That's it?

slow news day?

If the police thinks your city is too stupid as to need 2 years to know that you shouldn't stay on the train tracks... I'd be offended to an ineffable extent.

The same thing started hapening in Houston. Dumb farkers can't look before turning left.

South Shore. I can vouch for that. Most of those people have never sat on chairs before or eaten with utensils.

Whistle or no, a train is not going to sneak up on anyone. I won't say you deserve what you get if your on the tracks when the train comes by, but I'm tempted to.

On a separate threadjack, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones just announced Hometown Throwdown 10, for this December. Boston farkers interested?

When will people stop assuming that being hit by trains is an "accident".

MAYBE if you're in a vehicle. But for the most part, it's a suicide attempt. That's why people walk on the tracks. To kill themselves.

Happens all the time in the Chicago suburbs. These aren't accidents, they're done on purpose.

After the first idiot gets him/herself killed on the tracks there, they will be tooting their horns that the train didn't blow its' whistle.

The delay was not due to training, it was due to idiot South Shore residents not wanting mass transit stopping in their towns, because they think riffraff from Dorchester will ride down to Scituate.

In that two years, they've had a nonstop campaign on train crossing safety.

unremarkable asterisk: Imagine the chaos if someone put a Lite-Brite at the train station. The locals would be in a wicked panic.

I lol'd

And I'm guessing this thread is going to turn into a collection of pics and videos of trains hitting, cars, people, and maybe livestock.

/please...

Next weeks meetings will include:

Mon: Don't jump off the roof of a house and land on your head

Tues: Don't drive head first into oncoming traffic

Wed: Don't grind up glass and eat it

/I hope this is the dumbest part of Boston.

I Said:

/I hope this is the dumbest part of Boston.

I can tell you there's no such thing
they are all dumb equally

The mean streets of Boston

Expect a train on any track, at any time, in either direction.

I'll take my consulting fee now please.

Yankees Su---*splat*

/a heartwarming scene

You can bet good money though that when the tracks are fully in use, at least one teenager per year will get smacked into orbit by a fast moving train due to walking down the tracks with their iPod on.

They won't be on this line, but the Amtraks(non Acela) passenger trains go so damn fast that by the time you see them they're already bearing down on you. They're super fast, you don't have time to react and get out of the way. There used to be an area by BU where kids would hang out, but too many drunk ones kept getting killed by trains.

Ahhh, Scituate. The Irish Riviera.

Nestea Plunge: South Shore. I can vouch for that. Most of those people have never sat on chairs before or eaten with utensils.

Uh oh...looks like someone couldn't afford that house in Hingham he wanted

This should surprise no one. Most suburbanites are so caught up in their own selfishness, they rarely take the time to look at the world around them.

Hanghim? Hell no. Or Shiatuate. Or Geymouth. I lived in Chintzy for about 5 months and hated it the entire time.

Scituate makes me think of Billy Tibbetts. He's like the real-life Ogie Oglethrope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tibbetts

...emphaize that both pedestrians and drivers use caution even though all of the grade crossings on the Greenbush line will have warning systems consisting of flashing red lights, bells and gates.

Because all of these things put in place were meant to be ignored.

RailProf: Expect a train on any track, at any time, in either direction.


I came here to say that.

Maybe after a couple of hits the train can be named the "NIMBY Eliminator"

Yeah, I like the train whistle. When you're going to pick someone up at the station and you hear it when you're still at home it really gets your ass in gear.

screw global warming: all of this circumvention of darwin's laws can't be good for us...

Anyonne want to put an over/under on the time to the first person getting hit by the train? I'm thinking by Thanksgiving for sure.

HOW CAN YOU PEOPLE JOKE ABOUT THIS!
WE'RE LIVING IN A POST 1-31 WORLD NOW!
EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOW!

/CAPS AND SLASHIES MAKE PEOPLE CARE ABOUT YOUR ARGUMENT
//Hitler used trains.

Nestea Plunge: Hanghim? Hell no. Or Shiatuate. Or Geymouth. I lived in Chintzy for about 5 months and hated it the entire time.

I grew up on the South Shore (in "Geymouth"). I lived in Quincy for a year. It did indeed suck. But Quincy is more like a North Shore town than a South Shore town...it's like saying that you hate Canada because you lived in Alaska for five months

Whoopty Whoo The Precious Bongo Boy: This should surprise no one. Most suburbanites are so caught up in their own selfishness, they rarely take the time to look at the world around them.

I think your over-analyzing this. It's stupidity, not a lack of appreciation for the world or inability to stop and smell the roses.

If those trains were bombs a lot more people could have been hurt

BTW - I was just in Boston a few weeks ago. It's full of farking geeks.

I'm all for good fashion and I love style, but men wearing sweaters *tied* around their waists or up over their shoulders like a god damn cape is simply absurd.

Men even wear sweaters in nightclubs. I get that it's chilly there, it's chilly here too. But that's why we invented denim and leather jackets.

I Said: I think your over-analyzing this. It's stupidity, not a lack of appreciation for the world or inability to stop and smell the roses.

Excellent point. Sometimes it may be hard to tell the difference.

my prediction - someone will get killed within a year so they'll start blowing horns 2x per crossing. Next year, another death or so and they'll up it to 4x per crossing.

5 years out the trains will be blowing 6 times before each crossing and they'll have a paid duty cop 24x7.

BigHarv: Anyonne want to put an over/under on the time to the first person getting hit by the train? I'm thinking by Thanksgiving for sure.

My bet is on the first week. I have no faith in the intelligence of bostonians.

I bet it take less than 2 months before there is a car/train collision because the trains are in a "quiet" zone. Who will be held liable for the upcoming crash/death? The MBTA?

unremarkable asterisk: ChicagoJohn: Men even wear sweaters in nightclubs. I get that it's chilly there, it's chilly here too. But that's why we invented denim and leather jackets.

'Cause that's how they roll in Chicago Naperville.

I put my time in downtown. I lived alone for 4 years in the loop before choosing to move to the burbs. But the kicker is that I'm not even from this area, I'm from Bloomington. "The sticks!" So if we're going to hate, we need to get our material straightend out.

good job Boston, we all knew you were retarded, but this is something special

ChicagoJohn -- By any chance, were you in Boston's South End?

Because that would explain a lot.

ZAZ: A few years ago a girl ignored the bell, flashing lights, gate, and train whistle and walked onto the tracks to get flattened by commuter rail train. The state Supreme Court ruled that the accident could be considered the train crew's fault because they blew the whistle a few seconds late.

The other problem there was that there were two trains going opposite directions (and one obscured the other). It wasn't just "well the gates are down and everything but there's no whistle so it's ok."

ElwoodCuse: The other problem there was that there were two trains going opposite directions (and one obscured the other). It wasn't just "well the gates are down and everything but there's no whistle so it's ok."

Yeah, there was more to that case. But still, if the gates are down you DO NOT CROSS. I mean this isn't a very hard concept.

Stupid people exist.