Posted on 03/03/2017 1:51:12 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Honor student, 17, is struck by freight train and loses both feet after lying down with legs draped over the tracks
A 17-year-old Georgia high school senior has lost both his feet after being struck by a freight train in suburban Atlanta.
Lilburn Police Captain Thomas Bardugon say the victim, identified as Jacob Ohl, was lying alongside the train tracks near Shelly Lane with his feet draped over the rail when he was struck by a northbound CSX train at 1pm Thursday.
It took the locomotive between half a mile and three quarters of a mile to stop after the accident.
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What we hated was, to have the coin on the track fly off somewhere, and it was impossible to find. Bummer.
Well, we were teased by the older kids. They told us that a
single penny can derail an entire train. B/c they were *older* we sort of believed them. Then we had Catholic guilt about the prospect. Good times.
I don’t recall, any of us erstwhile kids [or teens] doing dumb stuff, like playing chicken, when the train went by.
Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps they should reconsider restrictions in such situations.
Suicidal?
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