Originally published at: Watch this woman barely—just barely—miss getting hit by a train | Boing Boing
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What a nitwit. I doubt this is an exception as she derps her way through life.
In addition to the other bad things that happen as listed in the PSA, these incidents give train operators PTSD.
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Ah, it’s time for the Darwin Awards tryouts, I see.
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Is that extremely dry humour or are they serious about the large numbers of missed appointments as a significant social harm? Certainly she was likely to miss many appointments.
Is missing an appointment an horrific faux pas in that country?
I guess when your country is the size of a large north american suburb you don’t have a lot of excuses for missing your doctor’s appointment.
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Geeze that was close. Years ago I was commuting in Los Angeles on a Metrolink train which generally cruises up to 55mph and we hit a person. I remember them telling us over the PA that we suddenly stopped because we hit a “trespasser”. I heard something go under the train as we stopped.
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HO-LEE SHIT. Why didn’t she just duck the arm, or go to the closest end of it? Yikes.
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Or wait 4 seconds for the train to pass. I understand why you might want to beat a slow freight (still not worth the risk) but the potential time saved is miniscule here.
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Fucking hell fire! That was soooo close 
What a numpty! It isn’t even like this was a massively long train that might have held her up for several minutes.
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I don’t want to minimise the tragedy of people killed in this way, or suggest that inconvenience to one’s schedule is any way comparable, but if your train (or a prior train using the same piece of track) hits someone, you are going to be seriously fucking late to wherever you’d hoped to go. Like hours late. As are hundreds of other people.
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There’s a UK rail safety PSA that touches on this:
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I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around why this person kept running back and forth on the tracks
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I was mainly talking about what happened after she realized she was in trouble.
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Egad! That was very close.
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No doubt, but I think the number of people in North America who think ‘I’d better not do this colossally stupid thing, it might slightly inconvenience hundreds of people’ is fairly low.
Given that ad copy is necessarily limited, the fact that they chose to make that their closing argument suggests such a thing would be a lot more socially powerful in Dutch culture than here in NA.
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Pass.
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Had to go pick up mail today, and watched from the bus as at least 5 folks jaywalked across the intersection by the San Ysidro trolley station, one of them walking right through the gates as the trolley was pulling in. People here have some cajones grandes.
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Obligs:
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