Posted on 05/17/2026 5:54:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
An Amtrak train hit a car in northeast Harris County, Texas, injuring an older driver and a boy around 10 or 12 years old (thought to be father and son).
The car edged just past the lowered crossbars and paid no heed to the train's horn. The train was traveling at 60 mph and struck them. It seems from the news report that the conductor later found the vehicle in some sort of body of water. Here's the local authorities on Facebook:
Somehow, the pair survived that.
However, according to ABC13,
The Amtrak train conductor tried to assist following the crash, but was confronted by at least four alligators in the water nearby.
Because, apparently, the sound of a train dragging a ton and a half of steel and fiberglass across the tracks sounds like a dinner bell to alligators.
Sheldon Fire Chief Sidney Webb said the alligators were four and a half to five feet long and were most likely attracted to the movement in the weeds before being scared off.
When rescuers arrived, they were able to pull the man and boy from the car, who were rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
No one on the train was injured in the crash.
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Gator Ping!................
Only good gator is one that got made into a pair of boots.
When Cabeza de Vaca crossed the southern region of North America between 1528 and 1536, his diary observations do not include a single alligator.
Indians ate them.
Hold muh beer and watch me play chicken with the train.
Cabeza de Vaca?..........😏
“The car edged just past the lowered crossbars and paid no heed to the train’s horn.”
Another case of attempted suicide by train.
A hiker gets bit on the butt by a rattlesnake. His partner runs to the doctor in the nearest town. The doctor tells him to suck the poison out of the bite or else the guy will die. The guy goes back to his wounded friend. The guy with the snake bite asks, “What did the doctor say?” The other guy pauses for a second, then answers, “I’m sorry, man. The doctor says you’re gonna die.”
Car driver gets Dad of the Year Award .... sheesh.
Hope the kid is okay/will be okay.
That would be better than my first thought, Dad in divorce wants to get at his ex by killing the kid.
An old Lone Ranger and Tonto joke from back in high school.
“Him say you die soon, Kemosabe!”
The child needs removed from the care of the father for lack of the ability to make a most basic decision to protect the child.
What about him?
The reason I posted that is that there is an overriding culture in this country that “Natural wildlands” would include lots of predators, and that therefore the ubiquity of alligators now must be a good thing to be tolerated. But that is NOT the way Indians shaped the continent over tens of millennia to which the entire vegetative system became used (to include regular fire). Predator mediated competition sucks as a wildlife system in terms of its productivity. They can have their uses, but only in limited instances.
If alligators would get rid of Burmese pythons in the Glades (for example), they’d almost be worth the trouble.
Here in Michigan there is a dad in jail and soon due to be released. He and wife were split up and he had their three young sons with him for a Thanksgiving weekend. He failed to return them to Mom after that weekend and they have never been seen since. He claims he “ gave” them to someone and they are safe but has told conflicting, and dubious stories about it to police. He was charged and convicted of the most possible w/o bodies, which was kidnapping, endangerment, etc and is almost due out after serving years for that. Prosecutors are trying to add additional murder-like charges to keep him behind bars. The children were declared legally dead after a number of years but the rest of the family would like to know where their bodies are and what he did with them. Their name was Skelton and are referred to as the Skelton brothers in the papers. Some wag posted that they are likely now the “Skeleton brothers” wherever they are. Tragedy plus time equals comedy, I guess.
What, too soon?!
“Because, apparently, the sound of a train dragging a ton and a half of steel and fiberglass across the tracks sounds like a dinner bell to alligators.” Of course it does, Go Gators!
Or fried up on a platter with ranch dressing on the side. 😉
Pronto.
This so called father was just sick in the head.
Unfortunately there are too many guys like him and women who don’t have the sense to stay away.
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