Train and selfie.. what could go wrong?

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January 29, 2018, 10:22 AM

Sigmanic

Train and selfie.. what could go wrong?

Well at least he got his selfie, which is really what matters.

January 29, 2018, 10:23 AM

Pipe Smoker

Something similar damned near happened to me. I was in a Montreal underground station – very nice with a large & beautiful tile mosaic over the tunnel entrance. Standing at the edge of the platform, I leaned out to get a photo of the mosaic.

Those electric trains run on rubber tires on concrete rails – they’re VERY quiet! One was approaching rapidly from behind me, and I didn’t hear it. If a man hadn’t pulled me back I would’ve been hit.

I did get the photo though, and it also shows a guy looking at me in alarm.

January 29, 2018, 10:43 AM

YooperSigs

The railroad version of the Lackin Challenge.

January 29, 2018, 11:00 AM

jehzsa

Let us hope that the contusion reapportioned his cerebellum. And the right hemisphere. And the left hemisp...

January 29, 2018, 12:52 PM

zoom6zoom

Ya can't fool me... I saw that racist train swerve to hit him!

January 29, 2018, 01:25 PM

Rey HRH

Both of those videos were funny.

The first one was funnier on slow motion. I wish the shutter rate speed was faster though so that his face was more discernable as the train hit him.

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January 29, 2018, 01:39 PM

Rightwire

I've seen enough people killed by trains due to bad weather/low visibility or others bad decisions (hit from behind and forced into the train). This is a level of stupidity that I can't get my head wrapped around.

My only response in each of the cases noted here is they had it coming.

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January 29, 2018, 03:08 PM

Ricardokid11

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Originally posted by PossibleZombie:
More importantly, what phone was he using? It clearly took a beating and kept working.

I guess he won"t be attending the SOTU on Tuesday evening?

January 29, 2018, 10:19 PM

Deqlyn

He yet lives!

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January 29, 2018, 10:50 PM

Balzé Halzé

The angled nose of that train likely saved that idiot's life.

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January 29, 2018, 11:08 PM

XLT

she didn't make it and NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9n5njv0hg

January 30, 2018, 12:14 AM

P220 Smudge

Healthy fear and respect for trains, myself. My old man was a border patrolman working the train yards in El Paso for a while in the 70's. There was one time these fellas went running under a slow-moving train that was going about a mile or two an hour, thinking they were fast and spry so they would be fine and the migra wouldn't follow. One of them misjudged something in the course of the crossing, got caught, and that was that.

The train don't give a shit, it keeps on moving.

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January 30, 2018, 05:07 PM

BigCity

I so want to see the "after" photos.

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