Posted on 06/02/2013 8:22:50 AM PDT by bryan999
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My vote for best post of the week!
If you have nothing you’re willing to die for, you have nothing worth living for....I bet I know how he voted (and will probably continue to vote).
Just thinin’ the herd...
241/WP is an elevated station. He was probably concerned about the vibrations of the train shaking the phone below to the ground. I’m more surprised about how he didn’t see the train - it can only come from one direction.
I’m pretty sure that if I decided to get my cell phone I dropped on the tracks, that I could do that successfully without getting run over by the train.
You know when the train is coming. You just don’t jump down 20 seconds before the train arrives.
of course, what you SHOULD do is get a metro worker to come over and grab it with the long picker-uppers they have for trash.
BTW, the guy was dead. How do they know he was just trying to get the phone? Did he yell “Damn, I’m about to be run over by a train, and all I was trying to do is get my cell phone?”
Putting 2 and 2 together, I realized the phone must have finally slid off the roof after gaining the freeway onramp and picking up speed. So I did a loop around the cloverleaf and my Bluetooth came on briefly as I got back on the ramp to the highway. So I knew it was somewhere on that onramp. I ended up looping around again and parking at the McDonald's down on the main road just before the interchange and walking up on the onramp as cars whizzed by me and a few people honked in anger.
Sure enough, my phone was there, propped up against the concrete barrier, a few minor scratches but otherwise fully functional. I did discover however that motorists do not anticipate pedestrians up on the onramps. This tends to surprise and in some cases, annoy them.
... a call from “God”?
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