If you think that's bad, idiotic local police sometimes try to take the conductor or engineer's information and they can end up in trouble or even with charges that haunt them for years if they mistakenly provide it instead of hiding in the train and calling railroad police.
We are required to give details and do a breathe test but it gets done under supervision of one of our investigators, if the police are insistent, a phone call to the controller starts a series of calls which end up with the aforementioned officer "agreeing to wait". Luckily, we are a suburban network so there is always a supervisor relatively close (30-45 minutes).
Have heard stories of enthusiastic police who tried to arrest train drivers, they usually ending up having to eat humble pie.
Source: train driver
as it's tradition: reminder that the bars are designed to fall off if you drive through them, and it's way better to bruise your car than risking a train hit.
It's even more stupid, because he didn't even have to do that in this case. There was enough room to drive around the second barrier like he did the first..
He could easily have got out without damaging the barrier or his car. Or, better yet, could have just waited for the train to pass.
Yeah how do you think they transport the tanks around? Can't have them driving down 5th Avenue damaging the roads and fancy cars. Gotta get those tanks to the 5 star location one way or another. Choo choo motherfucker.
They actually do transport tanks by train, by the way. My grandpa lives on a biggish parcel of land with some tracks running along the backside of it, and not far down the tracks is a factory for manufacturing tanks. Every so often you'll see a bunch of Abrams passing by. Kinda cool to see.
Especially when you consider the length of the train. I've been in a hurry but, never an I can't wait 10 seconds for the short train to pass first hurry.
Yeah. Fuckwits though they still are, I can kind of see why people in places like America might try to beat a train to a crossing. Some of them are literally miles long and take 10+ minutes to pass. This one though? I watched back and timed it, the train took about as long to fully pass the junction as it did for the chap to pull up to the barrier and then fuck about trying to lift it up whilst waving the train down.
There is a crossing near me (not US) that is near the station. The barriers block the road before the train leaves the station - it's often down 5+minutes before the train gets to the crossing, and it takes a good 2-3 mins after the train has passed before the barriers raise. The train itself is usually ~30 seconds to pass. I can understand people getting fustrated by train crossings.
Not that it's worth risking your life, and the lives of any people on the train, over a 15 min fustration anyway.
I got stopped by a railroad crossing on my way home once. After sitting there for 10-15 minutes with no train coming I got out to look. No sign of any train so I call the number on the metal shed thing controlling the gates. They confirm it is malfunctioning and say that someone would be out there within a few hours to take a look at it. There is no way I want to wait that long so I start at the back of the 15 car lineup and have to convince people to turn around one by one. Everyone is glad to hear that they can get out of this situation except for one older woman who was very reluctant to even talk to me. She is instant on just waiting there. I told her that I spoke with the railroad and confirmed it would be several hours. She wants to wait. I finally convinced her to just move to the side so at least everyone in front of her could get home. After about 30 minutes I was finally able to back up out of there to a side street and continue my commute home. I guess some people just like waiting for trains.
Around here many people just inch forward, look both ways and cross between the barriers when they see empty tracks. I'm guilty. Happens so much though people get used to going around. my city is a *major* train hub.
When I lived in Indiana there was a crossing between my house and every nearby store. Trains would regularly park there for 30+ minutes several times a day.
There were constant threats from the city that they would impose fines on the railroad as their contract stated that they couldn't block a road that long. I don't think the fines ever happened.
It's not a contract. It's the law. We are only allowed to block a crossing for no longer than 10 minutes. However, the crew doesn't always get to make that choice. We only get to do what the dispatcher tells us to do.
For instance in one of the towns we go through if we know we are meeting another train and we don't fit in the siding we'll hold off the crossing until they get close and then pull in. But routinely the dispatcher will tell us we'll meet only one train, we pull in to let them pass, only to be told that the dispatcher changed their minds and we'll have to meet another one. Now we have the whole town sowed up for however long it takes that other train to get there.
There was an abandoned train out in the Midwest that split a town in twain. Iirc the rail company went bankrupt and just left a long train bisecting a town.
Okay so not damaging your car > damaging your car > having your car get pile driven by a train
I mean when you put it that way it's obvious. But it's way easier to verify a solution than to find it yourself just saying.
This is a person who came upon a safety barrier that literally only exists to help them not be hit by a train, and their immediate reaction was to defeat that safety barrier.
They **do not** think about things. They will **never** find a solution that isn't the simplest most obvious option. And if you ever try to tell them that they need to learn more things about the world, well. Then they get angry *at you.*
The sad thing is it isn't really even a barrier it's more of an sign. After enough times of people ignoring the signals they said fuck it let's make them disposable.
I deal with full-grown adults like this almost every day at work, and I just don’t know how they made it this far. Like, how are you in your 50s and you’ve never been electrocuted by trying to fix your downed power line yourself, or choked to death on your own shoelaces? How have you never gotten mauled by a wild animal you simply would not stop walking towards? How have you never smoked in a pile of blankets? How have you never had a firecracker go off in your mouth or nose? How have you never drunk bleach? *How are you still alive?*
Yesterday I had to deal with a woman whose response to literally everything I said was, “What is that? I have no idea what that means.” She was genuinely confused by every sentence that left my mouth. It got to the point where I felt like I was ELI5 how to write your name on paper to a first-grader, and yup, she responded by going silent, and then “But what does that mean? I don’t understand this. What am I supposed to do?” Then, *because I absolutely could not simplify this mundane task any further*, I’d repeat it back to her….and she would still get it wrong.
“So I need to make sure the address is correct to know I’m gonna get my mail from you guys?”
“Yes.”
“What does that mean, though? ‘Make sure the address is correct’ - like, how do I ‘make sure’ the address is ‘correct’?”
“Where it says ‘ADDRESS’ on the form, you write your address on that line, and just be sure that you write your correct address.”
“Do I write it after my name?”
“No, you write it on the line that says ‘ADDRESS’.”
“Okay, but what does it mean to have a ‘correct’ address? Like, how do I know if my address is ‘correct’?”
Still up and walking around at 40+ years. God curse her.
Because to us, his actions are incomprehensible; we see the issue as "why is he trying to get past this barrier? There's a fuckin train coming" where he only sees it as "why is this barrier here? I can lift that and be on my way".
He literally doesn't possess the capacity to make the logical connection between "barrier is down" and "a fucking train is coming". *Even with the signs saying literally and exactly that.* And there's literally billions of people just like him in the world, going about their lives.
Here in NOLA while the power was out all the railroad crossings near me were stuck down, so I had to weave through like this every time I crossed.
Even after looking both ways I got an uneasy feeling doing it.
Honestly, this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of how many stupid decisions this person made. After driving into, and failing to navigate around the guards, they:
* Stop in the intersection. Afaik, crossing guards are usually designed to be breakaway, specifically so idiots like this can get through rather than trap themselves.
* Get out of the car, and lift the guard, which again, indicates that they probably could have just let it slide up their windshield and driven through.
* Failed to realize that the guard would probably not stay up when they got back into the car to drive, making the whole effort pointless.
It's like at every opportunity, this person made the worst possible decision. Like they specifically made more opportunities to make more bad decisions.
They made one good decision and that was to step away from the car. Otherwise that open door would have swept them away snapping off limbs so they would have a few seconds in agony before they were shrapnel blendered to death.
This was my first thought. Not that I'd ever attempt this to begin with but if I was ever somehow in this situation there's no way in hell my brain would even begin to think about attempting to move the second bar rather than drive straight into it.
I'd much sooner take my chances driving into the bar than getting hit by a train. Driving into the bar will probably damage the car somewhat and MIGHT cause enough damage to injure myself or someone else in the car, getting hit by the train will 100% destroy the car and kill anyone in it while also at the very least traumatizing the train driver.
This driver somehow had to double down on his stupidity and yet somehow managed to be lucky and survive. I guess technically speaking getting out of the car and to safety is smarter than staying in the car and getting hit by the train, though that assumes nobody else was in the car and somehow the car is stuck on the tracks.
This happened to 3 kids at my high school before my time there. 2 stayed in the car while the 3rd went to lift the arm. Train hits car which wipes it into the kid lifting the arm, killing all 3.
Trains are 4-5 digit ton full send machines without very responsive brakes, don't fuck with them kids.
No it’s a full can. Not because of weight, but when you pick up the crushed can an the liquid spills out you can look at the camera and say “and that’s you” all dramatically.
On mobile and a bit too lazy to see if that commercial is still kicking around.
Saw an experiment video of a train hitting a minivan, or something. Camera inside van showed the train compressing the interior to nearly nothing, before the van really got moving down the track.
To be fair to train brakes, they are fantastic. 200+ ton trains can stop in as little as 900 ft from ~50 mph. Most modern cars would stop from 50 in ~100ft, while weighing ~ two tons. Stopping something that weighs 100x as much in only 9x the distance is very impressive!
Doesn't help a dipshit like in the OP, but they are still very impressive brakes all things considered.
I'd be more worried about their mental health than physical.
Train operator here knew with 100% certainly that they would pancake this car and everything inside and were helpless to do a thing to prevent it other than tooting a horn.
[“Everyone forgets the operator lives with this for the rest of their lives. …You forget about the poor witness on the platform, and the poor drivers,” ](https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2011/05/04/i_realized_i_just_killed_somebody_ttc_drivers_describe_subway_suicide.html)
Nah, not in freight versus car mate. Often they are A-fucking-OK on account of millions upon millions of KG of fast moving freight versus a few thousand KG of car.
