Posted on 07/21/2022 3:22:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives
That’s the Orange line. It’s the new section that runs through Somerville, Medford & Malden.
He/she was probably one of those transgender swimmers trying to win a medal.
No crocs to worry about, just how deep is it where she jumped I wonder . Bold move on her part .
She planned to drive her Tesla but it caught fire so she took the train. Then the train burned up.
TV at the hospital was showing a rerun of CHiPS where Ponch leaped from a truck as it blew up in a forty foot fireball. They changed to one of MacGyver jumping off a burning car just before it crashed into a dynamite semi.
She decided to leaf through the Reader’s Digest instead.
No one cares about orange line - working class neighborhoods north of Boston - those trains are from the early 80s, I believe - I was 12 when I first rode on them - I’m now 52. The Red line trains have been replaced and the stations revamped several times in the last 30 years - probably because that line serves Cambridge and Harvard and Tufts. Have to look good for the rich elites.
Is that the red line?
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It’s the Orange Line on a bridge over the Mystic River. Train was making a run Downtown Boston heading north.
Just like the Chinese electric buses Albuquerque bought. They were so bad the Uber lib mayor sued and returned them.
Look at the subway train in question - it’s rustier than a derelict Liberian freighter and it clearly dates to at least the 1980s.
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You’re close. The cars are actually from the mid 1970s! And, yes, they’re rusted hulks.
After a public train, she was probably thinking, “Boats? I don’t need no stinkin’ boats….” And good on her. OR…she was carrying drugs and didn’t want to risk a 2nd close encounter.
I grew up in the Boston area and I probably rode that same Orange Line car back in the 1970s.
I grew up in the Boston area and I probably rode that same Orange Line car back in the 1970s.
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Those cars have that plastic fake woodgrain paneling on the dividers inside the car. Nothing says 1970’s like fake woodgrain paneling, it was on everything; cars, TV sets, stereos. Well, that, and of course shag carpet. But shag carpet inside a subway car would be an unreal hygienic disaster.
Yeah I shouldn’t have cast such a cynical suspicion on why she refused the boat ride back, maybe she was just a great athlete and who was, as another poster said, proudly self sufficient. But why not accept the boat ride and have them arrange for you a ride home? Wouldn’t any cell phone she had been ruined from the swim leaving her without communication? Altogether her actions seemed a bit over the top and dramatic to the situation unless she had something to hide.
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