http://news.yahoo.com/4-dead-17-hurt-train-hits-texas-vets-005400083.html
HOW DO YOU HIT A PARADE WITH A FUCKING TRAIN?
oh god.
how....
i mean it says the lights and crossing gates were functioning.
and yet the truck with the float just drove over....
what?
What is wrong with Texas? Is there something in the water? Trains are not subtle!
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on November 16, 2012, 03:38:02 AM
What is wrong with Texas? Is there something in the water? Trains are not subtle!
Bastards are like 8000 ton ninjas.
The horns, man. They were sounding the horns, and unless Texas train horns are different, I don't know how they can be missed.
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on November 16, 2012, 03:48:32 AM
The horns, man. They were sounding the horns, and unless Texas train horns are different, I don't know how they can be missed.
I AIN'T STOPPIN' FER NO LIBRUL TRAIN.
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2012, 03:50:10 AM
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on November 16, 2012, 03:48:32 AM
The horns, man. They were sounding the horns, and unless Texas train horns are different, I don't know how they can be missed.
I AIN'T STOPPIN' FER NO LIBRUL TRAIN.
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:lulz: Yes.
one report says they may have been stuck on the track, but another says people were trying to get off the trailer while it was still rolling...
they're sitting on lawn chairs on a flatbed trailer ... i'm guessing the people that didn't make it off were perhaps older vets?
Roger, i gotta admit. i couldn't stifle a laugh when i read the story, but that last post was kinda cold when we don't know anything about the people or circumstances, no?
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on November 16, 2012, 04:18:41 AM
one report says they may have been stuck on the track, but another says people were trying to get off the trailer while it was still rolling...
they're sitting on lawn chairs on a flatbed trailer ... i'm guessing the people that didn't make it off were perhaps older vets?
Roger, i gotta admit. i couldn't stifle a laugh when i read the story, but that last post was kinda cold when we don't know anything about the people or circumstances, no?
Yeah, but any asshole can laugh when things are, you know,
funny. It takes a special kind of asshole to laugh when horrible shit happens. I'm that kind of asshole, and I hope you are, too.
Thing is, you and Stella and about a dozen other people, I'm okay with. I really hate the rest of Texas, especially recently (for about 3 new reasons). I languished in Temple for 3 YEARS. You have to cut me some slack, if I hear Texas and think:
HOLD MUH BEER AND WATCH THIS.
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:redneck2:
Besides, that isn't a PATCH on how I view Arizona.
Even deafness is no excuse. MIDLAND IS FUCKING FLAT. YOU CAN SEE SHIT MILES AWAY.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2012, 04:21:59 AM
I languished in Temple for 3 YEARS.
I've always wondered why you hate Texas so much. And that's a pretty damn good reason to hate it.
My hat's off to you for being able to survive so long down there. I'd call that part of the state a shit hole. But that would be an insult to shit holes.
Quote from: The Rust-Red Rooster on November 16, 2012, 07:11:32 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2012, 04:21:59 AM
I languished in Temple for 3 YEARS.
I've always wondered why you hate Texas so much. And that's a pretty damn good reason to hate it.
My hat's off to you for being able to survive so long down there. I'd call that part of the state a shit hole. But that would be an insult to shit holes.
It's in that plain of cruelty where you realize you're getting too far away from Austin but you've still got a fuckload of Texas to go through before you're out, and the shortest route "out" takes you to fucking Oklahoma.
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on November 16, 2012, 10:34:41 AM
Quote from: The Rust-Red Rooster on November 16, 2012, 07:11:32 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2012, 04:21:59 AM
I languished in Temple for 3 YEARS.
I've always wondered why you hate Texas so much. And that's a pretty damn good reason to hate it.
My hat's off to you for being able to survive so long down there. I'd call that part of the state a shit hole. But that would be an insult to shit holes.
It's in that plain of cruelty where you realize you're getting too far away from Austin but you've still got a fuckload of Texas to go through before you're out, and the shortest route "out" takes you to fucking Oklahoma.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
"Finally! I made it across the Red Riv-... Ah shit..."
Well, shit.
article i saw just now says the first truck was across the tracks, second truck was on the tracks but couldn't move because the first was in the way, the police sirens accompanying the parade drowned out the sound of the train, there were some people in wheelchairs on the trucks. some people died getting others off the truck...
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on November 16, 2012, 04:50:01 PM
article i saw just now says the first truck was across the tracks, second truck was on the tracks but couldn't move because the first was in the way, the police sirens accompanying the parade drowned out the sound of the train, there were some people in wheelchairs on the trucks. some people died getting others off the truck...
It's only slapstick, Ippie. The 3 Stooges for the Post-American Century. Those vets, the older ones (WWII, Korea, Vietnam), I bet they got the joke.
But I have to ask, who arranges a parade that not only goes over railroad tracks, but nobody bothers to check the fucking train schedule, or tell the railroad schedulers?
So, yeah. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk, American style.
Patriots.
that's who.
why do you have freedom?
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on November 16, 2012, 05:35:49 PM
why do you have freedom?
Um, because we won the war of 1812?
According to this article:
http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_5e978264-2f83-11e2-a111-0019bb2963f4.html
This is the intersection where it happened:
https://maps.google.com/maps/myplaces?ll=31.985626,-102.09354&spn=0.001346,0.002064&ctz=360&t=h&z=20
Absolutely nothing blocking anyone's view of anything.
"A float carrying wounded veterans...."