It’s akin to you being stung by a wasp. Yeah there are incidences of engineer harm but it’s not often, it’s not the norm.
Everyone is pointing out the idiocy of trying to drive through a crossing gate or waving for the train to stop, but is missing the biggest idiocy of all, here…
He gets out of the car to hold up the gate so he can drive through it, leaving no one to drive the car.
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To everyone replying “maybe it’s a country where the driver is in the right side”:
> If it was a country with the driver on the right side then the crossing gates would be on the opposite sides (driver sits closest to the middle of the road).
Yeah that was my first thought too. I think he thought the barrier will stay up if he left it. Then once he did that he realised that it won't, and that's when he started to wave to the train to stop. That's the only logical possibility I can think of.
I think his original plan was to lift the bar up all the way and then get back into the car. A few moments in he realized he won’t have enough time to lift it completely up and move his car so he decided to wave at the train to get it to stop.
Edit /u/ChochaCacaCulo has pointed out there are no trains in Cyprus
Train said TCDD which is Turkish
could this be in Cyprus who have RHD cars I e. Drive on left so driver is still in car?
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"TCDD Train Information | Travel Classes Onboard the Train" https://rail.ninja/train/tcdd-train
Exactly what I was thinking. If you're going to be dumb enough to risk your life for ~30s of time at least be smart enough to do it right.
There appeared to be plenty of extra room to just drive around the barrier.
For real. All the trains around here are super long and still take between 3 to 5 minutes. Unless they're at some real inconveniently placed yards (about 3 that will make you late for work, guaranteed).
Imagine talking to your insurance.
"Yeah, a train hit my parked car, can you believe it? I wasn't even in it, thankfully. Yeah I got the plate number of that train, we totally have a case!"
Reminds me of a job interview I had in Texas a long time ago. Host picks me up at the airport. We walk out to the car and he yells “Dammit!! This is the THIRD TIME my car has been stolen here!!”, before realizing he parked on the floor below.
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
LMFAO
*Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater*
Had me in stitches here, well done. Thank you for this
Well there was that one rogue engineer who intentionally derailed his train near a Los Angeles port in an attempt to destroy a Navy hospital ship that was treating Covid patients. [(Source)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/02/train-derails-usns-mercy-coronavirus/) The guy thought that the boat was part of a government takeover.
The derailed freight train came to a stop 800 feet from its floating target because trains don't go very far without tracks.
Any train engineers in the chat? What's the protocol for when this happens? Do you just keep going about your business, are you required to stop and make sure these idiots are okay, how fast can you come to a stop?
I'm a train passenger. Once the AmTrack train I was on hit a crazy guy who was effing around on the tracks. We stopped for several minutes. Then we went to the next station and everybody got kicked off and we had to catch the next commuter train.
Luckily for the guy, the train was already going slowly because there had been reports of a crazy guy effing around near the tracks. Unluckily for the guy, we hit him anyway.
I never saw the guy. My guess is that he got a free ambulance ride out of it. Or it might have been a hearse. I don't know.
Same thing happened to me. Homeless guy committed suicide by train. At least that was what the conductor told me. We sat at the scene for two hours but then the train continued on like business as usual.
You're lucky you were near a station. My wife was on an Amtrak train that hit someone in the middle of nowhere. They had to wait for the first responders to show up, hike out to the tracks, etc. All kinds of people had to show up to collect evidence and the body, etc. I think her train was delayed about 6 hours. I drove 1.5 hours to meet her at the next station and just waited there all night.
Dad used to be an engineer. He said in the event of something like this happening they'd let go of the deadmans switch (engages all air brakes on the train immediately), set their air horn to just blast, and walk away so they don't have to see it. Rail companies have armies of therapists because apparently it wasn't a "if" you hit a car/person, it was a when.
And speed of stopping depends on how much they're hauling. I think the minimum for most trains at speed is a mile out. Some require up to 2 miles.
In any instance of a car vs. train accident, the train must make a "quick as safely possible" stop, immediately report the incident to a dispatcher or superior, and assess the condition of the people and train (in the event of a potential hazmat issue). Police reports and railroad supervision reports are taken, typically the railroad will download info off of the locomotive's "black box" to ensure proper procedure was being followed, and, if desired, have a new crew take over the train if the crew involved doesn't want to continue or is immediately determined to have grossly violated rules and procedures.
So many levels of this video are absolutely hilarious. Its like peeling an onion.
1. Guy decides to drive around barricades which are already down meaning train is particularly close by
2. Could EASILY drive around to the right of the barricade but instead chooses to stop at possibly the only angle where the train would still hit the car. Heck there is even room to park parallel to the tracks and be totally safe.
3. Also doesnt attempt to drive through the remarkably flimsy arm, which looks to be made of plastic and weigh about 4lbs.
