Posted on 10/25/2011 12:44:16 PM PDT by Krankor
MONTREAL — A year after three teenagers were killed by a Via Rail train under the Turcot Interchange, families and friends are heading to Ottawa to ask the federal government for a change to Canada's Railway Safety Act.
Dylan Ford, Mitch Bracken, and Ricardo Conesa, were trespassing on the rail yards under the interchange when they were hit by Train 668 on Halloween night, 2010. Two friends survived because they were not on the tracks.
The boys were known for spray-painting graffiti, although their families say when the crash happened the boys were walking back to their cars.
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How about a law against spray painting grafitti, or a law against trespassing. Oh wait...
Two friends survived because they were not on the tracks.
Hmmm. Does there appear to be any relationship here between personal responsibility and individual actions? Me thinks the problem isn't sufficient regulations of the railway.
Did they park on the RR track?/sarc
The best way to prevent this problem is a two-step approach...
Step 1: Enforce vandalism laws, with heavy fines and penalties for perpetrators, regardless of age.
Step 2: Aggressively paint over or clean graffiti whereven and whenever it is found.
If you raise the cost of graffiti as you lower the reward (because any work completed will be removed within days), idjit kids will soon find another way to waste their time.
The word “trespassing” takes away any possible point the families may have or want to make to lessen their grief. Very similar to the usual words of families following a fatal shooting in the ghetto: “He was a good boy, just getting his life together, singing in the choir, yada yada”
Apparently, these kids were well known taggers with “tagger” nicknames and they’d been stopped a week earlier for tagging. The mother knew her kid was doing it, but thought he’d outgrow it. When you’re that stupid, the only thing a brighter headlight would accomplish is to let the engineer get a better look at the kids as the train ran them down.
There's not a law in the world that will stop teenagers from doing stupid stuff.
Looks like we have 3 more finalists for the Darwin award.
If only there were some way of keeping trains on a special road or path that is easily recognizable for what it is.
and maybe there could be fences, warning signs and such to let people know that 'wild, unpredictable trains are known to travel here'
“That’s what they get for bringing a spray-can to a train fight...”
On the tracks ~ that’s where this stuff always happens. It could easily be avoided by staying off the tracks.
Life is hard.. a lot harder and/or shorter if you are stupid.
Death to Taggers.
I hate graffiti.
Indeed!
Too bad stupidity isn’t painful.
Oh, wait... in this case...
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