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Train crash in California - Get your CTRL C & CTRL V News right here

  • 24-02-2015 4:21pm
    #1
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭


    Oh God! :eek:

    I've copied the link below:
    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/dozens-hurt-after-train-crash-in-california-31018450.html

    I for one am sad that people were hurt and also sad that the trains got smashed up

    Hey look, I've quoted a section of the news article within the post about the article:
    The truck became fully engulfed in flames. A US TV news helicopter is showing fire fighters treating numerous people at the scene

    Numerous people. Awful stuff. At least there have been no casualties reported.
    That's my opinion After Hours.
    Whats yours?

    EDIT: You're hur-hur-hur :)


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  • #2
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Right...


  • #3
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,866 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Errr there have been casualties?
    I think you mean there have been (for now) no fatalities.
    Still seems like a bit of a pointless thread tbh.


  • #4
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    It's a catapostrophe!


  • #5
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    bear1 wrote: »
    Errr there have been casualties?
    I think you mean there have been (for now) no fatalities.
    Still seems like a bit of a pointless thread tbh.
    It's almost like the thread has already been derailed.


  • #6
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    No doubt, this is Enda Kenny's fault somehow.


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  • #7
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    I no longer click on links providing details of any crash. I learned my lesson after Porsche Girl.


  • #8
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Killer Wench wrote: »
    I no longer click on links providing details of any crash. I learned my lesson after Porsche Girl.

    Porsche girl?


  • #9
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Don't do it. Don't do it.


  • #10
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    ......the fúck is the OP raving about now ?


  • #11
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Cormac... wrote: »
    Numerous people. Awful stuff. At least there have been no casualties reported.
    That's my opinion After Hours.
    Whats yours?

    EDIT: You're hur-hur-hur :)
    You need an opinion on a train crash???


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  • #12
    AndonHandon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    crazygeryy wrote: »
    Porsche girl?

    I googled it. Reason #1464257 to remove anonymity from the internet.


  • #13
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    This thread is a bigger train wreck.


  • #14
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Man gets hit by train.

    Still gives me nightmares


  • #15
    elefant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭elefant


    Read on the news earlier that there are collisions involving trains in the United States ONCE EVERY 3 HOURS! :eek:


  • #16
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,866 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    AndonHandon wrote: »
    I googled it. Reason #1464257 to remove anonymity from the internet.

    Luckily I just clicked the wiki link. Effing terrible.


  • #17
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    elefant wrote: »
    Read on the news earlier that there are collisions involving trains in the United States ONCE EVERY 3 HOURS! :eek:

    We have almost a quarter million grade crossings, and no small amount of idiot drivers and pedestrians to use them, I'm afraid.

    What irritates me is that we have a pedestrian killed about once every six weeks here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every time it happens, there are calls for more fences, more signs, more safety equipment. How about this? "STAY THE HELL OFF THE TRACKS!!!"

    There is no vehicle as easy to avoid being killed by than a train. The things can weigh a couple thousand tons, are fifteen feet high, they are lit up like a christmas tree, and you can hear them coming long before they get to you. Oh, and they tend not to come at you from surprise directions or places, given that they, you know, have tracks. And you know you will lose if you meet one. This is one of those cases of Darwinian selection.

    As to the crash for the OP, this was an odd one. It seems that the driver went slightly nuts, and started driving down the tracks, it wasn't a typical grade crossing accident of someone trying to beat the train and losing, or not realising that they couldn't clear the tracks due to traffic.


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