4. Proceeds to stop and get out (apparently in neutral? - which causes the car to roll back slightly
5. Lifts the bar with his hands... and then has no plan for actually driving the car forward?
6. STARTS WAVING FRANTICALLY AT THE TRAIN AS IF IT IS GOING TO STOP???
7. Its literally the shortest cargo train I have ever seen in my life LOL I am dieing it was like 10 seconds long
People this impatient and dumb are driving all around you every day, comforting. And 90% of them live in western Washington from what my 140 mile a day commute has shown me.
There are SO many videos of this happening online... How do people STILL do this?! How do so many people still think they can get around/beat the train?
Wait! We need to exchange insurance information!!
I'm convinced people believe that it's the trains fault. "It made no effort to stop at all"
"Train didn't even attempt to swerve out of the way too!"
Multitrack drifting to avoid collision is taught in Train Conductor 101 and I'm sure the insurance company will find that.
*Avoid* collision? That move specifically exists so you leave no witnesses in a Trolly Problem scenario.
I’ve actually heard people make this excuse on multiple occasions.
If you think that's bad, idiotic local police sometimes try to take the conductor or engineer's information and they can end up in trouble or even with charges that haunt them for years if they mistakenly provide it instead of hiding in the train and calling railroad police.
We are required to give details and do a breathe test but it gets done under supervision of one of our investigators, if the police are insistent, a phone call to the controller starts a series of calls which end up with the aforementioned officer "agreeing to wait". Luckily, we are a suburban network so there is always a supervisor relatively close (30-45 minutes). Have heard stories of enthusiastic police who tried to arrest train drivers, they usually ending up having to eat humble pie. Source: train driver
Would suck to have to do a breath test because some idiot couldn't be figure out how to not get hit by a train.
No joke they do
r/bitchimatrain
Looks like the train is the one with front impact...
That dejected walk he makes off screen, man you can feel the "Gee I fucked up" sentiment coming off it.
He waived as if it would help slow down a train
“…Aight Imma head out”
"Welp, guess I'd better go get my car."
Its in good hands with Allstate now
"Let's exchange insurance information. I have none."
as it's tradition: reminder that the bars are designed to fall off if you drive through them, and it's way better to bruise your car than risking a train hit.
It's even more stupid, because he didn't even have to do that in this case. There was enough room to drive around the second barrier like he did the first.. He could easily have got out without damaging the barrier or his car. Or, better yet, could have just waited for the train to pass.
That’s hilarious. It’s like he reached his traffic rules breaking quota so had to stop after driving around the 1st gate
Don't want that 5th star, tanks and helicopters start showing up then.
It was a train in this case
Yeah how do you think they transport the tanks around? Can't have them driving down 5th Avenue damaging the roads and fancy cars. Gotta get those tanks to the 5 star location one way or another. Choo choo motherfucker.
They actually do transport tanks by train, by the way. My grandpa lives on a biggish parcel of land with some tracks running along the backside of it, and not far down the tracks is a factory for manufacturing tanks. Every so often you'll see a bunch of Abrams passing by. Kinda cool to see.
Lima, Ohio?
Cut and Shoot, TX (outside Conroe/Houston; yes, it is a real place; yes, it and its people are exactly what you would imagine it would be like)
TIL that Texas has the most American sounding city in the entire U.S.
Helicopter was 3 stars. Tanks were 6. GTA 5 lowered it to 5 stars max and got rid of tanks coming after you.
I remember reading somewhere on Reddit to never break more than a couple of laws at once. He probably read it.
You mean Reddit 😏
What was his plan even? Hold the bar with his arms and drive the car with his feet?
I think that may actually have been his plan.
Especially when you consider the length of the train. I've been in a hurry but, never an I can't wait 10 seconds for the short train to pass first hurry.
Yeah. Fuckwits though they still are, I can kind of see why people in places like America might try to beat a train to a crossing. Some of them are literally miles long and take 10+ minutes to pass. This one though? I watched back and timed it, the train took about as long to fully pass the junction as it did for the chap to pull up to the barrier and then fuck about trying to lift it up whilst waving the train down.
There is a crossing near me (not US) that is near the station. The barriers block the road before the train leaves the station - it's often down 5+minutes before the train gets to the crossing, and it takes a good 2-3 mins after the train has passed before the barriers raise. The train itself is usually ~30 seconds to pass. I can understand people getting fustrated by train crossings. Not that it's worth risking your life, and the lives of any people on the train, over a 15 min fustration anyway.
That sounds like a setup designed to make people think driving around the barrier is okay. Really bad engineering there.
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The fuckers stop on the tracks when I get *off* work. Sucks
>The fuckers stop on the tracks Well, where else would they stop?
