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- From: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Deaths on Railroad Property: common sense or am I an Idiot?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 20:38:31 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec23.162343.29221@stsci.edu> <Bzq4B6.JHA@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Reply-To: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
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-
- (Not contradicting anything previously said:)
-
- I think the sense that "these people must be dumb" to climb on
- the tracks and get killed derives from the fact that the behavior
- people engage in on rail_roads_ is not what they would probably
- do on any other road. That is, if they treated railroads like
- car roads (like freeways, given the speeds involved), they
- wouldn't be in the situations that got them killed.
- (This just to explain, not justify or excuse anything).
-
- I think a lot of people have seen trains moving slowly and so
- expect that all trains move slowly. I have the same problem
- on my bicycle a lot, where people assume that since some bikes
- move slowly, they all do.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Bruce Nordman
- B_Nordman@lbl.gov
-