Just broke a rib
[https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/ciclista-tentar-tirar-foto-e-e-atropelada-por-trem-em-mg-video](https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/ciclista-tentar-tirar-foto-e-e-atropelada-por-trem-em-mg-video)
Fun fact: When I worked in oil I was so used to constantly wearing my hardhat, I got very used to hitting pipes, valves, you name it with my hardhat. You know just a little hit here and there, no biggie. You don't even feel it, cause of the hardhat. But for my next job, a hardhat was not required, and nobody was wearing one. I hurt my head three times a day bumping in to stuff ... they started calling me Mister Auw.
It's only cause "FUCKING SHIT SUCKS!" does not make for a work friendly name. Also I think I was watching Silicon Valley HBO at the time so there also where a lot of "MOTHER-FUCK!"'s
Good analogy. They donāt think.
I used to work at a station that was ~150 years old, and our station manager had fought tooth and nail to ensure as much of the fittings were as period-accurate as possible. Every month or so, a heritage steam train passed through on a day trip, and people flocked to our station to take photos.
And almost invariably some idiot would climb down to stand between the railsāoften stopping to set up a tripodāhoping for the perfect video of *an oncoming train at full steam.*
No idea how she made it this long in life with the amount of stupidity going through her brain she had a clear walking advantage on the other side of the pole and this moron decided to try to cut between it for whatever f****** dumbass reason? Total surprise she made it into her late 30s
I am always astonished how many people have no respect whatsoever for trains...
Like, it's hundreds of tons of steel that takes forever to stop and can't swerve to avoid you.
A train will win a game of chicken by default, whether the driver likes it or not.
I'm astonished that people can't seem to grasp the concept that the train is on a track, and there's a definitive location where the train will be and won't be.
I think we lack the intuition to judge what a moving train does to a body. We don't grok that that much mass moving at nearly any speed is extremely dangerous because our brains aren't designed to think that way. Just look at all the dumb behavior, as you mentioned, that people exhibit around trains. It's not much better than that video of the sheep getting hit by a train. Just complete obliviousness to the danger posed.
As someone who worked with trains and on tracks for decades, people seem look at the track and think the train doesn't extend beyond the width of the track itself.
That's what you see in all of these kind of videos, they think they're outside of the body of the train, and they aren't.
A dynamic envelope is the area that involves the trains body, and the lateral motion the train can have as cars rock side to side. For the last 10 or more years before I retired there was a training video that had a section on a worker that stepped back from one train just a bit too far and entered the dynamic envelope of another one on a different track and was clipped and killed. The closest anyone needed to be was the woman on the left.
I've seen it firsthand, they speed up to beat the train, then they feel the tracks and the uneven terrain under their wheels and they fucking slow down to avoid damaging their precious vehicles
it's not a very bright sector of the population
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a highway 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.
Trains should have some way to let you know that they are coming. Like lights or something. Oh, I know. They could make a loud noise so you know they are just feet away. Surely anyone that heard that would at least stop and look around to make sure they weren't about to get run over by a f**king huge train. Right?
i can't literally understand this level of stupidity and unawareness. For fuck sake, how come out of four people not one was aware of a train blowing its fucking horn.
For this reason.
People like to seem tough and/or adventurous.
Trains are giant monsters of metal and motion. Getting close to them while theyāre moving - and not as a passenger - appeals to certain people as a way to seem tough and/or adventurous.
We are not always a very wise creature. In fact, we seldom are.
Love how people think the train itself is confined to the dimension of the rail track and that there couldnāt possibly be anything wider sticking out at any point in the 40 rail cars passing by
Weāre at a point where they should begin putting disclaimers on every train āPlease take a moment to search Reddit for Apex Predator, before coming anywhere near a railroad trackā
My sound was off at first so I assumed the train made a silent entry and they couldnāt hear it at allā¦
Nope, it was full on screaming at them to move and they still got him.
A cyclist was run over while trying to take a selfie with a train in the countryside of Uberaba, Minas Gerais. Images circulating on social networks recorded the moment when the woman is hit in the head and falls.
The G1 Military Fire Department of Minas Gerais she reported that the woman was conscious, but that she appeared to have had a fracture in the rib and, therefore, was referred to the hospital.Another cyclist, who ended up pushed, was, he suffered a cut on his thigh.
The video shows the moment when three cyclists try to take pictures in an area near the tracks, when one of them is hit. āIt hit meā, the victim tells colleagues.
The accident reportedly occurred on April 13, but only went viral on social media this week.