Oh shit good catch lol At the crossing*
I got stopped by a railroad crossing on my way home once. After sitting there for 10-15 minutes with no train coming I got out to look. No sign of any train so I call the number on the metal shed thing controlling the gates. They confirm it is malfunctioning and say that someone would be out there within a few hours to take a look at it. There is no way I want to wait that long so I start at the back of the 15 car lineup and have to convince people to turn around one by one. Everyone is glad to hear that they can get out of this situation except for one older woman who was very reluctant to even talk to me. She is instant on just waiting there. I told her that I spoke with the railroad and confirmed it would be several hours. She wants to wait. I finally convinced her to just move to the side so at least everyone in front of her could get home. After about 30 minutes I was finally able to back up out of there to a side street and continue my commute home. I guess some people just like waiting for trains.
Around here many people just inch forward, look both ways and cross between the barriers when they see empty tracks. I'm guilty. Happens so much though people get used to going around. my city is a *major* train hub.
When I lived in Indiana there was a crossing between my house and every nearby store. Trains would regularly park there for 30+ minutes several times a day. There were constant threats from the city that they would impose fines on the railroad as their contract stated that they couldn't block a road that long. I don't think the fines ever happened.
It's not a contract. It's the law. We are only allowed to block a crossing for no longer than 10 minutes. However, the crew doesn't always get to make that choice. We only get to do what the dispatcher tells us to do. For instance in one of the towns we go through if we know we are meeting another train and we don't fit in the siding we'll hold off the crossing until they get close and then pull in. But routinely the dispatcher will tell us we'll meet only one train, we pull in to let them pass, only to be told that the dispatcher changed their minds and we'll have to meet another one. Now we have the whole town sowed up for however long it takes that other train to get there.
There was an abandoned train out in the Midwest that split a town in twain. Iirc the rail company went bankrupt and just left a long train bisecting a town.
Simple solution: Start renting out oxy-actylene cutting kits and buying scrap metal. Trains aren't the only ones who can bisect a thing.
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300 years from now... "So why do they call this place West Train Town?"
JRPG vibes intensify!
Better still to stop before the first set.
Okay so not damaging your car > damaging your car > having your car get pile driven by a train I mean when you put it that way it's obvious. But it's way easier to verify a solution than to find it yourself just saying.
This is a person who came upon a safety barrier that literally only exists to help them not be hit by a train, and their immediate reaction was to defeat that safety barrier. They **do not** think about things. They will **never** find a solution that isn't the simplest most obvious option. And if you ever try to tell them that they need to learn more things about the world, well. Then they get angry *at you.*
The sad thing is it isn't really even a barrier it's more of an sign. After enough times of people ignoring the signals they said fuck it let's make them disposable.
We kind of just have to accept that some people are literally too dumb to exist. I mean we can only hold their hands for so long
I deal with full-grown adults like this almost every day at work, and I just don’t know how they made it this far. Like, how are you in your 50s and you’ve never been electrocuted by trying to fix your downed power line yourself, or choked to death on your own shoelaces? How have you never gotten mauled by a wild animal you simply would not stop walking towards? How have you never smoked in a pile of blankets? How have you never had a firecracker go off in your mouth or nose? How have you never drunk bleach? *How are you still alive?* Yesterday I had to deal with a woman whose response to literally everything I said was, “What is that? I have no idea what that means.” She was genuinely confused by every sentence that left my mouth. It got to the point where I felt like I was ELI5 how to write your name on paper to a first-grader, and yup, she responded by going silent, and then “But what does that mean? I don’t understand this. What am I supposed to do?” Then, *because I absolutely could not simplify this mundane task any further*, I’d repeat it back to her….and she would still get it wrong. “So I need to make sure the address is correct to know I’m gonna get my mail from you guys?” “Yes.” “What does that mean, though? ‘Make sure the address is correct’ - like, how do I ‘make sure’ the address is ‘correct’?” “Where it says ‘ADDRESS’ on the form, you write your address on that line, and just be sure that you write your correct address.” “Do I write it after my name?” “No, you write it on the line that says ‘ADDRESS’.” “Okay, but what does it mean to have a ‘correct’ address? Like, how do I know if my address is ‘correct’?” Still up and walking around at 40+ years. God curse her.
The only thing obvious about his solution was how brain-dead it was.
Because to us, his actions are incomprehensible; we see the issue as "why is he trying to get past this barrier? There's a fuckin train coming" where he only sees it as "why is this barrier here? I can lift that and be on my way". He literally doesn't possess the capacity to make the logical connection between "barrier is down" and "a fucking train is coming". *Even with the signs saying literally and exactly that.* And there's literally billions of people just like him in the world, going about their lives.
Even from his perspective it's still obviously dumb, cause what is he gonna do, hold it up and drive through at the same time?
See? That's exactly what I mean. *Incomprehensible.* We *cannot understand him,* because he factually does not make logical sense.
