Darwin Strikes Again

[secret-steve-crumbles]

You're driving down the road. You accidentally get caught on some train tracks and your car malfunctions. You see a train coming in the distance.

Do you:

a) get out of your car and run like hell
b) get out of your car and run like hell
c) get out of your car and run like hell
d) call 911 and sit in your car waiting for help

Wow. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28278606)

[alaskalonewolf]

I believe it would be a, b, or c. Unless I had a truck.
Then I'd lock in the hubs, and rally across the trax.

[masherscf]

Do you think that she expected them to stop the train?


I hope the 911-operator informed her that stopping the train was against the law...of inertia!

[alaskalonewolf]

Hahahahahahaa..... I wonder what that call sounded like.

[tokenuser]

e) Blame Obama for having trains running.

I used to eat at a restaurant (Lakeview Cafe - awesome breakfasts) across from that intersection, and lived about 1/2 a mile away. That stretch there is not the best for trains. Remember a fairly massive Metro crash about 7 years ago in SoCal? That happened at the next intersection down the tracks. I saw so many people doing fucking stupid things at those intersections. Lights flashing? Time to cross. Boom gates down? No problem, we'll drive around them. Traffic backup across tracks waiting for lights on other side to change? No worries, join the rest of the cars across the tracks.

[secret-steve-crumbles]

e) Blame Obama for having trains running.I was actually going to add a blame bush option, but, this wasn't in the politics thread so I deleted it.

I used to eat at a restaurant (Lakeview Cafe - awesome breakfasts) across from that intersection, and lived about 1/2 a mile away. That stretch there is not the best for trains. Remember a fairly massive Metro crash about 7 years ago in SoCal? That happened at the next intersection down the tracks. I saw so many people doing fucking stupid things at those intersections. Lights flashing? Time to cross. Boom gates down? No problem, we'll drive around them. Traffic backup across tracks waiting for lights on other side to change? No worries, join the rest of the cars across the tracks.Yup, people are amazing. I was driving to work this morning and there is an intersection that backs WAY the hell up. The left turning lane is never used except by only a few people. So, people started driving WAY down the suicide lane to make their left turn. Probably almost a mile. Cops have started to hide out in the businesses across the road to catch people doing this. So, this morning someone goes wizzing past me and sure enough, out come the cop lights. The cop gets in the lane behind him and starts following him all the way down towards the light. NOT TWO SECONDS LATER, another car WHO SEES THE COP DOING THIS, does the same thing. About a minute later, another cop starts driving down there. I told my wife: "Watch this, in about two seconds that cop is going to radio to his buddy that the car behind him did the same thing." I couldn't even get the sentence out of my mouth before that cop turned on his lights too.

[esophagus]

There's a guy in my hometown that everyone just calls "Metal Guy." You never see him without his headphones on, walking/moshing to some 80's metal band. He always waves, but can never hear you. Sometimes he can't even see you with his hair halfway to his ass. He's a really nice guy, but always the butt of a joke.

Once, two years or so ago, he was walking home from the bar with his headphones on and didn't here a train coming. It hit him, threw him a solid twenty feet. There was a whole interview in the local paper with him a few days later where he talked about how the "Metal Gods" saved his life. It was awesome.

[secret-steve-crumbles]

There's a guy in my hometown that everyone just calls "Metal Guy." You never see him without his headphones on, walking/moshing to some 80's metal band. He always waves, but can never hear you. Sometimes he can't even see you with his hair halfway to his ass. He's a really nice guy, but always the butt of a joke.

Once, two years or so ago, he was walking home from the bar with his headphones on and didn't here a train coming. It hit him, threw him a solid twenty feet. There was a whole interview in the local paper with him a few days later where he talked about how the "Metal Gods" saved his life. It was awesome.Hahahaha!

[heyseuss]

Oh, so this thread isn't about Darwins retaliation in the battle of the Coral Sea ?

Put it in neutral, push it off the tracks ?

[therage800]

There's a guy in my hometown that everyone just calls "Metal Guy." You never see him without his headphones on, walking/moshing to some 80's metal band. He always waves, but can never hear you. Sometimes he can't even see you with his hair halfway to his ass. He's a really nice guy, but always the butt of a joke.



Does he drive a school bus?

[esophagus]

Does he drive a school bus?No, he is not Otto.

[therage800]

No, he is not Otto.

Oh good, I was wondering if anyone would get that...

[alaskalonewolf]

hahahahahahaaa, now that's funny.

[gta_bmx]

She was 68 years old, so she probably already had reproduced and passed her suspect genes onto her offspring. That takes the cake! Sitting there stuck on tracks, calling 911. Maybe it's a symbol of our disconnected society where people look to others (or technology) to help them, instead of self-reliance.