Then, on Wednesday, bicyclist Jeffrey D. King, 51, was struck and killed at the Ocean Avenue crossing, just five blocks south of where Lavell died. The Boynton Beach man also was apparently trying to beat the train, according to police.
"Beat the Train" - a new fun way to identify and remove the members of the population who are too stupid to live.
When I lived in a small town outside the Chicago area that had a set of train tracks, one friend was a local police officer who said that in 25 years on the force, he walked the tracks about 30 times pointing out body parts to the guys with the little bags used to clean up this kind of mess. When the village wrote a law that imposed a $500 fine for crossing the tracks improperly, he had no problem writing the tickets and never let anybody get away with a warning.
Couldn't really blame him. In future years, none of the new victims had been issued a ticket before they tried to beat a train and lost. Maybe the $500 had something to do with it.
“When I lived in a small town outside the Chicago area that had a set of train tracks, one friend was a local police officer who said that in 25 years on the force, he walked the tracks about 30 times pointing out body parts to the guys with the little bags used to clean up this kind of mess”
Saw one of those many years ago. Tongs and spatulas. I still saw missed parts a week or two later. Still in my head.