Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Engineer decides he's not about to let #trainselfie become a "thing"

To quote the star of this video, Jared Michael, "I tried to take a selfie while a train passed a "safe" distance behind. I guess I was still too close and got kicked in the head. I messed up".
If a train engineer can reach out and boot you in the head, you're not a "safe" distance away from any train...

Remember kids:

Thanks to C.S. for the heads-up about this story.

12 comments:

  1. BickyApril 16, 2014 at 12:10 PM

    Um, I don't think it was me Bicky.

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  2. C.J. SmithApril 16, 2014 at 1:18 PM

    I'm getting to the bottom of it. It's hard to keep track of all y'all aliases.

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  3. BickyApril 16, 2014 at 1:35 PM

    Just adding a little more crazy to your train (of thought)!

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  4. C.J. SmithApril 16, 2014 at 1:48 PM

    Credit is fixed and I am losing my marbles. Seriously.

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  5. AnonymousApril 16, 2014 at 3:36 PM

    C.J. Dollarama sells small marbles for like $1/25, and the grand size ones (you know the ones we ALL wanted back in the 80's) for $2 for 10 or something like that. ;)
    BTW this looks a bit staged, and the leg seems a wee bit limp.

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  6. C.J. SmithApril 16, 2014 at 5:09 PM

    ^ At first it seems so but it's not and Allan and I had discussion that it's a very real incident despite the first impression.
    Word on reddit is the engineer actually saved this guy's life.
    http://www.reddit.com/user/TuckerMcG?sort=new

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  7. AnonymousApril 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM

    Woot Woot I got a shout out from CJ ... I've made it in the big leagues. LoL

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  8. FREDApril 16, 2014 at 5:30 PM

    May I present the remix?http://youtu.be/sMR0RCsrHBw

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  9. AnonymousApril 17, 2014 at 3:45 PM

    That boot to he face pic is now my avatar.

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  10. AnonymousApril 17, 2014 at 10:24 PM

    if you look in the 2nd photo (I saw this elsewhere) there is a chunk of metal that the conductor's leg is resting against. Apparently, it would have bashed into (and probably out of) the photo takers head if the conductor hadn't done what he did.)

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    1. C.J. SmithApril 18, 2014 at 5:10 AM

      Yep. The link I provided at 59 PM 4/16 has some further details and blow by blow screen captures of the piece of metal.

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  11. AnonymousApril 19, 2014 at 5:01 PM

    I wish Darwin would have taken care of this tresspasser already

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