Tourists are among 15 dead after out-of-control tram careers down steep hill and smashes into building in Portugal - injuring at least 18

DailyMail.co ^ | 14:09 EDT, 3 September 2025 | OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, ARYN KAUR PEDLER, NATALIA PENZA

[pingman]

“Funiculi! Funicula!” Scary stuff.

[The Sentient Sheep]

Tram maintenance, what’s that?

[1Old Pro]

Happened in Italy not too many years ago.

[jacknhoo]

Careen.

[BenLurkin]

causing it to lose control and career down a steep hill

Do they mean careen?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

No, “career” is the correct word here.

[con-surf-ative]

Uh . . . no.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Look it up.

[lee martell]

Who put those cables up?
Somebody who could read Portuguese?
Terrible for all involved.
Just seeing that happen would be traumatic.

[BenLurkin]

It’s kind of a blighted looking area.

[farm_kid]

Tramatic.

[jacknhoo]

“”No, “career” is the correct word here.“”

_________

You must be very very old, then.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Old enough to use a dictionary.

[jacknhoo]

Good, now look up archaic.

[BenLurkin]

It sounds rickety, and the alley is covered in graffitti....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/Lissabon_Elevador_da_Gloria.webm/Lissabon_Elevador_da_Gloria.webm.720p.vp9.webm

[HartleyMBaldwin]

You didn’t look up “career”, did you? If you had, you’d have seen that it was the correct word for the article writer to have used, and not an archaic usage either.

[Paladin2]

Who doesn’t love Public Transportation?

Your Gov’t loves you....

[hanamizu]

I believe ‘funicular’ is Britspeak for what we call a cable car.

[JPG]

Careen and Career

Some people might be confused by the warning to not confuse careen and career, because the most common sense of career (”a profession”) is not much like any of the meanings of careen. But when employed as a verb, career does have some semantic overlap with careen; both words may be used to mean “to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner.”