I heard about this through the grapevine yesterday before it was published. There has to be a better way to go.
I wouldn’t be feeling very good if I was the mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, friend, etc. of one of the fatalities.
I wouldn’t be feeling very good if I was the mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, friend, etc. of one of the fatalities.
Well I’m not their mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, or friend, so to me people suffering the consequence for stupid behavior is hilarious. Maybe I’m just a sick guy, but I’m not the only one. There are TV shows made from people getting hurt and even killed from stupid behavior like this. Ever watch Tru TV.
I heard about this through the grapevine yesterday before it was published. There has to be a better way to go.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/...1214,0,1428895.story
OMG that’s terrible.
Nova
Ouch.
I imagine they were in the empty car,then it got filled from the top and buried them.
**people suffering the consequence for stupid behavior is hilarious. **
People getting killed is hilarious? Really? I think it is rather sick to get your jollies from watching people get injured or killed - regardless of whether it was because they did something dumb or not. If you do laugh after watching people get killed, you need some serious professional help.
Maybe you are right, I definitely need professional help. But until I do…
I imagine they were in the empty car,then it got filled from the top and buried them.
Dinges told the Ledger of Lakeland authorities believe the victims died when the boxcar was being emptied. However, she says an investigation is underway.
She says the boxcar opens from the bottom to empty the coal and the forceful movement likely caused the blunt force trauma that killed the woman and asphyxiated the man.
Death by coal quicksand is the likely cause.
~Matt
There are air actuated hatches on the bottom of the cars and falling through them into a holding container could easily kill someone. If they were sitting on top of any coal it would have been just like the quick sand you mentioned except much faster.
You have the most sick sense of humor.
What I still don’t understand is why didn’t they just get in a regular boxcar. It has been 12 years since I worked for Norfolk Southern Railroad, but isn’t all coal carried in hopper cars? What sense does it make to hitch on one of those, you get no protection from the elements and this can happen.
Spike TV show: http://www.spike.com/shows/1000-ways-to-die
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What I still don’t understand is why didn’t they just get in a regular boxcar. It has been 12 years since I worked for Norfolk Southern Railroad, but isn’t all coal carried in hopper cars? What sense does it make to hitch on one of those, you get no protection from the elements and this can happen.
I was wondering the same. Maybe they were ina hurry. Thats all I can figure
Which I might add is in its 4th season. Humans love this stuff because it taps in to our savage nature. The Romans loved watching Christians get slaughtered and men fight to the death in the arena. Executions were a public spectacle from the dark ages until the Wild West. Trust me, live death will be mainstream entertainment again. I predict a Running Man like show as Bread & Circuses for the masses we drift closer and closer to the collapse of the American Empire in the next decade or two.
There are air actuated hatches on the bottom of the cars and falling through them into a holding container could easily kill someone. If they were sitting on top of any coal it would have been just like the quick sand you mentioned except much faster.
Only coal plant I’ve been to had a sweet hydraulic lift system that grabbed the entire loaded car and flipped it upside down to empty it. Much cooler than this wussy “let gravity do the work” crap you are talking about.
Only coal plant I’ve been to had a sweet hydraulic lift system that grabbed the entire loaded car and flipped it upside down to empty it. Much cooler than this wussy “let gravity do the work” crap you are talking about.
I saw a couple of those that did that with entire Semi trucks, although not tipping them entirely over. The truck would pull in and a massive lift picked the whole thing up about 30-45 degrees emptying the contents out the back. Can’t remember what is for, I want to say for oranges.
~Matt
Yes that is the other way it works but it didnt sound like this was the case with these unlucky folks.
Either way they were in deep crap.
Did it scare you knowing those cars could come off the “trucks” so easily the next time you sat at a RR crossing??
**people suffering the consequence for stupid behavior is hilarious. **
People getting killed is hilarious? Really? I think it is rather sick to get your jollies from watching people get injured or killed - regardless of whether it was because they did something dumb or not. If you do laugh after watching people get killed, you need some serious professional help.
x2. you’re a sick bastard
-mike
We actually had a case involving these in a county where I worked as a coroner. Most of the trains in our area are coal trains.
Did it scare you knowing those cars could come off the “trucks” so easily the next time you sat at a RR crossing??
Aw hell no. I’ve listened to Richard Feynman talk about how it stays on the tracks: