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- Subject: Re: Stupid (DEAD) people
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.213504.2813@brandonu.ca>
- From: kent@brandonu.ca (Dorian Kent)
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:35:04 CST
- References: <168A18425.R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <168A18425.R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu>, R1004@vmcms.csuohio.edu writes:
- > The "trains should go slower" people will be screaming in Cleveland
- > Ohio again. The stadium where the Cleveland Browns play is right
- > downtown - a short didtance from the Conrail tracks. Many people
- > use the tracks as a shortcut to nearby parking lots. After
- > yesterday's game the usual crowd was tromping down the tracks when
- > a freight went through. Two people were hit, one, a 13 year old
- > boy with his father, died from his injuries.
- >
- > I expect any day now a news item saying the family is sueing
- > Conrail and/or the crew of the train.
- >
- > It's a good thing trains run on rails - keeps people from
- > claiming the locomotive swerved to hit them! (but I'm sure some
- > have anyway!)
- >
- >
-
- All I can say is that is isn't Conrail's fault. Besides what are people doing
- on private properity. If the people sue Conrail or the train crew, they won't
- win. Those people were not supposed to be on the rail lines in the first place.
- If the people used a little common sense this wouldn't have happened.
- Raillines were not made to walk on. They were made for trains to run on.
- That's all I have to say for now.
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- Dorian Kent kent@brandonu.ca
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- If at first you don't succeed...
- Well so much for skydiving!
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