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myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people10 months ago

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.

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catdla1 (2635) response was accepted on 3/8/2009.
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1. myLot reputation of 99/100. ElicBxn (15166)   ranked 1,835 out of 35,175 in people   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!


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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.


myLot reputation of 99/100. ElicBxn (15166)   ranked 1,835 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 93/100. mibngold (1525)   ranked 525 out of 35,175 in people   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.


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 95/100. Lakota12 (16898)   ranked 203 out of 35,175 in people   10 months ago

lololol thaey sure are hard to miss! was she drunk?


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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.


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  10 months ago

Who knows. She wasn't to bright. A train being close enough to hit her is easy to spot.


myLot reputation of 95/100. Lakota12 (16898)   ranked 203 out of 35,175 in people  10 months ago

must of been and your right she had to see it but maybe didnt care!

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4. myLot reputation of 99/100. catdla1 (2635)   ranked 493 out of 35,175 in people   10 months ago

Makes you wonder what people are thinking, huh? Most the time I guess we'll never know. Living in Oklahoma, we have small oil wells dotting the landscape. All of them are surrounded by fences, barbed wire and danger signs. A week or so ago, two 17 year olds decided it would be fun to 'ride' them like a see-saw. One young man ended up getting his arm caught in the gears and lost his arm. It was sad that it happened, but you have to wonder what on earth he was thinking. And, he's still in the gene pool.


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 94/100. OreoCookie3 (18251)   ranked 435 out of 35,175 in people   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.


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 96/100. BarBaraPrz (3357)   ranked 4,549 out of 35,175 in people   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?)


myLot reputation of 91/100. KatieDidit (887)   ranked 4,939 out of 35,175 in people  10 months ago

I remember that movie. It was made here where I live. It's a pretty good "coming of age movie."happy


myLot reputation of 96/100. BarBaraPrz (3357)   ranked 4,549 out of 35,175 in people  10 months ago

It was, wasn't it? Did you see any of the filming or the stars?


myLot reputation of 91/100. KatieDidit (887)   ranked 4,939 out of 35,175 in people  10 months ago

No I didn't. In the past I've always made sure to stay away from wherever they were filming movies. To me they were just in my way and I don't have a particular desire to meet any stars. I don't know them, don't have anything to say to them so there was no point.

Now however since they've started putting all those special features on DVD where they show parts of the film making process I'm a lot more interested in it. I always watch those and listen to the commentary on the movies. Why do this, how did they do that etc.

Since I've learned a whole lot more about movie making now I think it would be kinda fun just to go and watch them for a bit at work. Not just the actors but everyone else as well. They just need to bring another film here!

If I were young and starting over I think I'd love a career working with films. My ideal jobs would be finding the locations, the towns, the houses etc to set them in OR dressing up the sets...finding the right furniture, cars etc. It would be like a really cool scavenger hunt and I'd get paid for it! lol


myLot reputation of 96/100. BarBaraPrz (3357)   ranked 4,549 out of 35,175 in people  10 months ago

Working on set is a lot of "Hurry up and wait".


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 97/100. deebomb (8969)   ranked 1,053 out of 35,175 in people   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.


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 96/100. patriciaqualls (4606)   ranked 1,503 out of 35,175 in people   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.


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 91/100. danrunsfast614 (1064)   ranked 2,553 out of 35,175 in people   10 months ago

Yeah, because it is great to make fun of people who have just died, and whose families probably miss them...


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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. myLot reputation of 97/100. Aurone (2549)   ranked 742 out of 35,175 in people   10 months ago

Wow, sometimes its hard to believe that people can be that stupid. They always amaze me.


myLot reputation of 95/100. TheCatLady (1587)   ranked 328 out of 35,175 in people  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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