Had a friend die this way.

I'm sure I will NOT be getting a kick out of the responses in this thread.

/RIP Brian
// :(

The problem with getting really drunk to commit suicide is that sometimes you fark it up.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

AverageAmericanGuy: The problem with getting really drunk to commit suicide is that sometimes you fark it up.
Trolling Darwin and the grim reaper is quite a feat.

Booze = bad...

These are the consequences of allowing people to freely intoxicate themselves. This guy could have caused others to die as well. But this is not my peeve. It is knowing that someone may crawl into your child's bedroom at night and pee on them in a drunken stupor. I, for one, do not like the idea of being urinated on, especially during my formative years, nor would I wish this foull saturation to occur to one of my precious, disciples...er...children. I do not like that the epitome of joy for some people is to marinate their liver at the expense of the honorable folks around them. And the idea that death is a bad thing is another unproven theory. I write x's on all drunk people ... I point at them and draw a big X... then I get in their face...I get up close and I say...Merry Christmas you drunk bastard!!

// got nothin'

SenorAmor: Had a friend die this way.

Was it accidental or suicide?

I knew someone (not well mind you) in my freshman year who passed out on the tracks and died after being hit by a train.

I guess I don't understand how railway tracks would ever be considered comfortable enough to sleep on. Even in a drunken stupor, the've never looked at all comfortable enough to even consider passing out on. Am I missing something here or is it fairly safe to assume that in nearly every case it should be considered a suicide attempt by default?

pkellmey: I guess I don't understand how railway tracks would ever be considered comfortable enough to sleep on. Even in a drunken stupor, the've never looked at all comfortable enough to even consider passing out on. Am I missing something here or is it fairly safe to assume that in nearly every case it should be considered a suicide attempt by default?

I'd guess that you trip over the (hard-to-see) rail, fall over, and then pass out. Because what's more fun than getting so drunk that you pass out on a railroad track?

How do you stay asleep when a train is flying right over your head?
/Train is a bit louder than my alarm clock

pkellmey: I guess I don't understand how railway tracks would ever be considered comfortable enough to sleep on. Even in a drunken stupor, the've never looked at all comfortable enough to even consider passing out on.

Isn't it called a railbed?

libranoelrose: What kind of charges would he be facing had it been in the US?

if he was white me, trespassing, public intoxication, vagrancy, resisting arrest, battery on a leo, improper disposal of toxic waste. any other race, nada

......wow......*hic*........this is the longest stairway ever!

Had train tracks 60 feet beyond my parents backyard. Though we were told many times to stay away, we hopped the trains often. One neighborhood Guy hopped on while drunk, and slipped on the rail car ladder and had his foot promptly cut off by the wheel. He never sobered up after that, and would drunkenly warn the younger kids around about train hopping, while showing off his stump. He later developed a heroin addiction and blew his head off in our neighborhood dairy mart. Good times...

Jake Havechek: ......wow......*hic*........this is the longest stairway ever!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...You got the funneh!!!

Good jrb,,,

Railroad cops are called "bulls" by the hobos and drunks they roust from train switchyards.

Unimpressed:

I'd lay my head on the railroad tracks
And wait for the Double E
But the railroad don't run no more
Poor, poor pitiful me

Most of your best ideas come to you when you're drunk, as illustrated here. If you want to have an excellent life, whatever you do, don't stop drinking.

Toot! Toot! Peanut butter!

/dnrtfa

Ooba Tooba
Had train tracks 60 feet beyond my parents backyard. Though we were told many times to stay away, we hopped the trains often. One neighborhood Guy hopped on while drunk, and slipped on the rail car ladder and had his foot promptly cut off by the wheel. He never sobered up after that, and would drunkenly warn the younger kids around about train hopping, while showing off his stump. He later developed a heroin addiction and blew his head off in our neighborhood dairy mart. Good times...

cool story bro

i lived next to the tracks also. i was 8 and it was in the afternoon when i heard my older sister yell 'he's not going to make it'. seconds after the freight train hit the car a few of us kids are racing toward the car being dragged down the track. i got there first and when i looked in the window blood was slowly coming out of his mouth. i looked at him for a few seconds and then he noticed me. he lifted his head for a split second and then slumped back i assume dead. cool times when you are 8
btw. if you are going to remark the train crew would have stopped us kids the car got hung up on a small bridge going over a stream and the train ran on for a bit.

Jake Havechek: ......wow......*hic*........this is the longest stairway ever!

And dem low handrail is givin me hell, I garontee you dat.

That's why you shouldn't drink alone. When the night has come and the land is dark, you need someone to stand by you and make sure you don't fall asleep on the tracks. Unless of course you have some perverse desire for half the town to see your dead body. And drunks like this are just leeches on society anyway. Probably better off at bottom of a river or dead in a field, man.

teylix: How do you stay asleep when a train is flying right over your head?
/Train is a bit louder than my alarm clock

By still being trashed out of his mind. What I want to know is how the train hit him in the head and he only had minor cuts on his head.

spentmiles: That's why you shouldn't drink alone. When the night has come and the land is dark, you need someone to stand by you and make sure you don't fall asleep on the tracks. Unless of course you have some perverse desire for half the town to see your dead body.

Depending on how you were positioned, just as likely that the whole town would see half your dead body.

Most train tracks conduct electromagnetic currents. Something in the steel resonates the same range of frequency we use in white noise players. Now that I know this I always make sure to RUN across the tracks in case I fall asleep. The momentum should continue my body across the danger threshold.

This news story obviously BS. It should be plain for everyone to see that this man killed then forced off a FEMA death train that was set up by godless Obama.

nekom: Actually they DO use a current to detect broken rails and for block signaling

AND CAB SINGALS

fruitloop: Toot! Toot! Peanut butter!

/dnrtfa

Tied with "Pinky! Get off the tracks!" for my first thought...

When I was a kid, my parents moved us from a state where hurricanes were the natural disaster to one where tornadoes were the ones to worry about. When asking one of the locals how to know when a tornado is coming (no sirens in our area), he said one of the signs was the sound of a freight train approaching. My dad looks over his shoulder at the tracks about 100 yards from the house and says, "We're farked then, aren't we?"

/Trains used to come by at least once every two hours
//Fortunately they were always trains, never twisters

I think that some people believe that snakes will not cross train tracks, and deliberately choose to sleep on tracks for that reason. I don't know if that's true or not, but I personally believe that trains are more dangerous than snakes. You never see a news article about someone getting bitten by a snake whilst passed out.

animalmagnet: I think that some people believe that snakes will not cross train tracks, and deliberately choose to sleep on tracks for that reason. I don't know if that's true or not, but I personally believe that trains are more dangerous than snakes. You never see a news article about someone getting bitten by a snake whilst passed out.


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