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A young girl was struck and killed while walking across the light rail tracks in my town. Sadly, she was wearing headphones and probably didn't hear it coming. It is tragic. Not sure why she didn't pay attention and look before she crossed though.
So family and friends held an unofficial gathering at the light rail tracks in the evening to remember her. It was reported they were all standing on the tracks. .... Did they want to join her??? WTH??? What is wrong with people??
I've seen people cross streets this way. Headphones on and they don't bother to look out for traffic. I imagine they think of themselves as some kind of superhero "more powerful than a locomotive". No pun intended.
I live by railroad tracks, and if I had a nickel for every time I saw someone stop their car on the railroad tracks... Traffic gets backed up near the lights and people just don't leave the space to not be resting on the tracks while the light is red. I've seen people have the gates start to come down on them and then they have to quick pull up on the sidewalk to get out of the way of the train. Humanity's never short on stupidity.
It's so easy to judge this girl and every other "dummy" out there. Now think back to a few of the not so bright things we all have done during the course of life, especially when an invincible teen or college kid. Ya never took any chances when you were a kid or acted without thinking things through well?
Don't even get me started on the stupid, klutzy stuff I do. However, being unsafe around train tracks was never one of them, and I had train tracks running along my grandparents' backyard. There's just no excuse for it. There's stupid, and there's too stupid to live.
I find it impossible to have sympathy for people who die out of negative life choices: those who get so drunk they drown in rivers (one of our state colleges is famous for this), people who get themselves addicted to heroin and don't go into one of the many detox clinics set up for the low income folks, people who drive so recklessly they plow into trees (again, probably drunk), people who strap rockets to their car to make it go faster and then die in a fireball, that guy on the internet who purposely plowed his rascal scooter through closed elevator doors and fell down an elevator shaft (though I don't know if he died- should have), etc. etc. etc. The Darwin Awards was set up for cynical "jerks" like myself who just laugh and laugh at this stuff. If you want a hoot, find the movie of the same name.
Last edited by Astralwolf37; 11-15-2014 at 08:34 PM..
So many have convinced themselves that gadgetry is a suitable substitute for living.
I'm just a few blocks from a large college campus. The number of students walking around w/o their noses buried in their cell phones or their ears plugged with buds is just a small fraction.
A tiny bit of zen needs to be injected into Americans' awareness. Things like:
the first snow has fallen in the city that I reside in, and already the window lickers cant' be bothered trudging through the light coating of snow on the sidewalk and feel they need to walk on the road.
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