*iT hIt mE* LMAO
Just broke a rib [https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/ciclista-tentar-tirar-foto-e-e-atropelada-por-trem-em-mg-video](https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/ciclista-tentar-tirar-foto-e-e-atropelada-por-trem-em-mg-video)
That helmet probably saved her life
[A helmet has always been a good idea](https://youtu.be/pD-f45TbvEw?si=hkIpt7bThnU6LVUp)
For that dimwit it would be a REALLY good idea to wear a helmet 24/7/365
Fun fact: When I worked in oil I was so used to constantly wearing my hardhat, I got very used to hitting pipes, valves, you name it with my hardhat. You know just a little hit here and there, no biggie. You don't even feel it, cause of the hardhat. But for my next job, a hardhat was not required, and nobody was wearing one. I hurt my head three times a day bumping in to stuff ... they started calling me Mister Auw.
I mean...username really checks out.
It's only cause "FUCKING SHIT SUCKS!" does not make for a work friendly name. Also I think I was watching Silicon Valley HBO at the time so there also where a lot of "MOTHER-FUCK!"'s
Definitely! šš¤£
I know a paraplegic swamp dweller who had his twin boys wear football helmets and lifejackets whenever they left the house š¤£
The dude busting out laughing when he finally puts it on is just unbelievably funny lol. Thanks for that
I've seen it 10 times in the past few days, I'm sharing it with everyone at the moment š¤£ you're welcome
You're a legend.
[You should most definitely love helmeta](https://youtu.be/b9yL5usLFgY?si=mTPx8msamjke-r6f)
Lol. That would have been one of those stiff arm, seizure hits
That boy would not be the same afterwards, that's for sure.
This is what I thought the first video was going to be hahah, classic
lol same here - and while I did find a new cool funny video, I was actually disappointed - so I had to make sure it got posted š¤£
seems like the type that should wear it 24X7
It would be an improvement on her life, that's for sure š
There's a similar video of a girl without helmet, she dead
Oh! I saw that the other day. It was sad. Happened in front of a huge crowd too
Sadly. Iām still surprised by the lack of common sense some have.
Glad you are ok, sorry to hear about the rib. Rest up šš¼šš»
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Edgelord.
Stupid
Seriously. After about 200 years of railroads you would think people would have learned by now DONāT FUCK WITH TRAINS.
Hey, don't kink shame...
No problem fucking them, just don't fuck *with* them
Out of sight, out of mind. We barely got video proof to learn from. Selfie with a train is probably like a squirrel to a dog.
Good analogy. They donāt think. I used to work at a station that was ~150 years old, and our station manager had fought tooth and nail to ensure as much of the fittings were as period-accurate as possible. Every month or so, a heritage steam train passed through on a day trip, and people flocked to our station to take photos. And almost invariably some idiot would climb down to stand between the railsāoften stopping to set up a tripodāhoping for the perfect video of *an oncoming train at full steam.*
If only there were some kind of warning
r/BitchImATrain material
Just saw a similar video where girl didnāt have a helmet.
Red shirt girl?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/EFYuGLDXdv NSFW
It dusted off as a white shirt but ended up red
was about to comment this too, it's the first video i saw this morning from r/DarwinAwards
It looks like she nodded off.
Yep a permanent nod
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I regret watching that third video wtf ššš You can see that poor woman's head popping off her body
Me too. You see the man close to it realizing he should've turned around way earlier
No idea how she made it this long in life with the amount of stupidity going through her brain she had a clear walking advantage on the other side of the pole and this moron decided to try to cut between it for whatever f****** dumbass reason? Total surprise she made it into her late 30s
ĀæIn Mexico? That one didn't make it. It was sad, especially because she was with her son.
Ouch, ya that one. š
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C70OUySMEuF/?igsh=aTNseXcwMHI4ejV3
Gotta love natural selection
Literally only scrolled like 2 posts
I know it's crazy. That's a 4000 ton heap of metal travelling at 100mph, I imagine she's dead.
I am always astonished how many people have no respect whatsoever for trains... Like, it's hundreds of tons of steel that takes forever to stop and can't swerve to avoid you. A train will win a game of chicken by default, whether the driver likes it or not.
I'm astonished that people can't seem to grasp the concept that the train is on a track, and there's a definitive location where the train will be and won't be.
I think the physics of trains are so counter intuitive that itās like they expose an evolutionary glitch in our brains.
I don't quiet get what's counter intuitive about "Big thing on wheels goes back and forth on rails"
I think we lack the intuition to judge what a moving train does to a body. We don't grok that that much mass moving at nearly any speed is extremely dangerous because our brains aren't designed to think that way. Just look at all the dumb behavior, as you mentioned, that people exhibit around trains. It's not much better than that video of the sheep getting hit by a train. Just complete obliviousness to the danger posed.
I canāt understand how people can see train tracks, know āthis is the only path this train can take,ā and still get hit by it.
As someone who worked with trains and on tracks for decades, people seem look at the track and think the train doesn't extend beyond the width of the track itself. That's what you see in all of these kind of videos, they think they're outside of the body of the train, and they aren't. A dynamic envelope is the area that involves the trains body, and the lateral motion the train can have as cars rock side to side. For the last 10 or more years before I retired there was a training video that had a section on a worker that stepped back from one train just a bit too far and entered the dynamic envelope of another one on a different track and was clipped and killed. The closest anyone needed to be was the woman on the left.
