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We all know what the Darwin award is. It goes to stupid people who get killed because they re ever so stupid.
A 49 year old woman was walking and went under the crossing arms on a railroad track. The idiot could time it right and got hit by a train. She almost made it across, but not quite. The not quite was her downfall.
I guess one more idiot takes herself out of the gene pool. Didn't she know that the arms being down mean a train is coming? Couldn't she see or hear the train? It's not like trains are tiny quiet things. They are kinda hard to miss.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/feb/28/woman-hit-and-killed-orlando-train/
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1. ElicBxn (15166) | 10 months ago | you don't hear about too many women getting Darwin awards - and at 49, she probably HAD left some genetic byproduct to soil the gene pool - but one can hope!
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | Let's hope she hadn't contributed to the gene pool. She probably had though. Most people have kids. I would love to leave my genes behind, but I can't, so I have fur kids. They don't breed either.
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ElicBxn (15166) | 10 months ago | I chose to remove my defective genes from the gene pool, sometimes intellegence gets removed with the bad stuff.
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2. mibngold (1525) | 10 months ago | Well, I have to tell you that my one girlfriend has a train that runs right by her house & she runs in front of it when it is pretty far away. When I was visiting her (we were about 15) she had me do the same thing & for years I had nightmares about getting my shoe stuck in the railroad ties. People aren't too bright, that is the bottom line.
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | In the movie Fried Green Tomatoes Buddy got his shoe caught in the tracks and got hit by a train. Bye bye Buddy.
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3. Lakota12 (16898) | 10 months ago | lololol thaey sure are hard to miss! was she drunk?
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | They didn't say if she was drunk. I'm sure they did a blood analysis to find out. The cops always want to know if people are drunk when they do stupid things.
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | Who knows. She wasn't to bright. A train being close enough to hit her is easy to spot.
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Lakota12 (16898) | 10 months ago | must of been and your right she had to see it but maybe didnt care!
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | Teens do crazy things on dares. They don't have the adult brains to tell them that such and such is hecka dangerous. I can understand a teen taking risks, but an adult? She was just plain stupid. And that stupid killed her.
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5. OreoCookie3 (18251) | 10 months ago | Sometimes the arms come down before there is ever any sound. One day I got scared to death. I didn't see the blinking light signaling a train was coming.. I was fixing to cross the tracks when the arm came down and hit me on the hood of my car... I was able to back up and get the arm off my car. It did scare me.
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | They said that she went under the arm. Someone must have seen it. I couldn't even imagine having to witness such a horrid thing.
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6. BarBaraPrz (3357) | 10 months ago | My first thought was that maybe it was deliberate, but as the story notes, she almost made it. Unfortunately, "almost" only counts in horseshoes. I wonder if she was knocked out of her Keds? (Remember the movie Stand By Me?)
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BarBaraPrz (3357) | 10 months ago | It was, wasn't it? Did you see any of the filming or the stars?
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BarBaraPrz (3357) | 10 months ago | Working on set is a lot of "Hurry up and wait".
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | Almost... Almost counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. I saw Stand By Me years ago and don't remember it.
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7. deebomb (8969) | 10 months ago | Some people just don't think that rules or such things as those Rail road crossing arms apply to them. We have a couple of crossing that set close to a main road with traffic lights. You would be surprised at how many people will set on the railroad tracts waiting for the light to change. I'm surprised there aren't more killed by trains. Too many people thing they can beat the train. Some idiots even try crawling under setting trains to cross the tracts and get killed when the train starts moving.
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | I never stop on a train track. Or I should say, when I drove I never did that. I have always been cautious. I value my life and want to make it to 120.
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8. patriciaqualls (4606) | 10 months ago | Hello TheCatLady, That is just terrible!!! She must have thought that she could make it that time. I don't know what she would be thinking to be doing that I guess she wasn't thinking.
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | Obvious she thought she could make it. But why she would take a chance when a train was coming? It is just plain poor judgment. And now because of it she is dead.
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9. danrunsfast614 (1064) | 10 months ago | Yeah, because it is great to make fun of people who have just died, and whose families probably miss them...
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | I'm sure her family will miss her.
It's a newsworthy story because she disregards the law and didn't use common sense and consequently she is dead.
The crossing arms come down for a reason. Same with the bells and flashing lights. A train is coming and people are expected to wait a few minutes for it to go by. Only an idiot would ignore all three warnings and try to make it across to save a few minutes.
Now the train driver has to live with the knowledge that he killed someone. Even if he couldn't help it, it must still give him nightmares. Also all the people who witnessed it, must be in total shock to see such a thing.
If she had just used common sense she would still be alive.
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10. Aurone (2549) | 10 months ago | Wow, sometimes its hard to believe that people can be that stupid. They always amaze me.
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TheCatLady (1587) | 10 months ago | Some people are stupid. Actually a lot of people are stupid. Most stupid people have enough sense not to play chicken with a train. I used to work with retarded women and they knew how to wait and obey the lights at intersections. We didn't have trains in my area, but it's the same concept. This woman wasn't retarded, she was just plain stupid. Stupid killed her.
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