Posted on 01/19/2015 8:13:05 AM PST by BenLurkin
Police confirmed Sunday that reality TV star and fitness model George Gregory “Greg” Plitt Jr. was with a small camera crew when he was struck and killed by a Metrolink train Saturday afternoon.
Burbank police Sgt. Chris Canales told City News Service that Plitt was with three or four people when he was struck by a southbound train on tracks near Front Street, just north of the Burbank Metrolink Station, at 4:05 p.m. Saturday. Plitt was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Msn vs Train
A new show that didn’t last long enough to get on cable TV
I saw an IR film of reportedly a young woman getting creamed by a train...
Either she was distracted or wearing headphones, couldn’t tell for sure. A train passed from her right and she proceeded across a crossing of some kind and was too far across when she realized one was coming from her left...
The IR footage indicated that it was gonna be quite the mess to clean up.
Ha!!....long story!!
Had a good friend...my cousin killed in a train accident. Never understood that one.....
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
Be safe around trains...
bump!
Unnngh!!!
Stop, look and listen is taught for roads. But most people don’t live near railroad tracks. And most of the time, railroad tracks are empty, so there isn’t that sense of danger a road presents. (Although near city tracks with commuter trains all the time, I would think people would be more careful).
But a lot of kids, often wearing headphones, would get hit walking on tracks near a nearby park in spite of the signs. They put up a lot of fencing and that has reduced the deaths.
Got that season in the can.
Got that season in the can.
Probably trying to get a good hot of him with a train in the back ground.
Saw another article claiming that he was posing on one set of tracks and thought the train was on the next set over. Idea apparently was to flex or whatever right as the train went past him.
Turns out he was on the wrong track.
Or that’s the story.
He was a West Point graduate and Ranger.
That guy had guts!
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