Train runs over man as he poses for photo

WND/KIRO-TV ^ | 1-20-14

[thecodont]

Google Maps Street View shows the tracks with a wide grassy area between the ROW and the parallel street (C Street SW) and apparently no fence. I wonder if earbuds or some other sort of electronic distraction (besides trying to take a picture) were involved. The visibility in the area is very good in either direction.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

BTW - this question was for anyone...and not targeted at Doug (as he had something nice to say)

[Parley Baer]

I was out in the Mojave Desert at the Kelso train station. I was standing on the platform reading something and before I new it a freight train was right on top me. I never heard it coming.

[FrdmLvr]

What is it with all these pictures all the time? There are three pictures of me that exist that I can think of, and one of them is on my driver’s license.

[rlmorel]

Why men die young:

[moehoward]

Nice one!

[Carriage Hill]

Wonder if she was wearing a tarp?

[citizen]

Maybe she was concentrating on taking the picture and thus oblivious and he had the earbuds cranked up......

[VeniVidiVici]

Why didn’t the train swerve to miss him?

Zero tolerance.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The very first successful reattachment of a limb was an arm to a 12 year old boy who hopped a freight. The arm got lopped off at a tunnel abutment. I was 11 years old when I read that in in the November 1962 Popular Science issue and it ended all my thoughts of ever hopping a freight. Glad you survived.

The Boy Who Lost His Arm -- and Got It Back, page 71. It's amazing the odd things the mind dredges up when you're on FR.

[Jack Hydrazine]

At C St. SW and 8th Street SE there is no fence.

[Jack Hydrazine]

It was about 50F in Auburn, WA today with full sunshine.

[rockrr]

Really? Down by the Longhorn Restaurant isn’t it? I stand corrected.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Yeppers. Right there! Just look across the street at the tracks and you’ll see no fence. Just a stretch of grass about forty or so feet from street to the first set of tracks.

[a fool in paradise]

“Don’t move!”

[doug from upland]

I understand

[Arrowhead1952]

A north bound moose man was hit by a south bound train in a tunnel. DUH moment. Hold my MD 20/20 and watch this.

[Slings and Arrows]

The secret phrase for today is "situational awareness".

[GeronL]

trains aren’t exactly quiet

[Jet Jaguar]

Curious.

Were you ever in the Air Force?

Situational awareness is key to preventing most mishaps.

(I have to write that in reports at least weekly)