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Train runs over man as he poses for photo
WND/KIRO-TV ^ | 1-20-14

Posted on 01/20/2014 5:52:19 PM PST by kingattax

AUBURN, Wash. — A 42-year-old man died Saturday after he was hit by an Amtrak train in Auburn, fire officials said.

The incident occurred at about 3:30 p.m. near C Street Southwest and Eighth Street.

According to the Auburn Fire Department, the man’s girlfriend was taking pictures of him sitting on the rails when an Amtrak Cascades Train struck the man, who was from Las Vegas.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: darwinaward; dumbwaystodie; napl; rail
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1 posted on 01/20/2014 5:52:19 PM PST by kingattax
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To: kingattax

Hell of an action pic though.


2 posted on 01/20/2014 5:53:24 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kingattax

Hey Jr. Hold muh beer and watch this.


3 posted on 01/20/2014 5:53:30 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: kingattax

Amtrak will add him to double their ridership total.


4 posted on 01/20/2014 5:55:01 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: kingattax

Gotta be more to it than what meets the eye. I’d love to see the pictures she was taking...


5 posted on 01/20/2014 5:55:03 PM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: kingattax

Pretty hard to believe.


6 posted on 01/20/2014 5:55:12 PM PST by RC one
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To: kingattax

Trains - especially Amtrak - travel very quietly and very fast nowadays. You never hear them until they are right up on you.

When I was a kid I used to walk the train tracks. You could hear trains coming a mile away.

Not anymore.


7 posted on 01/20/2014 5:56:01 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: kingattax
the fool will be pissed if she dint get the picture...
8 posted on 01/20/2014 5:56:03 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: RC one

Click through to the article at kirotv.com. Pretty flat and open country, hard to miss that big train coming.

Must be more to the story.


9 posted on 01/20/2014 5:57:55 PM PST by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: kingattax

Would have made a nice selfie.


10 posted on 01/20/2014 5:58:08 PM PST by Autonomous User (Pain Fades. Chicks Dig Scars. Glory, lasts forever.)
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To: RC one

I’ll say.


11 posted on 01/20/2014 5:59:56 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: RC one

Was this the first “Pot” death in the Pink State of Washington?


12 posted on 01/20/2014 6:01:20 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: 2banana

My pal and I were snowshoeing on winter day. We came to a short railroad bridge. Started crossing. Half way across - HHHHOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRNNNNNNN!

We looked back here was an ore train. Where in the world did that come from. You wouldn’t think a giant train could sneak up on you but I’m here to tell you they can. (and kinda lucky to be here to tell ya.)


13 posted on 01/20/2014 6:05:28 PM PST by DManA
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To: kingattax

A fool and his head are soon parted.


14 posted on 01/20/2014 6:05:56 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hold my beer and watch this! ping


15 posted on 01/20/2014 6:06:13 PM PST by Clay Moore ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: Autonomous User

I knew someone would get me laughing.


16 posted on 01/20/2014 6:07:02 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: kingattax

He had eyes only for her—so he didn’t hear the train a’coming.


17 posted on 01/20/2014 6:11:39 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DManA

I remember walking along some train tracks as a teen, heading out to a sledding hill (actually the earthen slope from an overpass). Anyway, about half way there, I looked over my shoulder to see a big honking freight train bearing down on the three of us. Didn’t hear it coming, and I didn’t see a even hint of it a few minutes before when I had looked back to check.

We were lucky enough to be on open rail, so we just scrambled off onto one side. But man, it was a good couple of minutes before any of us felt like getting back on the tracks.


18 posted on 01/20/2014 6:12:16 PM PST by DemforBush (Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!)
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19 posted on 01/20/2014 6:12:40 PM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: kingattax

Obviously, he didn’t see the train coming. I wonder if she did.


20 posted on 01/20/2014 6:13:03 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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