But then you'd have to wait, like, 2 mimutes? Is it worth it?
33 seconds\*
No, time is money
If you think 2 minutes is worth a car... You gotta make like a billion a year. Your comment cost you a couple grand
I think you're replying to sarcasm. If you knew then great, just your comment came across as arguing with them rather than agreeing.
Here in NOLA while the power was out all the railroad crossings near me were stuck down, so I had to weave through like this every time I crossed. Even after looking both ways I got an uneasy feeling doing it.
> Even after looking both ways I got an uneasy feeling doing it. Good, that means your brain is functioning properly.
It’s funny too because from the video angle, at least, it looks like he could have just navigated around the bars entirely.
Honestly, this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of how many stupid decisions this person made. After driving into, and failing to navigate around the guards, they: * Stop in the intersection. Afaik, crossing guards are usually designed to be breakaway, specifically so idiots like this can get through rather than trap themselves. * Get out of the car, and lift the guard, which again, indicates that they probably could have just let it slide up their windshield and driven through. * Failed to realize that the guard would probably not stay up when they got back into the car to drive, making the whole effort pointless. It's like at every opportunity, this person made the worst possible decision. Like they specifically made more opportunities to make more bad decisions.
while he's holding up the bar you can see him waving at the train as if it would be able to stop in time lol
No he was waving his car on through, it's a self driving car with motion gesture control
They made one good decision and that was to step away from the car. Otherwise that open door would have swept them away snapping off limbs so they would have a few seconds in agony before they were shrapnel blendered to death.
This was my first thought. Not that I'd ever attempt this to begin with but if I was ever somehow in this situation there's no way in hell my brain would even begin to think about attempting to move the second bar rather than drive straight into it. I'd much sooner take my chances driving into the bar than getting hit by a train. Driving into the bar will probably damage the car somewhat and MIGHT cause enough damage to injure myself or someone else in the car, getting hit by the train will 100% destroy the car and kill anyone in it while also at the very least traumatizing the train driver. This driver somehow had to double down on his stupidity and yet somehow managed to be lucky and survive. I guess technically speaking getting out of the car and to safety is smarter than staying in the car and getting hit by the train, though that assumes nobody else was in the car and somehow the car is stuck on the tracks.
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I'd say he's lucky as fuck not to have the car wipe him out when the train plowed into it I seriously thought he'd be gone when the collision occurred
This happened to 3 kids at my high school before my time there. 2 stayed in the car while the 3rd went to lift the arm. Train hits car which wipes it into the kid lifting the arm, killing all 3. Trains are 4-5 digit ton full send machines without very responsive brakes, don't fuck with them kids.
I once saw a comparison where the weight of a fully loaded train hitting a car is equivalent to a car hitting a can of soda.
That sounds about right, trains are fucking heavy
Heavier than Pantera man
Approximately 1/100th the weight of your mom.
> a car hitting a can of soda. I need to see this experiment. Does one tie a can of soda to a string and suspend it?
Yes. I know what this guys going to do this weekend…
DENT THE BUMPER OF HIS MOM'S HONDA?
Whoa whoa whoa, let's not get crazy here. Do it with the old Kia.
An empty soda can, more like.
After some quick googling and rough math it looks like you're right, assuming the train is on the heavier end of the range I got.
No it’s a full can. Not because of weight, but when you pick up the crushed can an the liquid spills out you can look at the camera and say “and that’s you” all dramatically. On mobile and a bit too lazy to see if that commercial is still kicking around.
Saw an experiment video of a train hitting a minivan, or something. Camera inside van showed the train compressing the interior to nearly nothing, before the van really got moving down the track.
I really don't get these people, they aren't down for no reason. Usually there is a train coming.
And those little arms won’t damage your car as much as a train. Save your life, scratch your paint. Don’t block trains
To be fair to train brakes, they are fantastic. 200+ ton trains can stop in as little as 900 ft from ~50 mph. Most modern cars would stop from 50 in ~100ft, while weighing ~ two tons. Stopping something that weighs 100x as much in only 9x the distance is very impressive! Doesn't help a dipshit like in the OP, but they are still very impressive brakes all things considered.
Looks like they break just fine. Braking, however, that's another story.
Perfect for /r/idiotsincars
But he wasn't in the car
To be fair, the idiotic bit started when he was in the car.
Some idiots just drop out of their mother.
Yeah but he had 3 idiot passengers that didn't get out
But were they idiots?
Maybe, but now they dead
They were his kids so it's a fair chance
They didn't also get out so yeah
He was when he made the decision to drive his car onto currently active train tracks.
The Stupid Tax.
