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Austin Christopher Price Identified as Teen Killed Playing "Chicken" With Train
SF Weekly ^ | Fri., Apr. 12 2013 | Erin Sherbert

Posted on 04/12/2013 9:08:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

An East Bay teen was hit and killed by a train last night after he was reportedly playing a game of "chicken" with two friends, police said. The boy -- who, according to press reports, has been identified as 15-year-old Austin Christopher Price -- was on the tracks off Lewelling Boulevard near San Lorenzo High School just before 7 p.m. on Thursday when the Amtrak train hit him.

The other boys were not injured. Police used this tragedy as an opportunity to remind youngsters that "kids should not be on the train tracks."

"They should not be used as a shortcut home. This is a very sad incident," Alameda County sheriff's spokeswoman April Luckett told NBC News.

The train was traveling from San Jose to Sacramento when the accident happened. Fortunately, no passengers or crew members on board were hurt. The train was stopped for nearly two hours while police investigated.


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1 posted on 04/12/2013 9:08:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.


2 posted on 04/12/2013 9:08:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Another contender for the Darwin Awards.


3 posted on 04/12/2013 9:09:37 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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Does this mean he won?


4 posted on 04/12/2013 9:10:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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Sure, like the train is going to chicken out and dodge away.


5 posted on 04/12/2013 9:11:40 PM PDT by bgill
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Depends on his end game.


6 posted on 04/12/2013 9:11:41 PM PDT by doc1019 (There is absolutely no difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion.)
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To: nickcarraway

Time to register trains. If it saves just one child’s life...


7 posted on 04/12/2013 9:13:48 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: nickcarraway

Reminds me of the “Boys on the tracks” an original Free Republic conspiracy topic and I believe related to the Clintons.


8 posted on 04/12/2013 9:15:26 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: BenLurkin
Does this mean he won?
It was a tie.
9 posted on 04/12/2013 9:17:59 PM PDT by Bratch
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It went to sudden death.


10 posted on 04/12/2013 9:18:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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It wasn’t an “accident” as the report states.


11 posted on 04/12/2013 9:19:40 PM PDT by EDINVA
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In the show Nashville this past Wednesday they were doing this with a pick up truck.

I have a feeling.


12 posted on 04/12/2013 9:23:44 PM PDT by cicero2k
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Fortunately, no passengers or crew members on board were hurt.

Damn, they really dodged a bullet there.


13 posted on 04/12/2013 9:55:56 PM PDT by Current Occupant (`)
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The notion of playing “chicken” against such unwinnable odds suggests that the teen was on drugs... you cannot win against a train.


14 posted on 04/12/2013 10:19:10 PM PDT by Republican1795.
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The train was traveling from San Jose to Sacramento when the accident happened. Fortunately, no passengers or crew members on board were hurt.

LMBO!!
Tell me this is satire.

15 posted on 04/12/2013 10:21:34 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Should I feel bad for wanting to belly laugh?

I guess I shouldn’t laugh, I mean, dude proved beyond any doubt that he is not a chicken, so that’s got to count for something.


16 posted on 04/12/2013 10:33:52 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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The notion of playing “chicken” against such unwinnable odds suggests that the teen was on drugs... you cannot win against a train.

I don't think he was playing chicken against the train. I think he was playing chicken against the other kids - first one to jump out of the way is the chicken.

17 posted on 04/12/2013 10:50:27 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (That's some bad hat, Harry.)
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Why stop the train for two hours? Let’s see, the train is doing it’s job and headed down the track as is it’s only course, a boy gets in the way of said train and gets hit.

So what’s to investigate about the train?


18 posted on 04/12/2013 11:52:50 PM PDT by Bullish (The little pantload can't even sink a basket for cryin' out loud!)
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Mena Arkansas. Dixie mafia.


19 posted on 04/12/2013 11:54:22 PM PDT by Bullish (The little pantload can't even sink a basket for cryin' out loud!)
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Fortunately, no passengers or crew members on board were hurt.

LMBO!! Tell me this is satire.

The train will be intact, of course. But if the train operator sees an obstacle on tracks and activates emergency braking then the deceleration can be strong enough to cause falls among passengers; luggage may fall and injure someone, glass items may fall and break into sharp blades, hot drinks spilled, power cords torn and shorted, etc. It doesn't take much to break a leg of an old woman, or to injure someone's eye. These things do happen, and the comment about health of passengers is warranted.

In this case the operator(s) probably haven't seen anyone on tracks until the last moment. After the collision they had to decide between an emergency stop (and injuring someone on the train, as they are well aware) and a regular braking. They likely elected to do a regular stop - which, of course, caused no injuries on the train.

20 posted on 04/12/2013 11:55:31 PM PDT by Greysard
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