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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.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: darwinaward; dumbwaystodie; napl; rail
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To: kingattax
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.
To: doug from upland
BTW - this question was for anyone...and not targeted at Doug (as he had something nice to say)
To: kingattax
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.
To: kingattax
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.
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posted on
01/20/2014 7:28:52 PM PST
by
FrdmLvr
("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
To: Clay Moore
Why men die young:
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posted on
01/20/2014 7:33:19 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: TurboZamboni
To: kingattax
Wonder if she was wearing a tarp?
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posted on
01/20/2014 7:40:46 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: Pollster1
Maybe she was concentrating on taking the picture and thus oblivious and he had the earbuds cranked up......
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posted on
01/20/2014 7:40:49 PM PST
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: Blue Collar Christian
Why didn’t the train swerve to miss him?Zero tolerance.
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posted on
01/20/2014 7:52:00 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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.
To: rockrr
At C St. SW and 8th Street SE there is no fence.
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posted on
01/20/2014 8:33:03 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: DManA
It was about 50F in Auburn, WA today with full sunshine.
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posted on
01/20/2014 8:34:54 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Really? Down by the Longhorn Restaurant isn’t it? I stand corrected.
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posted on
01/20/2014 8:37:27 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: rockrr
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.
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posted on
01/20/2014 8:41:55 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: kingattax; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/20/2014 8:59:22 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: BookmanTheJanitor
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posted on
01/20/2014 9:06:38 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: kingattax
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.
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posted on
01/20/2014 9:15:43 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
To: Clay Moore; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
The secret phrase for today is "situational awareness".
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:46:17 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
trains aren’t exactly quiet
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posted on
01/20/2014 10:47:09 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Slings and Arrows
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)
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