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- From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
- Subject: Re: Stupid People (Grade crossings)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.144356.9395@ee.ryerson.ca>
- Sender: news@ee.ryerson.ca
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- Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
- References: <1992Nov6.223536.9587@engage.pko.dec.com> <1992Nov7.181832.27959@steam.rome.ny.us> <1e475kINNc1q@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:43:56 GMT
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- pvmason@cco.caltech.edu (Peter V. Mason) writes:
- >
- >The Metro Blue Line (high-speed interurban, very fast, very quiet) was
- >put into service from Los Angeles to Long Beach a couple of years ago.
- >They had a plague of drivearound accidents at the start - one or two
- >a month. There haven't been any in the news lately. either people
- >are getting smarter (not likely) or the accidents are less newsworthy
- >(more likely). Pedestrians even *walked* around the gates and got
- >clobbered.
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- One other possible reason for the decline in these accidents:
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- Natural Selection.
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- The people most likely to be killed by such stupidity have been.
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- Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE | "...My brain IBM"
- Ryerson Polytechnical Institute | "So if you see me, acting stangely..."
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada | STYX, Mr. Roboto
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