Kayaker dies after being hit by train

News and Record ^ | 3/9/06 | AP

[Sloth]

Your theory sounds likely.

[Sloth]

My neighbor is a big boater and fisherman. He calls kayackers "Speedbumps"!

I guess train engineers can say the same now...

[csvset]

He may have been asleep. The sound of the oncoming train may have woken him. He tried to scramble to safety, tripped and fell.

[fish hawk]

Not in bad taste if no one knows what it is.

[DJ Taylor]

Can you just imagine this young man's predicament after he had made the decision to take the short cut through the tunnel? He may have gotten halfway (200') when he either heard or felt the train coming. But which way was it coming from? Was it coming from behind or from his front? Does he drop his ruck sack and run back, or does he run ahead? If he made the wrong decision and ran in the wrong direction, he may have been approaching the end of the tunnel when the train blocked out the light in front of him as it entered the tunnel. Can you imagine the horror this young man felt as he realized he would have to turn and run the full 400' in the opposite direction to outrun the train?

What a nightmare!

[rock58seg]

What caused it? Heyland's brau or Glaabsbrau? I know he couldn't get a brown bottle. Spent my time in Babenhausen.

[Herakles]

"How did the train get in the water?"

It was driven there??

[rock58seg]

The "gladhands" part of the air hoses connecting the air lines hang down pretty far also, but the cow catcher will have done you in long before that.

[Herakles]

If we could only get our government to camp in train tunnels, many of our problems would be solved!

[Fighting Irish]

....why is Aerosmith playing in my head right now?

< cue harmonica >"Daniel kept a running from the train, all night long" well, at least untill he made 200' inside the tunnel.

THAT'S IT!

[Lancey Howard]

Yeah, I think you need to be some kind of rocket surgeon to figure this one out.

[tucker93]

We need to limit the access to trains so that this doesn't happen again.

[dhs12345]

Maybe it was a flood that washed him into the tunnel while kayaking on the river? A possibility....

[Sax]

Ah, just like the old Timex ads - Take's a lickin' and keeps on tickin'!

[cubreporter]

yes, thought about that too and is probably the case.

[Steve_Seattle]

"As in comedy, in life timing is everything."

Actually, your comments seem to suggest the opposite, i.e., at least as far as our ultimate destiny is concerned, it's kind of predetermined, and that it doesn't matter if we are in the Indy 500 or playing scrabble, our death will come when it's due. A few years ago there was a car racer - Greg Moore - who, the day before a race - suffered a wrist injury, which could have kept him out of the race, no questions asked. He decided to race anyway, and was killed. I've often wondered about that wrist injury - was that his chance to avoid death, which he declined, or was it an affirmation of your philosophy of "when it's time, it's time."

[null and void]

I suppose it's what you do before that moment that counts.

[Steve_Seattle]

This sounds like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes story:

Watson: "Holmes, but only a fool would camp inside a railroad tunnel."

Holmes: "Precisely, Watson, and young DeLaVergne was no fool. And if he was merely seeking shelter from the rain, why would he be so far inside the tunnel? No, Watson, what we are dealing with is murder - cold, calculated murder. Pack your bag, Watson, we're going to America. And bring your revolver, we may need it."

[Vor Lady]

Great Post! I love Holmes and Watson!

[GAD]

I think I figured this one out.

He was on Ambien.

The train was never in the water.