ANOTHER person killed by train...
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MisterCMK;169717 wrote:
What a bunch of dumbshits. Natural selection at its finestI have a feeling the Concordia kid was drunk, it was right next to Mick's so they were probably plastered.
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SmitEvo;169725 wrote:
It sucks for both of them....I feel bad for the families.Same here
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ya to hear that ur kid was just killed would be shocking
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natural selection...no. how could you even say that? its one person who made a drunk mistake and a senior citizen? good call CMK once again establishing your lack of contribution here. these people DIED, there are alot of very hurt and upset people out there and none of which needs you calling their family members/loved ones dumbshits.
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I was at work when the kid from Concordia got hit, we listened to it over the radio while waiting to change crews in Dilworth. Today my brother calls me (he also works for BN) to see if I was on the train that hit the guy today. I have mixed feelings about the whole deal but my heart goes out to the families of the deceased and the train crews involved.
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sucks for both of the people....but trains can be quiet...so i can see how the person couldnt hear it.
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I knew Adam Bertek. good guy, havent spoken to him since for a good 6-7 years since basketball camp but damn, terrible how it happened.
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Turbo5Oh;169778 wrote:
it sucks for family and friends but jesus if u cant see, hear, or feel a train coming u shouldnt be walking near them. i know its easy to say now. but it just shows how one simple decision can end a life
Its kinda hard to hear or see a train comin the other way when one is just ending.Bertek was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Theyre still investigating if the train blew the whistles, but everyone knows theres another set of tracks within a block of that.
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STiSchucky;169810 wrote:
Its kinda hard to hear or see a train comin the other way when one is just ending.Bertek was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Theyre still investigating if the train blew the whistles, but everyone knows theres another set of tracks within a block of that.
I think that applies more to the guy that got hit today. He was elderly so maybe his hearing was off and his eyes sucked or whatever but you'd still be able feel it you'd think. The ground definitely shakes within a decent distance of a train. Either way it's a sad ordeal...
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I can vouch for trains being hard to hear. I parked on some tracks at a stop light in Grand Forks a couple years back and didn't see or hear the train until the gates started going down on top of my car. I even had the windows down and no music on. It surprised the shit out of me.
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when u see these dont hang out on the tracks
dont get me wrong i dont wanna offend anybody but its pretty simple everybodys parents tought them to look both ways before crossing the street. plain and simple it was a bad decision, i wish they didnt have to learn this way but this is the kind of things that can happen when u make a bad decision
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It's a little weird how often trains basically interrupt life in F/M. It's crazy that you've got a multi-minute long train rolling through downtown, cutting the main drag (broadway) in half like every 10 minutes. We live closer to 13th ave than main street but we hear the damn train whistles all night anyway.
You wouldn't think it would be too hard to route the tracks out of the middle of downtown. Especially since there's no freight consumers right downtown, and passenger rail is a joke in the US. In German cities its common for the above-ground long distance passenger rail lines to go underground once they hit the edge of downtown. The Hauptbanhof ("central rail station") in Munich extends several stories underground, in addition to a huge above ground rail yard. But pedestrians never have to cross tracks, and cars never have to stop for them either (except for Trams, and only at certain weird intersections).
It's just a different way of building cities. Fargo grew up around the railroad first, and then expanded according to the assumption that everyone had a car and would drive everywhere all the time.
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#1 Tracks were here first so technically the town should have to move, not the trains
#2 Next time a train stops in the middle of town, especially for 10+ minutes, I will make it my personal duty to execute the entire crew of that train (unless they stopped because they hit somebody)
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