Woman Killed Attempting to Take a Selfie With a Speeding Steam Locomotive

Men's Journal ^ | 6/05/24 | Stacey Ritzen

[Libloather]

Filling in the 'topics' section on this one wasn't too difficult - art & science. There's video of the event. Her phone photos should hold plenty of evidence. Can't say she didn't see it comin'.

[SauronOfMordor]

Too stupid to live.

[Sirius Lee]

Died doing what she loved doing best - taking selfies and making duck lips.

[COBOL2Java]

If she were in the USA her family would be suing the railroad.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

inched preciously close to the tracks

Great writing there, Stacey.

[Hatteras]

... and the one lady rushes in to help with her cell phone... somehow

[redfreedom]

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.

[DannyTN]

Did she get the shot?

[mad_as_he$$]

Coming to a town near you:

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/

[dljordan]

“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.

[TalBlack]

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.

[shotgun]

To quote Terrible Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, “Pain train coming!”

[Mathews]

I saw the video. Pretty brutal.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

With these wide angle cammy phone lenses, they’ll need to protect the Selfie Dummies by etching in “OBJECTS ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR”.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Carbon reduced.

[ansel12]

They are all fat.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Don’t know. Got to do with where choo-choo go.

[Scrambler Bob]

I assume she was actually trying to take the selfie with her phone.

[Montana_Sam]

“They still use them in the Andes.”

And all over Africa and India.

[moovova]

I watched that on X (formerly known as Twitter).

It was brutal.