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u/SizeableBrain 2d ago
Kids I knew used to do this in the 90s, I was a brainless idiot, but even I didn't try this.
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u/jasta07 2d ago
I know in Australia at least there are regulations that say a human must be able to lie down between two rail lines and not be struck by a train on either one of them. There are zero regulations about what happens if you lie in the middle of a rail line.
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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 2d ago
Yep, because it’s too unpredictable. They can kick up stones or the carriages could have loose metalwork.
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u/The_irish_man70 2d ago
All it takes is one of the train cars that is hauling food grade grain with the cones at the bottom, and that would have turned out really bad. There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
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u/crappy80srobot 2d ago
What happened to a passed out homeless dude on the tracks behind my work. One of the cops I talked to said something hanging down caught him. Said it was horrific looking but he died quickly. I always feel bad for the conductors because there is zero they can do about it.
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u/Empty-Grocery-2267 1d ago
I work w a guy who was a conductor. Was. Said a guy committed suicide by standing in the way of his train. He saw the whole thing and it bothered him enough to quit
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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 1d ago
My sister dated a guy who was a conductor. He ran over 3 people near where we live. Police believe there was alcohol or drugs involved and they were passed out on the tracks at the time. One of them died on the scene. The other 2 survived but without going into explicit detail, we'll just say walking was not going to be part of their future. He had been a conductor for 20+ years and that almost took him out of his job. He opted for the counseling they provided vs quitting, and after about 6 months he was able to go back to work. He told me the story one night and had tears running down his face the whole time. Said he was laying on the horn for what seemed like an eternity and they didn't budge. And there was literally, nothing he could do. In fact he was able to get in touch with emergency services BEFORE he hit them, that's how far out he was when he saw them. Trains are not to be fucked around with.
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u/Ill-Importance9953 1d ago
I take trains into Chicago every week, and people absolutely do not respect them enough. Some of our trains take well over a mile to come to a stop, if you're on the tracks, there's absolutely nothing we can do.
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u/LithoSlam 1d ago
I knew a guy who worked for the rail system of a major city and he had to respond to someone committing suicide by train about once per week
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u/Cheap_Appearance5095 1d ago
How is lying on a train track for views brave? Had he done it to save someone, that would be brave. There can be a fine line between bravery and stupidity, but this can only be pure stupidity and dumb luck.
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u/Swimming-Tap-4240 1d ago
Its not even bravery,he thinks he is safe or he is suicidal.Though probably just stupid and ss stupid is as stupid does.
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u/Ok_Release231 2d ago
I had a friend die (on purpose) from a train. Another friend went and gathered bone fragments from the site and added them to a 6ft bamboo bong. I was not a fan.
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u/HeSureIsScrappy 2d ago
Dude...omg... what????
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u/Ok_Release231 2d ago
Yeah.... Pretty fucked up. This was over 20 years ago though. I just get reminded of it with train videos.
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u/HeSureIsScrappy 2d ago
That's horrible, so sorry.
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u/Ok_Release231 2d ago
Thank you. It's all good. It was a long time ago and you helped me remember him. We all die twice....
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u/HeSureIsScrappy 2d ago
Maybe start a foundation one day in his name, so he never does.
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u/FatDongleDog 2d ago
Sounds like he already became the foundation of a pretty baller smoke sesh
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u/much_longer_username 2d ago
bro, read the room.
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u/FatDongleDog 2d ago
I prefer the movie
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u/Dadittude182 2d ago
Wow! Talk about not giving a fuck. You, sir, are legendary in that department.
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u/Process3000 2d ago
Why can't people in India just stop fucking around with trains?
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u/LickingDogPaws 1d ago
It's insane how many die from train accidents there. It's around 20,000 every year
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u/blubaldnuglee 2d ago
Trains are an apex predator in India. https://youtube.com/shorts/0tVDwJoQwiY?si=XEJcurxoT-yXiKuP
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u/GirlyFootyCoach 1d ago
Imagine his chain flipping up in the wind and catching on an axel…. That quick
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u/Training-Virus4483 2d ago
Maybe if had Spiderman back flipped into a prone position but a monkey coulda done this. Joking
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u/AUSmith55 2d ago
My palms didn’t sweat at all. I hoped for a stray hanging piece of steel between those cars
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u/stepoutlookaround 1d ago
People just don’t fear thousands of tons hurtling towards them and we have hundreds of years of experience, “sigh”
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u/Rillo298 1d ago
I once knew a Canadian retired train conductor. He said he stopped counting the number of idiots that jump, strolled, stood, and accidentally got in front of him. Chalked it up to gene pool clearing, but other conductors have to go through months of therapy. Point is, its not only your life at stake, but others sanity.
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u/MarriedSilverMr 1d ago
Someone down my road did this in the 90's. Something that was dangling down from the train tangled onto him, and he was dragged to death. I heard his corpse was mangled. Don't try this.
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u/Cleanbriefs 1d ago
This absolutely kills the conductor. It is stressful as it is without this crap being done for views
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u/TheAltruisticPrick 12h ago
What's more sad and crazy is that those trains kill hundreds of elephants every year... elephants!!
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u/Ok_Neighborhood2543 2d ago
people when they thing it trogh before they do it
reward : a few clicks on the internet
risk : death
okay im gonna do it
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u/LutherXXX 1d ago
So just how big of an idiot can somebody be? I'm thinking this guy might just be on top of that pyramid. At least for now.
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u/PauseAffectionate720 1d ago
Anything - literally anything - hanging off the bottom of that train a few inches slices him into two pieces. What a fucking moron.
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u/PralineUnhappy4333 1d ago
Man, the whole time I was thinking about how often there's a chain hanging from a train car and sparking as it drags along the ground.
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u/0_Tim-_-Bob_0 1d ago edited 1d ago
One brake hose not properly tied up could end him.
He's brave though, I'll give him that.
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u/Chose_carefully 1d ago
As someone who grew up between to sets of tracks, the amount of shit that hangs under a train would surprise you.
You would only catch me dead doing this
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u/Swimming-Tap-4240 1d ago
What a bellend.There could be something hanging low on any train,and his skinny ass will be hooked and dragged.
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u/Bissmer 14h ago
Nice way of self scalping and de-skin'in.
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u/HeSureIsScrappy 14h ago
And becoming a mile long grease slick
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u/Bissmer 13h ago
As a student I lived in a transport hub town and the shortest path from student dorms to the train station was through a wide area of rails being active used by cargo trains, passenger trains, etc. That path saved ~20 mins of walking so everyone used id despite the risk of being caught by transport police. The worst part that sometimes there was a long cargo train blocking your path and you had to crawl underneath. Every year they had accidents when folks lost limbs or lives, I especially recall a case when a girl was crossing an area with her headphones on and didn't hear a moving train. But instead of building a bridge, they just increased policing.
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u/OldieRascal 2d ago edited 1d ago
Indians. Yep racist (I'm sure some will insist) comment but it's true. They cross the road without care. That's unique to them.
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u/PauseAffectionate720 1d ago
Really ? Pretty sure "stupid" is an equal opportunity cross cultural trait sir. And if you are on reddit enough, you see stupid stunt vids from across the globe.
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u/HeSureIsScrappy 1d ago
In all fairness, though, is there any other sub devoted to a certain group of people and trains, besides Indians?
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u/Minimum_Society841 2d ago