Posted on 02/09/2017 8:19:21 AM PST by AC Beach Patrol
A speeding train barreled right through U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s (D-Conn.) Friday press conference that was, ironically, on commuter rail safety.
“Safety as you know it is paramount …” Blumenthal said just before an Amtrak train whizzed by near him, pausing the conference.
Video of the moment from KHON2 shows the politician at the Milford, Conn., train station on a narrow platform where he is standing near the yellow warning strip, while he and another man standing even closer to the tracks held a visual aid from blowing away as the train breezed by.
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Karma winning too.
But, it makes me wonder if it was this dangerous in Vietnam when the senator was fighting there ....
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To survive Vietnam, only to be run over by a train.
Wait...
FLASH video! ARGHH!
Bummer.
As the great philosopher Larry the Cable Guy says...How do you get hit by a train? It’s not like they can swerve to hit you.
Maybe Gorsuch should have told Blumenthal not to stand on the yellow line at the train station!
“CT Senator Richard Blumenthal almost hit by speeding train while talking about commuter rail safety”
Don’t tease us like that!
:)
**only to be run over by a train.***
That is what happened to “Mad” Tim Sullivan, former mayor of NYC who got the first “to protect our criminals” gun law passed registering and banning guns in NYC.
Stand in the middle of the tracks, Dickie so we can see you better.
that guy is one stupid mo-fo.
These days they try not to give much coverage to people who get hit by trains because trains are the favored means of transportation of the left. But believe me it happens much more frequently than most people are aware especially by Amtrack trains who are allowed to speed through heavily populated urban areas at much faster speeds than freight trains. And as you can see in the video... unless they are blowing their horns you do not hear them coming at those speeds.
There is a horn operating rule that reqiueres the engineer to blow one long blast when passing a station.
I’m deeply saddened.
What an idiot, there is a huge yellow line, which is textured that show the safe distance to stand on a platform It’s important because the train has handrails that can hang over the platform. If you notice the billboard is hanging over the tracks, and his idiot aide is s very nearly killed.
Idiotic statement. By that metric anyone who stands on a train platform is “almost hit”...yeah, if they were standing on the tracks instead...
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