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This could have been a lot worse. (i.minus.com)

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[–]ScanExam 51 points52 points ago

He used squirrel logic. Oh the train is almost here let me try to cross by the longest and dangerous route

[–]Lampmonster1 1 point2 points ago

My first thought was "They panic and bolt like fucking deer." Try to rise above your animal instincts people! Use your brain.

[–]B1Gpimpin 1 point2 points ago

I'm guessing his logic was: "If I don't cross now I'lll be here 20min waiting for the train to pass." Still dumb though.

[–]IAMBollock 0 points1 point ago

20min

How long are your trains!?

[–]B1Gpimpin 0 points1 point ago

well where I live there are trains running through town all the time. Sometimes they slow to a crawl and ya it can take 20min

[–]shahadien 19 points20 points ago

This gif makes me feel nervous...

[–]TMNT16 12 points13 points ago

imagine what was going through his friend's head while the train was passing them.

[–]nodefect 15 points16 points ago

Well, it nearly was the train's wheels going through his head.

[–]mikeypikey 8 points9 points ago

http://i56.tinypic.com/oawspk.gif

[–]Gray89 8 points9 points ago

Oh thank god, after I clicked it I was expecting to see a train hitting something

[–]Brabinto 11 points12 points ago

Luckily it's the worlds slowest train.

[–]Solkre 9 points10 points ago

I live in northern Indiana, I disagree, this is a bullet train!

[–]palordrolap 7 points8 points ago

In my limited one-time experience, the empathy panic and dread that we feel as observers - or when it happens to us in a vague nightmare where we can't move - doesn't actually happen in reality when this sort of thing occurs.

Instead, adrenaline, fight or flight and clear instinctive thinking usually kick in - in my case it did - and you get yourself out of danger as fast as possible.

As to my tale: I used to have a nightmare as a child about falling down a sloping path which lead to a road near where we lived, and it would recur about once a year even after I moved away from home.

One icy winter Sunday when going to visit my folks, I slipped down that very slope into the middle of the road as a car was coming. Didn't panic, got up and got to the side of the road in no apparent hurry, but still in plenty of time to be out of the way of the car.

Haven't had the dream since. If you believe that sort of thing, maybe it saved my life, but it's more likely that the reality just feels different to a nightmare or to our empathy for someone in the same situation.

TL;DR Panic is not an option when this happens. Instinct kicks in and you save yourself.

[–]unpossible 6 points7 points ago

Your brain had worked through that exact scenario so many times, it was just like "whoop, whoopty do" and back to your regular business.

[–]nsadvgopanr 5 points6 points ago

Yeah, a good percentage of people will freeze up or panic or just be generally useless in emergency situations. I've seen it happen. There's good science behind fire drills and aircraft safety videos asking you to visualise the route to the exit. Visualising helps your brain work through the scenario. Physically working through the scenario is even better.

[–]Frost_ 0 points1 point ago

I think the traditionally quoted numbers are 10-80-10, i.e. in an unforeseen acute stress situation roughly 10% of people will panic or freeze completely, 80% are capable of action if given direction and 10% are active leaders. And as you said, situational awareness and preparedness help significantly. It annoys me to no end how many people seem to think that things like knowing the nearest exit from a venue or actively finding out how various safety equipment work even when it's not mandatory are just baseless paranoia and pessimism.

[–]nsadvgopanr 0 points1 point ago

I'd be interested to see stats on which of those % tend to survive more.

[–]Cruxius 0 points1 point ago

A car cut me off on my motorbike at an intersection and I crashed into the side of it. As I hit the ground I saw that the fuel cap had popped off and according to a witness it was like I bounced back up onto my feet as I immediately tried to haul the bike upright. It wasn't until the bike was halfway up I realised I'd badly sprained my wrist.

Sometimes you just react by instinct, because the fuel cap coming off is definitely not the sort of thing you mentally prepare for.

[–]on_the_redpill 11 points12 points ago

Fucking people... So much stupid shit happens on train tracks.

[–]PHALLUS_OF_MALICE 1 point2 points ago

Well, what do you expect? You can't really say that stupid shit happens in ball pits because they're relatively safe. Something unsafe with easy access is going to have its fair share of stupid shit, just like anything else. People, in their nature, do stupid shit. I'm sure you've done stupid shit just as I have, and anyone else on this site. That's just my two cents.

[–]CheeseyFail 4 points5 points ago

Ooooooolong Johnson! Ooooooooooolong johnson! Ooooooooooooolong splat

[–]aint_no_fag 1 point2 points ago

You Sir, have a bag of upvotes for making me laugh out loud in my office. YMMD.

[–]fishnetdiver 3 points4 points ago

Pinky! Get off the line!

[–]AspiringShvatza 8 points9 points ago

Oh my, the camera almost ran over the child.

[–]FickleWalrus 2 points3 points ago

My sister was friends with a young woman who, for reasons that will eternally be unclear to me, fell asleep while sunbathing on the rails and had one of her legs amputated by the passing train.

So I guess what I'm saying is: people do stupid things, and they appear to do extra-stupid things around trains.

[–]green_clock 3 points4 points ago

People do stupid things, crossing a track like this is certainly one of them.

BUT sunbathing on a train track, and doing it in such a manner that allows you to fall asleep - it is hard impossible to think of something more stupid than that.

[–]Redditsays 5 points6 points ago

Holy shit I know this video. I was searching for videos of trains hitting people on youtube and I did stumble upon this one. The driver yelled out something like Stupid kids! I'll find the link for you all, hang on...

LINK

[–]PoopBucket 4 points5 points ago

Sounds like a great pastime, indeed.

[–]Redditsays 0 points1 point ago

Twas indeed a great pastime, I found many videos from cows being slammed, people being pushed and suicide attempts.

[–]airnoone 13 points14 points ago

I was searching for videos of trains hitting people on youtube

ಠ_ಠ I think this says something about the modern age...

[–]desynch 1 point2 points ago

you know shit's about to go down when a train conductor stops his ~8,000 ton train to have words with you.

[–]rotaryheaven 1 point2 points ago

relevant

[–]ma582 1 point2 points ago

"Whoaaaaaa.... whew"

[–]tfiggs 1 point2 points ago

Oh Long Johnson! Oh Long Johnson! Oh Long Johnson!

[–]PizzaGood 1 point2 points ago

That's the kind of shit that causes train drivers to seek psychiatric help. Seriously, I heard an NPR report a few years ago that train drivers quit due to stress quite a lot. Something to do with watching helplessly as the train they're on squashes people.

Sure, people are being idiots, but still.

[–]iDontShift 0 points1 point ago

indecision almost got that kid killed...

[–]Aled88 0 points1 point ago

People are stupid.

[–]Palamede 0 points1 point ago

Dat loop.

[–]SirHumanoid 0 points1 point ago

Damn...Idiot got saved...Humanity got dumber...

[–]Ajaxxx -1 points0 points ago

This could have been a lot worse.

Nah, Darwin award winners make the world better by their elimination, not survival.

[–]leviticus11 -3 points-2 points ago

A kid I grew up with died this way, thanks.

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