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Honor student, 17, is struck by freight train and loses both feet after lying down....
daily mail uk ^ | march 3, 2017 | Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

Posted on 03/03/2017 1:51:12 PM PST by Morgana

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To: Morgana

What a nightmare for the engineer to deal with.


41 posted on 03/03/2017 2:25:52 PM PST by albie
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To: Morgana
I'll bet it was part of a bet. I wonder how much he won?

At least he's better off than that 23-year old, new father, resident of Dominican Republic, who yesterday won $600 for chugging an entire bottle of Tequila, and immediately dropped dead of alcohol poisoning after collecting his winnings.

42 posted on 03/03/2017 2:27:15 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: Hot Tabasco

Or they were living with a hoarder and went insane


43 posted on 03/03/2017 2:27:16 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Vendome
Was he an honor student at Darwins Idiot Savantes?

He was such an honor student that he may have lain on the tracks in the wrong direction. Maybe he was trying for a suicide.

44 posted on 03/03/2017 2:27:17 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Morgana

Honor student at the Helen Keller School.


45 posted on 03/03/2017 2:27:32 PM PST by albie
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To: Morgana

Pretty much had to be drugs/alcohol involved, I would think. Although some sober ppl can be awfully stupid.....

Drug case back in the ‘70s involved a neighbor of mine getting himself killed on some train tracks.


46 posted on 03/03/2017 2:28:00 PM PST by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: Vendome; litehaus

47 posted on 03/03/2017 2:29:19 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: Vendome

“Was he an honor student at Darwins Idiot Savantes?”

Um no! It was at a fine school of Liberal thinking. Note he didn’t use the tracks as a pillow but a footrest!


48 posted on 03/03/2017 2:30:30 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Morgana

I did some stupid $#^* when I was 17... but this is just holy crap material.


49 posted on 03/03/2017 2:31:58 PM PST by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: Morgana

Sometimes the smartest are not the brightest. High IQ or diligent study is not always accompanied by sense and wisdom.


50 posted on 03/03/2017 2:33:11 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Responsibility2nd

Maybe he wanted to commit suicide but flinched at the not quite last instant.


51 posted on 03/03/2017 2:35:29 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Mears

I was a 17 year old boy once. Yeah, we played around train tracks. We didn’t lay down and drape our feet over them ... and we damn sure kept our eyes and ears open. Trains big and loud and will FXXK YOU UP if you don’t respect them.


52 posted on 03/03/2017 2:39:43 PM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is VERY Fake News)
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To: NorthMountain

We played around TRESTLES. Would get in the middle of a trestle and run like hell at the last minute to get off before “too late”.

Actually, I can remember doing that once. I was young and dumb then. But not that stupid. I was pretty chicken. I made sure I got off like a minute before the train even got to the trestle. I thought; “Jeez, this is (bleeped) up. Not doing this again”.

And - since I’m still alive - I never did.


53 posted on 03/03/2017 2:45:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Morgana
It doesn't sound like an accident to me. Now, these three died in an accident:
54 posted on 03/03/2017 2:48:33 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Morgana

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


55 posted on 03/03/2017 2:52:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Life was so much better before Hart-Cellar.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I suppose it is possible that his sone was crazy enough to do that and the wife simply could not recover from grief and decided to end her life in the same way but then anything is possible. I would call this more than suspect.


56 posted on 03/03/2017 2:57:36 PM PST by RipSawyer (At the end of the day...the sun goes down.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
There was a movie production that was illegally shooting on a trestle, and failed to provide competent "lookouts", and a couple of crew members didn't make it off the bridge, and one was fatally struck by the train.

The other was somewhat more successful at flattening against the structure.

57 posted on 03/03/2017 3:01:59 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Morgana

“It took the locomotive between half a mile and three quarters of a mile to stop...”

How many feet is that?


58 posted on 03/03/2017 3:02:16 PM PST by moovova
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To: Morgana

On the bright side...the likelihood of him procreating has gone down dramatically.


59 posted on 03/03/2017 3:03:55 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: moovova

“It took the locomotive between half a mile and three quarters of a mile to stop...”

How many feet is that?

_______________________________________

Two less than you’d think.

Ba doom Shish!


60 posted on 03/03/2017 3:03:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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