Saw this, on Denvers KOA/Iheart Radio website earlier: https://koanewsradio.iheart.com/con...wo-people-who-were-trespassing-on-the-tracks/ What really makes it hard, were the number of young children on board!
How Pathetic that two selfish, self-absorbed persons would have no respect for anything beyond themselves. I'm sorry for their families, but not for them.
I could not agree more. While they might not have deserved the outcome, it is TOTALLY on themselves. They, alone, erred in being at that place, at that time. My sorrow is for the train crew who saw that ending up close and personal. They did not deserve to be involved, nor carry such grief the rest of their lives. Nor did the passengers deserve to have their day wrecked.
As also was the case when a woman was hit by the UP's Frontier Days train, it's unfortunate that the trip comes to an end for everyone on board. When adults choose to be stupid, it shouldn't spoil the event for hundreds of others. Life in our modern era. I'm left wondering why neither of the two adults became aware of the approaching train? Slow speed, headlight blazing, horn blaring, brakes squealing, and yet they noticed nothing?
Ear buds/headphones in use? Either way, or none, they were trespassing. They chose to not be alert to possibilities. And IMNSHO, were no better than walking down the middle of a busy roadway. I cannot wait for the sucker played jury which will be empaneled for a coming lawsuit. A jury which will be deliberately misled to believe those two had some sort of right to trespass, to not be alert- Attempting to place blame on the real victims, the railroad. Sickening...
Railroad rights of way are not safe for the 'preoccupied'. You either have full attention on what is taking place around you or you will end up dead. This applies to civilians and railroaders.
Likewise driving. Too many times I see a car ahead of me jerking back into their lane. As I pass them carefully, I see their D****D smart phone at the top of the wheel held with the left hand and tapping with the right. There was a folk song 50-60 years ago with the words, "When Will They Ever Learn?"
Just checked the news and the man and woman who were killed were both involved in a street altercation and arrest in the same town a month before. While the press writes stories about mourning of their loss, there's probably more to the history of this pair than is being written.
Thanks Ken. The Kingston Trio performed in Biloxi about twenty years ago for a community concert. They were as wonderful then as I had remembered them from the late 50's and early 60's. I rephrase their words, Where has my youth gone, so long ago.
Doubly tragic as the article mentions that the train was a special run for first responders and their families. As for the history of the deceased, unless it bears directly on the incident it is best left alone.
Geez guys, 2 people died. I'm not saying you have to like them or think what they did was right, but alot of assumptions are being made here about 2 people who are now dead. Even the foolish have value in the eyes of their family and the Lord and speaking ill of the dead is never classy.