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12-06-2007
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Cell Phone Syndrome?
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12-06-2007
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I'm with Darwin on this one...
As a kid you learn to appreciate certain things... when a human meets a moving train, there is only one possible outcome. Death by stupidity I'm afraid.
The unfortunate thing is that there will now probably be millions spent on an inquiry, and billions on the redesign and re-fitting of idiot-proof barriers that prevent pedestrians walking around them.
I feel sorry for his friends and family, but... Is it tragic? No, not by my definition of the word.
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12-06-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BishRat
I feel sorry for his friends and family, but... Is it tragic? No, not by my definition of the word.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy
no tragedy... tragedy requires that the victim be someone with whom the audience empathizes
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12-06-2007
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Sad. Trains vs.almost anything is a sure recipe for disaster. My question is "How do you not hear a train?"
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12-06-2007
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At least he was a pedestrian and not driving a SUV while talking on the phone, which could have meant that he took others with him.
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12-06-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Catenaccio
My question is "How do you not hear a train?"
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Unfortunately it's easy nowadays. Sadly, most people are so self-obsessed, and so completely engrossed in their own little world, that they are oblivious to what's going on around them... Y'know, things like a train bearing down on 'em!
The cell-phone phenomenon encourages people that they absolutely need to be in constant communication. They are slaves to the device. Nothing is more important than their personal conversation... sometimes with fatal results.
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'06 Black & check Thruxton - AI & airbox gone, TORs, instruments lowered, YSS piggybacks, prog fork springs, gaiters, kneepads, rear fender bobbed, lucas rear light, Napoleons, custom blue/chrome headers, and a little duct tape...
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12-06-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BishRat
The unfortunate thing is that there will now probably be millions spent on an inquiry, and billions on the redesign and re-fitting of idiot-proof barriers that prevent pedestrians walking around them.
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build an idiot-proof device and the world will build a better idiot
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12-06-2007
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I'm with BishRat on this one.
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12-06-2007
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Stupid is as Stupid does......... 
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12-06-2007
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Self absorbed, I wonder what the person at the other end of the phone thought, must have heard the noise.
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