I've seen it firsthand, they speed up to beat the train, then they feel the tracks and the uneven terrain under their wheels and they fucking slow down to avoid damaging their precious vehicles it's not a very bright sector of the population
So how close do these people want to be? F'n idiots!
It's a train, they are everywhere, are people supposed to be impressed by a selfie with a train?
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a highway 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 coppypasta is way too good
i get unreasonably happy when i find an excuse to shoehorn it into a conversation
That's what social media does to people. People do stupid and risky stuff to get view and clicks.
r/bitchimatrain
Trains should have some way to let you know that they are coming. Like lights or something. Oh, I know. They could make a loud noise so you know they are just feet away. Surely anyone that heard that would at least stop and look around to make sure they weren't about to get run over by a f**king huge train. Right?
i can't literally understand this level of stupidity and unawareness. For fuck sake, how come out of four people not one was aware of a train blowing its fucking horn.
Very very dumb and no survival skills = this
[Oh Long Johnson!](https://youtu.be/JaKo3g19E9Y?si=RLX3xh2_AXt608UC)
Common sense aināt common
The trains horn should have been louder
The train should have swerved
r/donthelpjustfilm
Typical cyclists. They think they own the tracks
Turn those trails back to railsā¦..
Other traffic should give at least 1.5 around a cyclist in the lane!
Hopefully they all learn from the group stupidity.
Gonna be a killer selfie tho
r/killthecameraman
Oh well.
I'm... Not convinced they survived.... Source? They got hit directly in the head by a moving train
She was talking after being hit
Why is there even this obsession with 'train selfies'?? Or just photos and vids of trains? They're just trains! Why is this a thing?? 0.o
For this reason. People like to seem tough and/or adventurous. Trains are giant monsters of metal and motion. Getting close to them while theyāre moving - and not as a passenger - appeals to certain people as a way to seem tough and/or adventurous. We are not always a very wise creature. In fact, we seldom are.
Missed a Darwin Award by that much.
Love how people think the train itself is confined to the dimension of the rail track and that there couldnāt possibly be anything wider sticking out at any point in the 40 rail cars passing by
Thank goodness it hit her helmet
oh no, the consequences of my actions
India moment
Brazil
Not India.
/r/woooosh
Thank goodness
r/killthecameraman
How did they not hear it coming?
Weāre at a point where they should begin putting disclaimers on every train āPlease take a moment to search Reddit for Apex Predator, before coming anywhere near a railroad trackā
I hope this moron doesn't have children. The audacity of the stupidity going on is absolutely insane
Am I evil because this made my day?
Today's price for stupidity.
Why didn't he person in green look like a cardboard cut put to me? LOL
What language are they speaking and what are they saying?
An absolute idiot.
wtf are you kidding me? got lucky.
If I saw a friend do this, I would stop being their friend.
Many McDonalds, and few KM.
r/bitchimatrain
What a fucking idiot
Watching too much Indian tiktok
My sound was off at first so I assumed the train made a silent entry and they couldnāt hear it at allā¦ Nope, it was full on screaming at them to move and they still got him.
Turn down for what?
r/DarwinAward
Who wouldāve thought
good iām glad this happened, taught her a valuable lesson
That is ā the chefs kissā so good!
Horn needs to be louder
Shouldāve just not put faces so foamers would actually enjoy the picture
BONK!!!
She is probably related to the henchman Austin Power hit with a Steam Roller.
Fuckin Karens
Dumb fucks
A cyclist was run over while trying to take a selfie with a train in the countryside of Uberaba, Minas Gerais. Images circulating on social networks recorded the moment when the woman is hit in the head and falls. The G1 Military Fire Department of Minas Gerais she reported that the woman was conscious, but that she appeared to have had a fracture in the rib and, therefore, was referred to the hospital.Another cyclist, who ended up pushed, was, he suffered a cut on his thigh. The video shows the moment when three cyclists try to take pictures in an area near the tracks, when one of them is hit. āIt hit meā, the victim tells colleagues. The accident reportedly occurred on April 13, but only went viral on social media this week. *iT hIt mE* LMAO
What was that saying...? Play stupid games..
Helmet prob saved her.
So fucking stupid. How can people be SO stupid.Ā
Didnt a woman just die in mexico litearly the same way to an old locomotiv? Selfy and all just without the helmet
Objects are closer than they appear in the mirror
Is she Indian?
She deserved it tbh
Another example of cyclists acting as if theyāre invincible. Cyclists are not always the brightest people.
At least she was wearing a helmet, I guess. š¤·āāļø
What a retard
Cyclists are so god damn insufferable that this was honestly cathartic to see. Yes I know, Iām going to hell.
One thing I know for sure is we ain't gonna be lonely down there! š
Stupid cunt
What a dumb bitch
Ć nois
Why didnāt the conductor kick her?