Explain something to me

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There's a story in the local paper about a man who was riding his bicycle and was struck and killed by a train. Details are unimportant, but he was 56 and a construction worker from Georgia here for a project.

Explain to me: How is anyone who is not totally stoned, trying to commit suicide, or wearing noise cancelling headphones, ever hit by a train? I mean, I suppose there are a few places still around where the approach is blind enough that in the right circumstances someone might not see it coming. Still hard to imagine, really.

Buit if you are on foot or on a bike? I mean, how on Earth can you miss the fact that the thing is barreling down on you?
 
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lawgator1 said:
There's a story in the local paper about a man who was riding his bicycle and was struck and killed by a train. Details are unimportant, but he was 56 and a construction worker from Georgia here for a project.

Explain to me: How is anyone who is not totally stoned, trying to commit suicide, or wearing noise cancelling headphones, ever hit by a train? I mean, I suppose there are a few places still around where the approach is blind enough that in the right circumstances someone might not see it coming. Still hard to imagine, really.

Buit if you are on foot or on a bike? I mean, how on Earth can you miss the fact that the thing is barreling down on you?
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It happens quite a bit and the people are not impaired by drugs etc.

People are "in their own little word" without a care about things around them.
 
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I can honestly say I have been drunk enough that I truly do not recollect how I got home the night before. I suppose if that is possible, then it is possible to have no idea a train is barreling down on you.
 
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I have been to crash scenes were the driver was completely oblivious to the fact that a train was near them.
 
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I've been with classmates rock hunting near train tracks, the only clue we had that a train was less than half a mile from us was a high-pitched "grinding" noise being carried up the tracks themselves. We didn't actually hear the locomotive itself until it came around a bend (high rock walls on either side) about 200 yards from where we were.
 
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allvol123 said:
3 wrecks with trains, damn, that is hard core.
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I had a family member who was struck by lightning three times. Twice in exactly the same spot, lightning bounced off the tree and struck him while he was sitting on his bike, twice about four years between each the two occasions.
 
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KB5252 said:
I had a family member who was struck by lightning three times. Twice in exactly the same spot, lightning bounced off the tree and struck him while he was sitting on his bike, twice about four years between each the two occasions.
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I don't suppose he gained any special powers after all this?
 
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My neighbor's husband was a perfect example of how this stuff happens. He was riding his Harley one day and just was in his own world. Just riding down the road when BAM! Slammed into the rear of a truck that was stopped to make a left turn. I am sure all of us at one time or other have been in that "zone" where we are completely oblivious to the rest of the world and only hear the thoughts or whatever in our own head.
 
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Natural selection explains why some survive and prosper to become Gator fans, while the rest are thrown on the genetic trash heap and become UT fans.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Natural selection explains why some survive and prosper to become Gator fans, while the rest are thrown on the genetic trash heap and become UT fans.
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I think not.

gator-jorts.jpg
 
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lawgator1 said:
Natural selection explains why some survive and prosper to become Gator fans, while the rest are thrown on the genetic trash heap and become UT fans.
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Was Darwin thinking of jorts? Didn't know that, see you learn something when you come to VN.
 
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