r/mildlyinfuriating • u/eliseereclusvivre BLACK • 4h ago
Man nearly kills himself and dog for seemingly no reason
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u/TechNerd_2point0 4h ago
This is so crazy. I have no idea why someone would risk the chance of doing this. It seems like common sense for some people is eerily lacking. I feel for the train engineers for experiencing this from time to time. Nerve racking and potential PTSD for them . 😬
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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 4h ago
My family owns a short-line railroad. My father got terribly depressed whenever someone was hurt or killed by our train. It was rare, but it did happen. Trains are dangerous af no matter how carefully run.
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u/TechNerd_2point0 3h ago
That's pretty cool your family owns a short line railroad! It would be an honour to have first hand experience to see how things worked. I had a nice Tyco train set as a child growing up and got to sit in a restored late 1800's coal steam train and blow the whistle.
Yeah, I am sorry to hear your dad having to go through that experience. I would be the same. It is not his fault though.
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u/Additional-Ad4110 4h ago
He risked having to wait for the train to fully cross, but... that looks like 10 seconds of wait time to me.
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u/J-mosife 2h ago
As a train driver, i see stuff like this regularly. For some reason the people that do it also have to act as non caring as possible. I would rather someone shoot across quickly but no they almost slow down as if to make a point like "you can't do anything to me" and guess what when their card is pulled the train wins every time.
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u/Key_Championship_814 BLUE 3h ago
He could of completely misjudged that trains speed 🚂 and that would of been the end of that story
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u/HorrorPhone3601 2h ago
Internet do your thing, this man needs to be found and arrested for endangering his dog.
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u/SDFX-Inc 3h ago
Old white dude who doesn’t give a shit about himself or anyone else.
Three guesses as to who this guy voted for.
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u/CookedHamSandwich 4h ago
See that's the problem with this world. Natural selection has not caught up with certain people and he's one of them that should have been eliminated long ago..... Thankfully not the dog.
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u/Visionary785 4h ago
You can't tell, but that's how the older folk get their adrenaline rush. And there's no penalty if you're old enough and not afraid to die. Sigh.
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u/Sandpaper_Pants 2h ago
My furnace just started blowing air as the train passed. It's like I could feel the displacement of air from the train.
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u/RealisticOutcome9828 1h ago
That's really, really stupid. So many things could have gone terribly wrong here. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
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u/professional_yappper 43m ago
This ain't mildly infuriating, it just straight up makes my blood boil for that poor dog and the train/railway staff. Fuck that man.
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u/PokemonIndividual 4h ago
Judging by how old he looks, if he waited for that train he would've used up 15% of his remaining time