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- Subject: Trains & Movies (a question of saftey?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.134610.781@ab.wvnet.edu>
- From: mccartney_g@ab.wvnet.edu
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:46:10 -0500
- Organization: Alderson-Broaddus College
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- Maybe the problem with people and especially children getting hurt around
- railroads is using ideas from what they see on TV. At least once we have all
- seen our favorite hero jump a motorcycle through a moving boxcar, or the
- bandits running from the cops and break through the gates just before the train
- gets there. I believe people get the idea from these shows that it maybe
- possible to try stunts such as these. Take a minute and think about all the
- movies you have ever seen with trains in them and the ones involved with cars
- and how many people walk away in the film unhurt. Maybe if they showed what
- really would happen people would think twice about the dangers around
- railroads.
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- Think about the movie Stand Bye Me. Those boys were able to make it off that
- tressel when the train was comming, but I would have to question that in real
- life.
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- Greg McCartney
- McCartney_G@ab.wvnet.edu
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