Posted on 06/07/2024 3:54:56 AM PDT by Libloather
A 29-year-old woman in Hidalgo, Mexico is dead after attempting to take a selfie with a train bound for Mexico City, but got too close to the tracks.
The woman, who has not been identified, was part of a crowd to witness the final leg of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) 1930 Empress 2816 steam locomotive's journey, which departed from Calgary in Alberta, Canada on April 24. Last year, the cross-continental Final Spike Steam Tour became the first ever steam-powered passenger train in North America to traverse across Canada, the United States, and Mexico in a single trip.
In footage of the tragic incident obtained by TMZ, spectators can be seen excitedly chattering, holding up phones, and cheering as the speeding locomotive neared the crowd. However, at the last moment, the victim, who could be seen wearing an orange top, inched preciously close to the tracks with the train at her back as she held her phone in front of her. In an instant, she was knocked off her feet and tossed to the side of the tracks.
She was reportedly pronounced dead a short time later by first responders who arrived at the scene. The woman's family was said to have been with her in Hidalgo at the time of the incident.
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Too stupid to live.
Died doing what she loved doing best - taking selfies and making duck lips.
If she were in the USA her family would be suing the railroad.
Great writing there, Stacey.
... and the one lady rushes in to help with her cell phone... somehow
A steam powered locomotive. I thought they were all junked out or put in museums in the 1950s.
This woman reminds me of stories where idiots took selfies near a cliff.
Did she get the shot?
“A steam powered locomotive. I thought they were all junked out or put in museums in the 1950s.”
They still use them in the Andes.
If I recall it happened. Late seventies, van full of partying teens, driver decides to try to beat a train to the intersection. The driver miscalculated and that van split open and spewed bodies for a hundred yards or so, and the left, starting with Newsday spent months trying to make it the Long Island Rail Road fault. It was the point that I consciously realized that there was something wrong with certain people in the political spectrum.
To quote Terrible Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, “Pain train coming!”
I saw the video. Pretty brutal.
With these wide angle cammy phone lenses, they’ll need to protect the Selfie Dummies by etching in “OBJECTS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR”.
Carbon reduced.
They are all fat.
Don’t know. Got to do with where choo-choo go.
I assume she was actually trying to take the selfie with her phone.
“They still use them in the Andes.”
And all over Africa and India.
I watched that on X (formerly known as Twitter).
It was brutal.
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