boy dies on track at ealing broadway

*shouts to parents*

Um, I'm reading DD's forum and eating cake .

This is so VERY true and all drivers have my sympathy when along the lines and these total R. Soles are about and up to absolutely no good whatsoever.

One October night years ago, just after I passed as a Guard on Brit Rail, I was asked to assist the driver in searching the track for 'something' the driver of the last train travelling in the opposite direction had reported hitting. Within a mile, we found a guy laying beside the track very seriously injured, but still semi-conscious and so lucky to be alive. Unfortunately, he died next morning so the driver and I had to attend his inquest, after which his Mother and Brother thanked us for what we did for him, while his Father said The railway were to blame because the driver should have warned his son he was approaching. To this day, Nobody knows why the guy was on the track and almost a mile from any access other than fields.

the kid who died went to my school. From what i've heard, he was one of those kind of "Gangsters" who think they're untouchable. I hope people learn from this although they probably wont.

Or in his case, "thought he was a gangster".

Has anyone been kind enough to put this homo "sapiens" up for a Darwin award? He does meet the requirements...
www.darwinawards.com

read in the supplement in a paper on Saturday, kid dangled a washing line over the tracks near Stoke on Trent, and was ***very*** lucky to survive. Had to have skin grafts over hands and feet...

Question: WHY?

poor lad complains he can't use his play station - fingers are fused together where the skin 'melted'

Well, who is to blame??

he was 14.

Here's a True Story about two of my ex-classmates:

These Two "artists" climbed onto a Signal Gantry East of Hayes About 3 Years Ago - They were "clever" ( ) artists and (according to the court case afterward) had decided it would be a clever idea to spray the signal lenses black.

So Idiot #1 is leaning over the edge of SN271 while Idiot #2 is looking out for trains, police etc...

1Y82 (WB HEX) Decideds to make an appearance on the scene at 100mph. Driver Blasts his horn, makes Idiot #1 Jump with fright who then subsequently falls onto the OLE and gets catapulted into the canal 50m alongside the line.

After spending 7 weeks in hosptial for major burns and Several Broken Bones He is Discharged and Returns to School

However, The Scary bit of the story is this:

When they came back to their Year 8 Class at School (My School) they were heroes among their friends.

Subsequently Idiot #2 has been arrested for Joyriding arounds Slough at 80mph, and Idiot #1 Was unfortunately killed as a passenger in the same incident.

Painting on things is almost possible to understand, but painting over signals, and other such damage, needs to be treated as nothing less than attempted murder.

I hope idiot2, and the 'hero'-worshippers, have realised why these things are frowned-upon.

There was a case in Doncaster where a teenager had been hanging out of the window of a stolen car (legs inside, everything else outside) which collided with a bus shelter. He was removed from the gene pool, although he was probably in the shallow end anyway.

It could theoretically be even more than that, taking into account trains on other lines and/or people in nearby buildings/roads and so on...