[Family Guy]

My Mom’s uncle was decaptitated when he tried to jump on a moving train.

[DemforBush]

I had fears of something like that happening to me when I was thinking about hopping on the slow moving train (which didn’t seem nearly as slow when I got close to it). Looking back, my fear may well have saved my life that day.

[campaignPete R-CT]

My Mom’s uncle was decaptitated when he tried to jump on a moving train.

I'll pray that he makes a speedy recovery.

[Mr. K]

A guy who sat in front of me in my math class got ran over and was left with only one leg and one arm from a train accident (running from the guard)

[gnickgnack2]

Even the stationary ones are trouble. My nephew was recently playing on parked train cars with some college buddies and, as near as I can understand him yet, jumped from one car to another and fell thru the floorboards, landing chin first on the ground below. Half a day of surgery and a month of meals-by-straw later, he was able to squeeze a few solid crumbs between the new spaces in his teeth. I’ll find out more over Christmas dinner, maybe get a better telling of what he remembers of the event.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Your Mom's uncle was pretty unlucky. When I was a kid, I had a subscription to "Popular Science" and I still remember reading the article about a kid my age whose right arm was amputated in a train-hopping accident. He was the first person to have an amputated limb reattached. I found the article in the November 1962 PopSci on Google: "The Boy Who Lost His Arm -- and Got It Back. That article sure cured me of any thoughts I had of hopping a train.