[nocommies]

i dunno, but it seems to me weve had lots of derailed trains around lately. sounds suspicious to me

[JustPiper]

Me too, especially when you evacuate seven-hundred people.

[John H K]

i dunno, but it seems to me weve had lots of derailed trains around lately. sounds suspicious to me

People thought the same thing late last year but some intrepid FReepers found that the derailments hadn't increased at all, statistically.

Impressions are worthless...statistics are everything. For whatever reason, people became more inclined to post derailment stories on FR, people became more inclined to read them, leading to a snowball effect where as people noticed more derailments, they noticed more derailments.