Month: April 2013

Passenger Train Comes Face To Face With Freighter Train On Same Track

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DailyMail: The terrifying moment in which a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freighter was only narrowly avoided, has been captured on camera, preserving the memory of the lucky escape forever for those involved. The spine-tingling incident occurred in Ontario, Canada where a full speed VIA train carrying commuters between Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto, met a stationary freight train in its path. Footage captured by a nearby spectator, shows the engineer of the passenger train jumping out of the locomotive cab in a bid to save his own life before the inevitable crash.

 

Don’t train conductors have the same ‘going down with the boat’ policy as ship captains? Guess not. Bailing on the train when you’re responsible for all those people in the back seems like a pretty pussy way to handle this situation but when you’re going nose to nose with a freighter train then it might be another story so I dunno. Could make for a good ‘Would You Rather’ on Thursday…

 

Man Is Saved Last Second After Trying To Jump In Front Of Train By Colombian Cop

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Is this as big of a problem everywhere else than it is in NYC? Every other week I feel like someone is flinging themselves on the subway tracks here. Out of all the ways you could kill yourself why would you jump in front of a train pulling into a station? The trains aren’t moving at top speed and there’s a chance it won’t even kill you. I would be so pissed if I was trying to kill myself and just got my legs steamrolled. If things were bad enough before, NOW you have even more reason to kill yourself. Here are my top 5 worst ways of offing yourself:

5) Jumping off a building – I’m terrified of heights as it is and the fact that I could accidentally land on someone on the ground is pretty unfair of me.

4) Cutting down the river – I have no problem with the sight of blood but slitting my wrists kinda seems painful and the fact that I have to sit there and watch myself bleed out sounds boring.

3) Jumping in front of a train – See above.

2) Setting yourself on fire – Why would anyone want to torture themselves like this? You literally live most of the time you’re burning and going through the worst pain ever.

1) Diving in a wood chipper – I know this sounds crazy but I heard a story a little while back of a guy who took his wallet out of his pocket and nose dived into one of these bad boys. I only hope it was a quick death for his sake.

 

Would You Rather…

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Would you rather…

Be a permanent high school student along with all your friends for your entire life (which means getting up early in the morning, homework/exams, but having weekends/summers off)

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OR

Have a full time job that pays $3 million, only gets 3 weeks vacation a year, and you work 6 days a week 8am – 8pm for the rest of your life (you cannot get a raise or promotion)?

Greedy Business Partners

 

Tuesday’s ‘Why I’m Broke’ Product

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Now this is the kind of thing that renders people broke. Yea if I were Richie fuckin’ Rich, were able to fit my ass in the bumper car, and lived in something other than a closet of an apartment in NYC I’d buy the shit outta this thing. Look at the fun those little bastards are having! But for a price tag of $15,372.28 I’m pretty sure I’ll buy a real life car and call it a day. But I’m curious, if you had $15,500 sitting around, would you buy this? BUY HERE