iPods and running equals bad. This is heartbreaking.

Horrible tragedy but this is hilarious:

insensitiveahole wrote:

This is what was happening around her: "HHHOOOOOOONNNNNNNKKKKK!!!! HHHHHHOOOOONNNNNNKKKKKK!!!"

This is what she heard:

"SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE, I CAN BREATHE FOR THE FIRST TIME"

Rarintogo wrote:

Hear's the song she WASN'T listening to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKLHhTNLoqQ

haha, awesome.

Shouda stuck to lane 1. There she would only have to think about runners crushing her.

blkj wrote:

ygds wrote:

Actually, no, he is alive which means you don't know what a Darwin award is.

No, his stupidity just hasn't caught up with him yet. And way to defend someone who makes a joke out of someone else's misfortune.

Almost every joke is based out of someone else's misfortune. I believe there's nothing in the world you shouldn't be able to joke about.

It's common for some to spend a bit of time during a training run running on train tracks, even without headphones.

Those of you from BOSTON who go to Lincoln, MA/Concord, MA to run on the trails by Waldon Pond know that there are train tracks and sometimes runners run on them/run along them. IT IS A BAD IDEA NO MATTER WHAT - iPod or no iPod. There are trains that come through there (commuter rails and who knows what else) and who knows how loud they are going to be and if/when they are EVER going to sound a HORN.

So I urge runners/joggers/whoever...PLEASE STAY OFF TRAIN TRACKS AT ALL TIMES!!!!

luv2run wrote:

senseless wrote:

Girl dies while running along the tracks. Doesn't hear oncoming passenger train approaching.

Be safe out there folks.

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Rowe-teen-struck--killed-by-train-

While running along active train tracks is a poor decision, I am curious about how it is that she did not hear it if the engineer sounded the horn. Those things are loud.

Also, the story does not say it was an iPod, just a music device.

I've had a couple close encounters with trains- used to take a shortcut down an access road that was right next to tracks, and we would get the train to blow the horn at us. Its not just a noise, it rattles your lung when it is close to you. You feel the horn blowing, no way she didn't hear it, unless she was just completely gone in her own world.

WAY to many people get hit by trains. EVERY SINGLE engineer with at least one year of experience who works for the Long Island Train Company has been involved in at least one fatal collision. That stat is kind of old but it still holds true, it really is a problem

A former teammate of mine always used to say that if you run with an iPod you will be struck by lightning.

Apparently he was wrong

On a related note. http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/article_2cba248f-f50e-53f4-8934-de8cbce70fa7.html

This seems like a suicide to me. No one runs on train tracks, come on. You can't even run on them. One of my friends' fathers had his car "stall" on the train tracks when we were kids. He died, too.

laughingostrich wrote:

I always put in one of the earbuds when I listen to anything while running or biking. That way you can still hear what is around you.

I would say that your ability to react to the impending encounter with a car, train, dog, mugger, etc. is still impaired even with only one earbud. Maybe it's only a fraction of a second or so. Could that matter? It sure could.

We used to do long runs on train tracks back in high school. It's fun and you aren't in any danger provided you aren't retarded.

It's easy to think that a loud train whistle is drowned out by music headphones. She probably did hear something out of the ordinary in that song, but thought little of it. And I'm sure the whistle gradually entered, sneaking into the music. Oh, and statistically, suicidal women do not chose a violent method like this. And why would you want to be remembered as getting hit by running on the train tracks? This was not a suicide.

Very sad.

Can you imagine being that train engineer?

Seriously, can they not make trains that can stop? I mean, we put a man on the moon for Pete's sake. We have a freaking Hadron Collider.

gbgurt wrote:

EVERY SINGLE engineer with at least one year of experience who works for the Long Island Train Company has been involved in at least one fatal collision. That stat is kind of old but it still holds true, it really is a problem

Bet you can't back that stat up, especially the EVERY SINGLE (emphasis yours) part.

Do you know how much a train weighs? Me neither, but its a lot.

laughingostrich wrote:

Do you know how much a train weighs? Me neither, but its a lot.

I know man, but do you know how hard it is to make protons collide or whatever the hell finding the God Particle contains. I mean, this is hard shit involving crazy feats of physics. Much harder than stopping a 1,000 ton train.

Arghf wrote:

laughingostrich wrote:

Do you know how much a train weighs? Me neither, but its a lot.

I know man, but do you know how hard it is to make protons collide or whatever the hell finding the God Particle contains. I mean, this is hard shit involving crazy feats of physics. Much harder than stopping a 1,000 ton train.

Havent you ever seen Polar Express?