pretty much...
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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a few years ago, an ATC rider was hit (and killed on a railroad track) by a train. The family said the railroad company should know that people use it for ATCing, so the railroad is at fault.
Another teen lost her legs when she fell asleep SUNBATHING on a railroad bridge. The engineer tried to stop, but couldn't. The girl's parents said the train is at fault, because the engineer didn't stop in time.
a locomotive can't stop on a dime!! (I'm a railfan, so I know that you can stop even a small engine quickly.)
“... filling empty CO2 cartridges with black powder from firecrackers and detonating them in beehives”.
Your poor Mother. LOL!!
so sorry to hear that....
but really, who do you think is gonna win a game of chicken between a 0.015 ton kid and a 20,000 ton choochoo ?
sadly, its Darwin Award time...
No, a 3 day waiting period for trains using their own tracks!!
just think of what the cost would be...
well, both.
Breaking rocks in the hot sun,
He fought the train and the train won
(Repeat)
Listen up kids—the train always wins.
The kid’s single mistake: forgetting to ask the train if it wanted to play.
Sorry the kid died but that sounds like an advance for the gene pool.
Peer pressure, what’s not to love about it?
I did a lot of really stupid things as a kid (a few as an adult) but never played ‘chicken’ with a train.
Lost a friend at Ft. Benning. He wanted to pick up ‘duds’ on the mortar range. “Bad idea,” I thought. Couldn’t talk him out of it.
Too bad for his family and friends, losing him because he wanted to impress his friends.
pretty much...
I think a liberal would look at this and conclude if you both win and lose at something, you will immediately die.
Me, too. In those days, we were able to buy explosive components from hardware stores and pharmacies, load them into metal 35mm film canisters and make a hell of a racket.
Also, my father, who had a small construction company, used to send me down to the local hardware store on my Yamaha 80 to charge cases of dynamite, boxes of detonators, tie the whole mess onto the seat behind me and return to the job site.
I'm afraid to even mention what we did with firearms and knives.
I grew up near there, in the next town over. Those tracks have been there for years and there are signs all over warning people to stay off the tracks. I feel sorry for the kid and his family but he was old enough to know better.
Trains take a long time to stop and maybe that school needs to tell the kids who attend there that because it sure looks like the school needs to.
I have a box full of hundreds of them. We used to do the same thing.
They're long ovals with varying degrees of mint markings still visible.
Oh my gosh! Don't tell me that you would (Gulp!) fix the knives at the end of each firearm, therefore, fabricating an unregistered BAYONET (Gasp!) at the end of such firearms. Because that would have been horrible. Just horrible. /liberal
Darwin Award..... One less brain dead liberal to vote in California’s San Francisco Bay area elections....Don’t cry for him California, he’s done us all a favor.
We also sniped unarmored fellow humans with BB guns from the protection provided by a Christmas tree fort.
Wow, dynamite. Hey, I had a Yamaha 80 too! Rode it from 1965 to 1968.
Tied.
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