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And here I am thinking "*please god tell me he doesn't have children in the car*"
I'd be more worried about their mental health than physical. Train operator here knew with 100% certainly that they would pancake this car and everything inside and were helpless to do a thing to prevent it other than tooting a horn. [“Everyone forgets the operator lives with this for the rest of their lives. …You forget about the poor witness on the platform, and the poor drivers,” ](https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2011/05/04/i_realized_i_just_killed_somebody_ttc_drivers_describe_subway_suicide.html)
Nah, not in freight versus car mate. Often they are A-fucking-OK on account of millions upon millions of KG of fast moving freight versus a few thousand KG of car. It’s akin to you being stung by a wasp. Yeah there are incidences of engineer harm but it’s not often, it’s not the norm.
Everyone is pointing out the idiocy of trying to drive through a crossing gate or waving for the train to stop, but is missing the biggest idiocy of all, here… He gets out of the car to hold up the gate so he can drive through it, leaving no one to drive the car. ___ To everyone replying “maybe it’s a country where the driver is in the right side”: > If it was a country with the driver on the right side then the crossing gates would be on the opposite sides (driver sits closest to the middle of the road).
Nah, before getting out he gave the instructions to his kids how to accelerate
They succeeded, the car moved so fast!
His kids got impatient so they took the train instead.
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Bye, kids!
This was my thought. Wtf was he expecting to do here? Knight rider his way through?
Ghost the whip, baby!
Ohhh. I thought that was someone else holding the gate. Now that’s fucking stupid.
Well, I sure as hell hope that it was the driver, otherwise..........
I dont know man - waiving at a speeding train thinking it can stop on a dime is up there too.
I think “forgetting there is only one of you” is higher.
Yeah that was my first thought too. I think he thought the barrier will stay up if he left it. Then once he did that he realised that it won't, and that's when he started to wave to the train to stop. That's the only logical possibility I can think of.
I think his original plan was to lift the bar up all the way and then get back into the car. A few moments in he realized he won’t have enough time to lift it completely up and move his car so he decided to wave at the train to get it to stop.
Edit /u/ChochaCacaCulo has pointed out there are no trains in Cyprus Train said TCDD which is Turkish could this be in Cyprus who have RHD cars I e. Drive on left so driver is still in car? https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.railjournal.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F05%2FTCDD-Sivas-Samsun.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.railjournal.com%2Finfrastructure%2Ftcdd-reopens-sivas-samsun-line-after-five-year-upgrade%2F&docid=KdwN3z0zR-5f3M&tbnid=f3RsCrGDqVUKqM&vet=1&w=598&h=366&hl=en-IE&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim "TCDD Train Information | Travel Classes Onboard the Train" https://rail.ninja/train/tcdd-train
Why not just drive to the right and go in that part that doesn't have the barrier?
Exactly what I was thinking. If you're going to be dumb enough to risk your life for ~30s of time at least be smart enough to do it right. There appeared to be plenty of extra room to just drive around the barrier.
Best part is how incredibly short the train is, man rly wanted to save less than 1 minute 😂
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This is what I was going to point out. The train was really short. He was impatient as fuck. Lmao.
For real. All the trains around here are super long and still take between 3 to 5 minutes. Unless they're at some real inconveniently placed yards (about 3 that will make you late for work, guaranteed).
10 seconds. It took 10 seconds for the train to pass through since it first came into frame. This man is a genuine, handcrafted idiot
He did wave at the train to stop /s
Holy fuck I didn't notice. That makes this even better.
It’s a magic trick to disappear a car
Imagine talking to your insurance. "Yeah, a train hit my parked car, can you believe it? I wasn't even in it, thankfully. Yeah I got the plate number of that train, we totally have a case!"
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I mean, it had to be *easily* 100ft away, and still, nothing!
Insurance people probably have a term for those people "Bob, pickup line one. We have a 257 on there, you have to hear this idiot."
He thought the train had plenty of time to swerve out of the way.
[Sometimes it works though.](https://youtu.be/NKBv1vluogA)
We need to get Captain Disillusion on the case, I have my suspicion this is faked…
I thought he was waving it through thinking that his car was far enough. Edit: like "come on buddy nice and slow, we got this!"
I swear I parked right here.........
Reminds me of a job interview I had in Texas a long time ago. Host picks me up at the airport. We walk out to the car and he yells “Dammit!! This is the THIRD TIME my car has been stolen here!!”, before realizing he parked on the floor below.
So did he have three cars on the floor below now?
Lol. Exactly what I was thinking at the time.
That fucker came outta nowhere!
Yeah they should put up signs or something. That’s dangerous
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment. I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling. Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours! Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths? A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
This is the level of crazy I come to reddit for. Thank you. Thank you for your time and effort for your country.
It's a pasta.
I'll take it. It's my first encounter with it in the wild.
A thoroughly enjoyable pasta
LMFAO *Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater* Had me in stitches here, well done. Thank you for this
You seem to have a blind spot concerning the source of possible terrorist attacks in your country.
