near death
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Topic: near death
Posted By: 98God
Subject: near death
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:32pm
| on halloween me and my friends played airsoft during the day because we had nothing better to do..so as we were walking home we had to walk along the railroad tracks..it was the only way to go...so were going along and a train comes up and noone heres it...it is about 15 feet away and my friend looks back and yells train and we run...i have never run so fast in my life...if he never looked back all of us would surely have been killed...i feel lucky |
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Posted By: Jet87
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:33pm
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How do you not hear a train coming up from behind you at 15 feet away?
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:36pm
| thats what i said...noone heard it i would have thought the train would have been loud but it wasn't |
Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:45pm
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Deaf?
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:47pm
| he never sounded the horn or anything... |
Posted By: VTpaintballer
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:48pm
| every ten seconds he has to though?... |
Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:49pm
| i never heard it once...until we were off the tracks...i found it weird that he didn't i figured he should have |
Posted By: Glassjaw
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:53pm
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Odd.
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Posted By: MROD
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 2:55pm
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Posted By: Burnt Fingers
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:00pm
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If I had such a boring job, I would run some kids down for fun. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/worldchampion29/?chartstyle=sideGrey"> 
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:08pm
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Sounds like a bit of an exaggeration to me, for several reasons:
1) Trains are loud, even without the horn. 2) Trains usually sound their horns often. 3) If it was truly 15 feet away, that wouldn't have been enough time for your friend to say something, you to comprehend it, and then move. ------------- 
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:11pm
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Deaf?
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:14pm
| the train wasn't going fast but it was enough to kill us still |
Posted By: Glassjaw
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:15pm
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Besides wouldn't you feel the vibrations among the ground? Unless you were all stoned of your a!!'s ------------- |
Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:16pm
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we mustn't have been paying good attention...i didn't feel the vibrations nor did i hear it...no i don't smoke either |
Posted By: ThEeViLcHiCkEn
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:22pm
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B.s Meter just shot though the roof ------------- 
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:24pm
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i swear to god that this happened...i mean it might have been like
20ish feet but i didn't have time to get a good look...seriously why
would i waste my time and make up a story to a bunch of random people i
don't know...it would gain me nothing |
Posted By: DBibeau855
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:26pm
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i almost died going to school a couple weeks ago, my car blew a cam shaft and the engine exploded, i took the car off the road away from trees and stuff, i walked to the gas station to call my folks, when i came back the car was in flames ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/DBibeau855/?chartstyle=myspacecolors"> 
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Posted By: ThEeViLcHiCkEn
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:26pm
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maybe like 100ish and i MIGHT believe you? By the way i assume this is
at night and trains have BIG frickin lights on them. I think it just
was a vivid dream from all that candy.
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:27pm
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If the train was moving at 20 miles per hour, you would have had approximately .5 seconds to get out of the way before the train hit you.
I'm not saying it couldn't have been close, but 15 feet is basically nothing. If it was something like 60 feet, there might be some chance you'd get away (if the train was going at 20mph, that'd give you about 2 seconds). -------------
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:28pm
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no it was during the day not night...ok i might have been off on the
distance by a little but it was surprising and i remember it being close |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:30pm
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Either that train was moving at about 1mph, or you just suck at judging distances. -------------
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:33pm
| it was going about 15....ok yeah im going to get an exact measurement when im running out of the way of a train |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:37pm
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Well, we're not asking for an exact measurement...
We're just pointing out that 15 feet (or even "at the most 30 feet") is pretty much impossible. -------------
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Posted By: PlentifulBalls
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:54pm
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Why not just walk to the side and not run along the tracks?
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 3:56pm
| because we couldn't...there was a steep slope on both sides and you'd fall into thorns and stagnant water |
Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 4:31pm
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if there was some ambient noise and the train was slowing down (coasting) it can be hard to hear a train. Trains can be very quiet when coasting. ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: meteora
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 4:32pm
No they cant^
trains have other noises besides the horn.....like when trains move, the metal connecting with the tracks makes a hell lot of noise, i am convinced you and your friends have some sort of mental disability, or you are deaf....were you smoking mary jane? ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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98God wrote:Posted By: evil_fingers
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 4:41pm
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I dunno bout you guys but, this story reminds me of a movie.... ------------- Do not steal....the government hates competition! 
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Posted By: Civilian Of
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 4:57pm
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Posted By: xteam02001
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 5:10pm
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reminds me of this: http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=traindodge.wmv - this must have been you. haha ------------- 
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 5:20pm
| no i wasn't smoking mary jane...and i assure you my hearing is fine...we heard nothing |
Posted By: Civilian Of
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 5:27pm
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Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 7:29pm
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he is lucky he didn't get sucked right into the train by the wind the train would have made. (there is a word for that, i think bernuli(sp?) effect) ------------- Hey MPAA, Guess what? 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0! |
Posted By: DracoPlasm
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 8:05pm
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Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 8:10pm
| nah im not in denial...i know what im missing and i don't want it...i can't anway im in C.A.P |
Posted By: impulse
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 10:27pm
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Im betting they were smoking weed. ------------- 6,600 posts. I need a lifE |
Posted By: evil_fingers
Date Posted: 01 November 2004 at 10:39pm
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I wouldnt say that they were smokin weed, I would say they was drinkin up shine (moonshine). ------------- Do not steal....the government hates competition!
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Posted By: AdmiralSenn
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 12:33am
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1. Trains rumble
2. Trains vibrate the ground 3. Trains make all sorts of engine noise, air hose noise, etc. 4. Couldn't you have just.. run sideways? I'm a train person (I love just about all that is railroading), and this sounds like complete made-up hype.. that or they were on something. </repeat of all the other posts above me> ------------- Is God real? You'll find out when you die. 
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Posted By: ump107
Date Posted: 02 November 2004 at 3:57am
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Being involved in EMS and from experience I can say it is possible to not be aware of a train coming up on you. One call I went to a kid crashed his dirt bike into a tree and landed next to the track. When we got down to the kid who was very messed up we started working on him. It was a hot summer day with a breeze along the rail bed. There was no engines running or sirens near where we were because of the location. A little bit after working on the victim for a while the police officer assigned to the call walked up and yelled to us that a train was coming. The train was about 100 feet away and approaching from downwind. We never heard it or felt it coming. We were about 5 feet from the tracks. We were told later by the railroad the train was traveling 25 MPH on the section of track we were working next to. You could feel a kind of suction as the train went by and from either the suction generated by the train or the wind of it going by us at 25 MPH blew most of our soft supplies around. So it is possible to not realize a train is coming however I am pretty sure it is due to inattention. As far as 98gods’ original post goes if his distances and speeds were right he should be dead. ------------- Tippman 98 Custom 14" J&J Ceramic Barrel BT-16 Barrel kit BT-Folding stock JT USA Spectra ProShield "If you must runaway do so quietly; Screaming looks bad on the news.” (unknown) |