Posted on 03/15/2017 12:36:27 PM PDT by simpson96
Edited on 03/15/2017 1:24:54 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
NAVASOTA, TX -- The mother of a 19-year-old woman says her daughter was killed when she was struck by a train while having photos taken of her on the tracks in a bid to launch a modeling career.
Hakamie Stevenson told The Eagle newspaper that her daughter, Fredzania Thompson, attended Blinn College in Bryan but wanted to put her education on hold to begin modeling.
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I have hired the occasional actor/model for video stuff.
Most of the time, I don’t use the audio since it’s for stock but I run an external mic some and I tend to keep at least one ear open.A habit from public TV land production.
HO scale
There's something very deceptive about trains - speed, spound, size- and by the time you realize you're in peril, you're done.
I have my Grandfather's log books- a lot of people died on those tracks.
If only there was some way to predict where those things are headed, so you can stay out of the way
Dumb and preventable. RIP.
I gotta say, a that’s a figure I find very attractive. More importantly, may G0d have mercy on her soul.
Blinn Jr. College is based in Brenham but also has a Bryan campus.
This happened last Friday, March 10th.
The train was hauling 101 grain cars from Oklahoma and is now on its way its final stop in Beaumont.
A spokesman for Union Pacific says train typically go an estimated 50 miles-per-hour in the area of
downtown Navasota.
http://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Pedestrian-struck-by-train-in-Navasota-415898003.html
Hakamie Stevenson told The Eagle newspaper that her daughter, Fredzania Thompson, attended Blinn College
There needs to be a new description of stupidity. Too stupid to get off the tracks when a train is coming.
There were two trains. Now it makes sense.
Ok. How can 2 people ON a track, out in the open, NOT hear the trains coming?
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The noise of the first train on one set of tracks is so loud they do not hear the second train coming on the other set of tracks.
Read a story of a college student taking a shortcut across 2 tracks going from her dorm to the parking lot where her car was. She was waiting for a train, moving right to left, on the far tracks, and never looked to her left to see a second train coming at her on the near tracks. The noise and vibration of the first train masked the noise and vibration of the second train; she could have easily seen it since it was on the near tracks, but she was so preoccupied looking at the first train on the far tracks she never looked to her left. Sad.
If this is real news, she’s an excellent candidate for the Darwin Award.
Yeah, those sneaky trains and the engineer not paying attention to all the activity on the track.
The loss of any life can be a tragedy. Still there are the Darwin Awards for people doing really dumb things to remove their DNA from the gene pool.
Many people are killed this way, so it might not be just raw ignorance.
Likely, the sound waves on the tracks are counter-intuitive. Young people should be taught not to assume they will hear the train rumbling from miles away.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/What_is_red_shift
Hakamie?????
Wonder if a shoe got caught in a track or something
Her career was just getting on track too...
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