracks near his school, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The northbound Amtrak train hit Price when he didn't move out of the way in time -- though his two companions weren't hurt.
Principal Tovi Scruggs said the "dangerous" train tracks were a popular hang out site for students.
"It's an ongoing concern," Scruggs said. "Tragedies don't happen frequently, but we know the tracks are not staying empty."
Prince's classmates told the Chronicle that boys at their school played "chicken" there "all the time."
"People won't be by the tracks anymore," one of Price's friends said.
“It’s very important that kids realize how dangerous the tracks are," Alameda County Deputy April Luckett told reporters, adding that parents need to "reiterate that to their children that they need to stay off the tracks."
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I was waiting for someone to post something along those lines.
Agreed.
Well this dice didn't even have dots on it.
What could possibly go wrong?
Too bad it wasn’t the train that runs through Indio — they even stop for dogs — tied to the tracks of course
Home made explosives were popular in my neighborhood too back in the early 1960s. Amazing we survived.
It didn’t always turn out well, though. One of the kids from our group ended up sans thumb, ring and middle finger.
...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.
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.
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.
Back when I was kids, we made our own powder.
Equal parts of carbon (or sugar) sulphur and potassium nitrate.
Your mileage may vary.
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.
Austin Christopher Price
R.I.P.
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 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.
“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)
Indeed. 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
Sounds like a positive gene-pool adjustment.
Yeah, that kind of action cleans out the gene pool.
The train won.
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