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Topic: OT but unbelieveable!

Posted By: Claus
Subject: OT but unbelieveable!
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2010 at 8:40pm

This is really something to see. Idiots are everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szYZkctl_AQ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szYZkctl_AQ

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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2010 at 8:51pm

That sure is a 'weird' intersection,bet the locals love seeing 'passerbyers' drive it!

I'm always amazed at the 'car died on the tracks' videos.Really just what are the odds of that really happening?

Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2010 at 9:16pm

To be fair, that really is a screwy and scary intersection!

Speaking of idiots, when I was a teenager, we used to make a sport of racing the train to the intersection and crossing in front of him. The tracks ran parallel to the highway, we would chase him down, pass him, and cross in front of him, going around the crossing guards. There is no accounting for the stupidity of youth!

Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 8:53am

On the crossing close by here, the county grader has left the ice 6" above the tops of the rails and its not hard to get a car with small tires stuck if you don't drive fast (and that is a heck of a bump) fast.

Gerald J.

Posted By: redline
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 9:47am

It is amazing as many of us survive as we do. I did some stupid stuff, too. Now my stupid stuff is just cause my brain slips out of gear every now and then. I don't know if a tarp strap is going to hold it in gear like the tractors. We call the stupid stuff "accidents" nowadays.

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Posted By: morton(pa)
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 11:20am

Don't we have an OT section on here for a reason?

Posted By: FredW
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 11:31am

Yes, but whats the big deal. Fred

Posted By: Rogers
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 12:16pm

That's a dangerous looking crossing period. Here in town we have a street with the railroad running straight up the middle. Cars can't use the street when the train is coming. It is about a 1/4 mile long.

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Posted By: Roger Nolin
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 5:23pm

I operate a motor grader for the county. in the summer the RR tells to stay 10 ft away from the tracks on each side so we don't damage the rail. so people complain about the pot holes. In the winter the RR complains we don't take the snow off the crossing. SO JUST WHAT DOES THE RR WANT??< id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" ="">

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