Posted on 02/06/2019 3:35:25 PM PST by GOP Congress
Talk show host Doc Thompson was killed by a train, of all things. I cannot explain this logic. Why would anyone jog along a railroad track of an active rail line? This is a tragedy, and he leaves behind a family at his home in Arkansas. RIP, Doc.
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Odd.
RIP.
Did he know the Clintons?
Perhaps he was wearing headphones. This sort of needless accident happens with regularity among pedestrians and joggers.
I’m thinking the same thing. My first thought was in what context did he know or view the Clintons.
Could be an accident. But these days, who knows?
Sounds like ARKANCIDE to me.
The story says wireless earbuds were found at the scene so if he was wearing them he may have lost situational awareness.
Horrible. My husband is a runner and has music pumping through his ears when out. I told him this story.
He was at WRVA in Richmond, VA from 2007-2012 and spoke at the 9/12 Rally in DC in 2009. I called into his show several times... a great talk show host.
This is very sad to hear.
More likely, he was wearing “Ear Buds” and didn’t hear or feel anything, if the train was moving fast.
RIP, Doc.
Totally weird. Of all the places to run.
It is surmised that he wore them, as a pair of earphones was collected from near the site. But that increases the mystification that Doc would jog on an active rail line AND mask out the sound of a potentially fatal train hit.
This whole incident is really fishy. I am not at all a conspiratorial theorist, and Occam’s Razor indicates that this was indeed a tragic accident. Still, I don’t even jog on a road unless I’m facing traffic, and I know darn well NEVER to jog on any rail lines unless I know 100% that the line is inactive.
Again, his family is my first thought. Growing up without a dad is going to be hard for his children. But the whole situation is troubling.
My wife is a runner type and I showed her this article.
OMG..just saw this.. I have listened to him quite a few times....horrible.
Sad. Memory eternal.
Just another conservative being killed in a strange way (prior one was Swine Flu, LOL) - nothing to see here - time to move on.
I’m surprised that he didn’t feel the train’s rumbling through his feet.
My father demonstrated for me as a kid how long it takes for a train at speed to stop; it took more than a minute and a half, and we walked back the near mile to where he noted the ‘stop’ sign was. We weren’t rushing, it took us a good 15 minutes to get there.
It was a very strong life lesson, and walking back to the car, I had plenty to think about. Since then I always look both ways when crossing railroad tracks, even those with controlled gates. More than a few times, I’d look one way, see it clear, then look the other and see a train heading to the crossing.
Once, it saved my life as I was able to stop in time before the train barreled through the crossing, the gates never coming down (followed by a call to the county sheriff.)
Run along railroad tracks? Yep, I’d want to be 100% sure they were utterly inactive before I risked that. Ear buds are secondary - it was being on the tracks that killed him.
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