Woman Jogging, Listening to iPod Had Legs Severed When Struck By Train

Foxnews.Com ^ | July 6, 2007 | AP

[RDTF]

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.

[Teacher317]

I can’t deceide whether to boo or applaud. LOL

[Northern Yankee]

If I were running on a train track, and was wearing an IPod, I would be constantly looking over my shoulder.

Couldn't she also feel the vibration?!

[CholeraJoe]

Never jog on a railroad trestle and never sit down on a Plexiglas toilet.

[Charles Henrickson]

STUCK ON IPOD, STUCK ON STUPID

[sarasota]

Imagine she’s been contacted by lawyers by now.

[NonValueAdded]

There’s GOT to be a way she can sue the train company....

Failure to yield right of way; failure to swerve to avoid the collision; horn too quiet; faulty track design (dampening rumble); failure to post train schedule along the route; excessive speed (a 1 mph train could have stopped in time) ... might sound far-fetched, but somewhere in a lawyers office, these ideas are flying around the conference table.

[Tax-chick]

That was just a guess; she might just have been crossing the track.

However, either way it was extremely foolish. (My son, the walking thesaurus, mentioned, “Stupid, dumb, idiotic,” as he read over my shoulder :-). All the running magazines and safety guidelines say over and over that people shouldn’t run wearing headphones, unless they’re on a treadmill.

[RabidBartender]

Unnnnggghhhh!

[Red in Blue PA]

So perhaps she made a bad decision. It is one she must live with for the rest of her life. To see people here piling on with jokes is disgusting.

[trumandogz]

Here is a list of train songs. I wonder which one she was listening?

http://www.thespoon.com/trainhop/songs.html

My money is on Train in Vain by the Clash

[martin_fierro]

	iPod
Send FReepmail if you want on/off iPing list WARNING: This is a high-volume Ping list. Turn your headphones down
The List of Ping Lists

[bmwcyle]

She must have been running from a SUV.

[gathersnomoss]

Back at you with Hendrix at Berkley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnju6P87IE

[gathersnomoss]

Train songs. Nice.

[randog]

I wonder if she was running on the train track. I see idiots doing that around here sometimes.

I'm wondering why she didn't instinctively look both ways before crossing the track, so your suggestion might be correct.

[4yearlurker]

Lots of trains around these little towns in my neck of the woods. She had to have that Ipod up loud to not hear the train.

[tubebender]

My wife and daughter jog between 5 and 6 am and are always on a high sense of alert. They can even smell a smoker or wino from a 100 feet or more away and any noise is noted. My wife also has her dog at her side. There is a doctors wife out at the same time wearing headphones oblivious to any sound. My wife has spoken to her several times about the hazard but she continues...

[L98Fiero]

“A tragic result of being an iPod zombie.”

Yep. Back in the 80’s, as a teenager, I almost got creamed in a parking lot while wearing my Walkman. My boss saw the whole thing and asked me if liked being functionally deaf in public. I did not.

[BigCinBigD]

I hear that train a comin. It’s rolling round the bend...

Johnny Cash

[CJ Wolf]

Another Jogging is bad for you story.