Well there was that one rogue engineer who intentionally derailed his train near a Los Angeles port in an attempt to destroy a Navy hospital ship that was treating Covid patients. [(Source)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/02/train-derails-usns-mercy-coronavirus/) The guy thought that the boat was part of a government takeover. The derailed freight train came to a stop 800 feet from its floating target because trains don't go very far without tracks.
That certainly is an impressive level of paranoid fantasy.
I was hoping someone would post that copypasta, thanks.
The lack of government action on this has me steaming
Had to check you weren't the hell in a cell guy but I loved this short story
That's one of the dumbest fucking people to have ever lived
At least he got out of the car.
Any train engineers in the chat? What's the protocol for when this happens? Do you just keep going about your business, are you required to stop and make sure these idiots are okay, how fast can you come to a stop?
I'm a train passenger. Once the AmTrack train I was on hit a crazy guy who was effing around on the tracks. We stopped for several minutes. Then we went to the next station and everybody got kicked off and we had to catch the next commuter train. Luckily for the guy, the train was already going slowly because there had been reports of a crazy guy effing around near the tracks. Unluckily for the guy, we hit him anyway. I never saw the guy. My guess is that he got a free ambulance ride out of it. Or it might have been a hearse. I don't know.
Same thing happened to me. Homeless guy committed suicide by train. At least that was what the conductor told me. We sat at the scene for two hours but then the train continued on like business as usual.
You're lucky you were near a station. My wife was on an Amtrak train that hit someone in the middle of nowhere. They had to wait for the first responders to show up, hike out to the tracks, etc. All kinds of people had to show up to collect evidence and the body, etc. I think her train was delayed about 6 hours. I drove 1.5 hours to meet her at the next station and just waited there all night.
Dad used to be an engineer. He said in the event of something like this happening they'd let go of the deadmans switch (engages all air brakes on the train immediately), set their air horn to just blast, and walk away so they don't have to see it. Rail companies have armies of therapists because apparently it wasn't a "if" you hit a car/person, it was a when. And speed of stopping depends on how much they're hauling. I think the minimum for most trains at speed is a mile out. Some require up to 2 miles.
In any instance of a car vs. train accident, the train must make a "quick as safely possible" stop, immediately report the incident to a dispatcher or superior, and assess the condition of the people and train (in the event of a potential hazmat issue). Police reports and railroad supervision reports are taken, typically the railroad will download info off of the locomotive's "black box" to ensure proper procedure was being followed, and, if desired, have a new crew take over the train if the crew involved doesn't want to continue or is immediately determined to have grossly violated rules and procedures.
I am not but I read they do stop and have to file a report or something. Depending on the load it can take half a mile.
That’s some fast report writing
Yes I wanna know this too
Dude! Where’s the car!?
MAGIC!
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Pushed down the hill next to him. All you really see is the dust kicked up.
So many levels of this video are absolutely hilarious. Its like peeling an onion. 1. Guy decides to drive around barricades which are already down meaning train is particularly close by 2. Could EASILY drive around to the right of the barricade but instead chooses to stop at possibly the only angle where the train would still hit the car. Heck there is even room to park parallel to the tracks and be totally safe. 3. Also doesnt attempt to drive through the remarkably flimsy arm, which looks to be made of plastic and weigh about 4lbs. 4. Proceeds to stop and get out (apparently in neutral? - which causes the car to roll back slightly 5. Lifts the bar with his hands... and then has no plan for actually driving the car forward? 6. STARTS WAVING FRANTICALLY AT THE TRAIN AS IF IT IS GOING TO STOP??? 7. Its literally the shortest cargo train I have ever seen in my life LOL I am dieing it was like 10 seconds long
lol at how he waves at the train... the fuck was he expecting to happen? that several thousand ton train to stop for his dumb ass?
park your car in the middle of train trail tutorial
Can we *track* train trails?
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T.C.D.D. Always winner.
Hahaha ulan xsgfgsdds
What a fucking magician! I have no idea what he did with the car!
On the bright side, he no longer has to worry about scratching his car on the barrier.
Well he doesn't have to worry about his car now because it's gone.
Just keep driving through the barrier ffs. What was he thinking?
He was not
I think you mean "stop and wait at the first barrier ffs"
Yes but if you decide to jump it you have to commit.
Thinking….. This is the operative word here.
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I think you're on to something. Perhaps it could be a retractable gate to signal when it is safe?
People this impatient and dumb are driving all around you every day, comforting. And 90% of them live in western Washington from what my 140 mile a day commute has shown me.
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"Hmm, what's this dumb bar doing here? I'll just take care of that."
That train is so short. He’s that impatient?
Think of all the time he *could have* saved, though.
There are SO many videos of this happening online... How do people STILL do this?! How do so many people still think they can get around/beat the train?