Woman runs back and forth across train tracks and almost gets squashed

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I hope that is the explanation, and that she’ll never put herself in that situation again. I have a friend whose depressed mother decided to end her life in a similar manner, and it was obviously very traumatic for everyone. I’ve read that train engineers often suffer from PTSD after such encounters.

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Barely–just barely–missed the scoop!

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A baREly-Boing?

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Ah, the rare crossed-beams BoingBoing post!
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Needs the Yackety Sax sound track

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A good example how you can’t design for panic or basic stupidity. Those are half-barriers so you can always walk around if you find yourself between them and they are not locked and have a counterweight so almost everybody can just push them up.

Even a better trick, never get between them!

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Hey, I have an idea for a post:

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