So some of these poor bastards probably survived some sick shit in Vetnam or WWII only to die on a fucking parade float.
That just goes to show you how fucking sick and indifferent this existence can be.
It'd be like some poor sap who survived heart surgery, turned their life around only to die choking on a hunk of a carrot.
I believe they were mostly wounded Iraq and Afghanistan vets who had just gotten back.
God clearly is one sick fuck.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on November 17, 2012, 09:55:14 PMThat just goes to show you how fucking sick and indifferent this existence can be.
Ain't it great? :horrormirth:
Quote from: Emo Howard on November 17, 2012, 09:45:15 PM
According to this article:
http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_5e978264-2f83-11e2-a111-0019bb2963f4.html
This is the intersection where it happened:
https://maps.google.com/maps/myplaces?ll=31.985626,-102.09354&spn=0.001346,0.002064&ctz=360&t=h&z=20
Absolutely nothing blocking anyone's view of anything.
If you zoom out, it's completely straight, clear and unimpeded for MILES. Granted, if the train was going 60 miles per hour that would only give them a few minutes to cross once it was visible, but even so, basic train safety, the kind I learned when I was 5 or so, dictates that you never, EVER enter a situation where you can't cross the tracks completely within one minute. Stop, look, listen, cross and get out of the way. Cross the tracks one car at a time to make sure nobody gets stopped on the tracks. The driver failed to heed fundamental train crossing safety and I suspect it was some kind of "it's OK to make an exception because it's a PARADE" mentality.
I'll just leave this here.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/06/1221712/-Follow-the-Money-Rick-Perry-Abortion-Edition
Oh, and for your facebooking pleasure :lulz:
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Imma go share it on his page. :D
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Has to be the semi-driver's error.
I was always told to make certain you had clearance on the far side of the tracks prior to crossing.
This is a really sad level of stupid.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/08/19355690-perry-wont-seek-re-election-as-tx-governor?lite
Rick "Not Gay" Perry now has 18 months to go buck wild.
And he's thinking of running for president again.
PLEASE, GOD, LET HIM GET THE NOMINATION.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 09, 2013, 08:29:11 PM
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/08/19355690-perry-wont-seek-re-election-as-tx-governor?lite
Rick "Not Gay" Perry now has 18 months to go buck wild.
And he's thinking of running for president again.
PLEASE, GOD, LET HIM GET THE NOMINATION.
Yeah, after the snoozeworthy "contest" between Obama and Romney to decide who gets the coveted title of Most Likely to Drone Audience into a Coma, anything featuring Rick Perry would surely be an upgrade.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2012, 04:21:59 AM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on November 16, 2012, 04:18:41 AM
one report says they may have been stuck on the track, but another says people were trying to get off the trailer while it was still rolling...
they're sitting on lawn chairs on a flatbed trailer ... i'm guessing the people that didn't make it off were perhaps older vets?
Roger, i gotta admit. i couldn't stifle a laugh when i read the story, but that last post was kinda cold when we don't know anything about the people or circumstances, no?
Yeah, but any asshole can laugh when things are, you know, funny. It takes a special kind of asshole to laugh when horrible shit happens. I'm that kind of asshole, and I hope you are, too.
Thing is, you and Stella and about a dozen other people, I'm okay with. I really hate the rest of Texas, especially recently (for about 3 new reasons). I languished in Temple for 3 YEARS. You have to cut me some slack, if I hear Texas and think:
HOLD MUH BEER AND WATCH THIS.
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:redneck2:
You're not alone. I imagined the HFT's holding hands channeling positive qi to bring back the dead in the center of it all.
Quote from: V3X on July 09, 2013, 08:54:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 09, 2013, 08:29:11 PM
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/08/19355690-perry-wont-seek-re-election-as-tx-governor?lite
Rick "Not Gay" Perry now has 18 months to go buck wild.
And he's thinking of running for president again.
PLEASE, GOD, LET HIM GET THE NOMINATION.
Yeah, after the snoozeworthy "contest" between Obama and Romney to decide who gets the coveted title of Most Likely to Drone Audience into a Coma, anything featuring Rick Perry would surely be an upgrade.
Mostly, I just want to watch him make an ass of himself running against Hillary Clinton.
It will be like watching a brain-damaged boxer sparring with a ventilation fan.
Quote from: /b/earman on July 09, 2013, 08:54:46 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 16, 2012, 04:21:59 AM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on November 16, 2012, 04:18:41 AM
one report says they may have been stuck on the track, but another says people were trying to get off the trailer while it was still rolling...
they're sitting on lawn chairs on a flatbed trailer ... i'm guessing the people that didn't make it off were perhaps older vets?
Roger, i gotta admit. i couldn't stifle a laugh when i read the story, but that last post was kinda cold when we don't know anything about the people or circumstances, no?
Yeah, but any asshole can laugh when things are, you know, funny. It takes a special kind of asshole to laugh when horrible shit happens. I'm that kind of asshole, and I hope you are, too.
Thing is, you and Stella and about a dozen other people, I'm okay with. I really hate the rest of Texas, especially recently (for about 3 new reasons). I languished in Temple for 3 YEARS. You have to cut me some slack, if I hear Texas and think:
HOLD MUH BEER AND WATCH THIS.
\
:redneck2:
You're not alone. I imagined the HFT's holding hands channeling positive qi to bring back the dead in the center of it all.
Well, that's the problem with Texas. 90% of the state is either religious whackjobs, or crazy hippies.
And then there's 8% normal people.
And 2% confidence men, like Derrick Broze.