More Darwin Award Candidates?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36996714

[jourdain2]

One despairs!

[ummmm]

There's always been stupid people or people who simply don't think of the consequences.

[baza]

Several tons of metal travelling at speed, human body made up of bone and blood, the two do not mix well in a collision.

[douglas9401]

It keeps counsellors in a job and florists like it too.

[fiction-factory]

One here ended in death. I'm not sure what picture the phone captured
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35457282

[wolf63]

My dad was a train driver (1949 - 1990) and a few of the drivers that he knew had experienced hitting cars or hitting people. Some of them were unable to work again after the incident.

If kids want to take silly risks then there is not a lot that can be done. But ruining the live of another person is not acceptable.

[mushroom25]

near misses of many types are a depressing reality for the railway operator. in the past week there have been instances of level crossing barriers being knocked off by vehicles ignoring the lights, of a pedestrian who tried to beat the barriers and got hit on the head in the process, of a person who sat waiting for their train with legs dangling off the platform (life changing injury was the result). for many the railway is an inconvenience to be circumvented at any cost - and all too often that cost is paid.

it's a pity that Network Rail is too squeamish to show the filmed evidence of what can actually happen - and there's plenty of that in existence.

[baza]

I did see several pictures of injuries / stiffs etc on a B.R. training course at Favordale Hall many years ago, it put us all off eating.
A near neighbour has had two go under and one near miss, he is no longer allowed to drive trains on the main line.

[wolf63]

Baza, were you a driver?

I heard of a group of lads playing in a private pool. Music device was plugged into the mains and left to float on a lilo type thing. Nasty

[Jackdaw33]

Why Darwin?

[ummmm]

Natural selection.

[baza]

wolf63, siarted as a railman ,finished as a duty manager and left after the bus companies took over.
FH. was the B.R. training school in Darlington.

[ToraToraTora]

JD, the darwin awards celebrate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it; http://www.darwinawards.com/

[mushroom25]

Faverdale Hall. mmmm. freezing cold bedrooms, and a rather unusual (for the time) payment method at the bar......

[baza]

^^^ the bar was in the stable block if my memory is correct.