Tragic turn of events....
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kittycraft
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Wow, this isn't surprising(College student or not), I have a old VHS railfanning video that shows 5-7 years olds, running along a Conrail autorack train jumping on it, I am not amused. But that one sentence that says at the end: "She has enough problems" Ya think?!
Sorry for the rage moment, but we must deal with the modern stupid American.
Sorry for the rage moment, but we must deal with the modern stupid American.
Retro00064
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There are plenty of nincompoops in America. Just watch America's Funniest Home Videos. 
Hi Everybody.
Just to get back on topic, who can honestly say that they did not do anything stupid when they were in their teens. If you did not do anything stupid at that age you never really have lived.
As a teenager in the early 1960s I had a BSA Goldstar motorbike capable of over 100 mph when there were no motorways anywhere in the United Kingdom or even duel carriageways. All my mates had motorbikes of similar capabilities and we rode them to their Max because that was what we lived for.
At one time we were told by a police officer that several of them had bets going down at the local station with the stakes being that one of us would be killed before that year was out.
The years go by and you you become more sensible and melow. what am I now, a workplace health and safety accident/incident investigator whose job it is to find out the cause of accidents together with those responsible and stop similar accidents/incidents happening again (lol)
How you change during the course of a life. Some forum members forget the fact of what they were like without doubt.
lets have a bit of compassion for the girl, and think, that could easily have been me at that age
Bill
Just to get back on topic, who can honestly say that they did not do anything stupid when they were in their teens. If you did not do anything stupid at that age you never really have lived.
As a teenager in the early 1960s I had a BSA Goldstar motorbike capable of over 100 mph when there were no motorways anywhere in the United Kingdom or even duel carriageways. All my mates had motorbikes of similar capabilities and we rode them to their Max because that was what we lived for.
At one time we were told by a police officer that several of them had bets going down at the local station with the stakes being that one of us would be killed before that year was out.
The years go by and you you become more sensible and melow. what am I now, a workplace health and safety accident/incident investigator whose job it is to find out the cause of accidents together with those responsible and stop similar accidents/incidents happening again (lol)
How you change during the course of a life. Some forum members forget the fact of what they were like without doubt.
lets have a bit of compassion for the girl, and think, that could easily have been me at that age
Bill
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Must have been a bumpy ride doing 100mph on the old cart tracks of Somerset in the 1960's. Plenty of motorways and dual carriageways up north in the 1960's and no 70mph speed limit!
You're right in saying we all did some crazy things in our youth.
Rob
As far as compassion is concerned, those born without legs merit compassion, those who lost their legs because of the stupidity of others merit compassion. For her, sorry but self inflicted doesn't cut it.
masterowner
The One and Only
I am a teen and would NEVER do something this stupid, the article not you since that wasn't clear earlier.
I don't feel sorry for her. This was self-inflicted. I was a teenager once myself, and doing this never crossed my mind, although I did do some stupid things like ride my bike down Route 28 to Boston. Route 28 is one of the most dangerous small 2-lane highways in the Boston area. There are numerous intersections, shopping centers, and really fast traffic. Just thinking back on this, gives me the shudders! If my parents knew, they would have killed me. If I knew what I did when I was that age, I would have killed me! Yikes! I agree as we get older we get wiser, well although sometimes if you watch America's Funniest Home Videos you might think otherwise.
I did try climbing on to a parked boxcar once. I really couldn't even do it with the car stopped on the old grassy rotted siding! In fact I can't even or could never even, climb up on a loading dock and that's a lot easier to get up on than a boxcar.
I've been through Loveland a couple of times now and saw the layout. The railroad should have a fence along the ROW so that no one can trespass. The former B&M RR cuts through UMASS Lowell South Campus, and there is a fence running along the length of the campus, and in particular along the edge of the cut where the tracks are. This is to prevent students from using the tracks as a short-cut back to their dorms, which are located down the street a bit from the campus itself.
John
I did try climbing on to a parked boxcar once. I really couldn't even do it with the car stopped on the old grassy rotted siding! In fact I can't even or could never even, climb up on a loading dock and that's a lot easier to get up on than a boxcar.
I've been through Loveland a couple of times now and saw the layout. The railroad should have a fence along the ROW so that no one can trespass. The former B&M RR cuts through UMASS Lowell South Campus, and there is a fence running along the length of the campus, and in particular along the edge of the cut where the tracks are. This is to prevent students from using the tracks as a short-cut back to their dorms, which are located down the street a bit from the campus itself.
John