There is a new game in town, and I’m going to predict this now: someone is definitely going to get killed doing this. Kids are jumping from one train platform to the other at single-track stations. Its insane.
Obviously one could easily break a leg, get electrocuted, killed by a passing train - or all three [...]

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This post is cathartic.
First some background. My apologies if you’ve heard this one before.
Sometime last year, I got hammered and passed out on the last train out of Grand Central as soon as I took my seat. Next thing I knew (an hour later), the conductor was yelling my station name loudly in my ear.
I [...]

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OK, first I want to apologize that I have never heard of the town of Southeast, NY.
Actually, maybe I have heard of this town. For all I know, I have heard of it many times. How would I even know? Because the name of the town is freaking ‘Southeast’!!!
I want to take this opportunity to [...]

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Last Wednesday a 10-lb piece of oblong metal, which may have been a piece of bracing used when pouring concrete, fell 25 stories from the Trump Parc Tower construction site in downtown Stamford, pierced the roof of a Crystal Rock water delivery truck, and struck its driver in the arm.
The driver was treated for minor [...]

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What is with truckers seeming to lose consciousness at the wheel while their truck keeps going full speed and crashes?
Chicago has been having a really bad week as it is - last week 9 people were killed in a dozen shootings around the city. Warm weather + unemployment + bad economy is a recipe for [...]

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60-year-old ex-cop John Clifford has been arrested EIGHT times on the Long Island Railroad for harassing other passengers. Just recently, he was let off again, acting as his own lawyer in successfully being cleared of two misdemeanor offenses.
Whats more, in 1994 he was arrested for (admittedly) striking a fellow female passenger in the head - [...]

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In Canton, Mass tuesday afternoon a CSX Freight car loaded with lumber rolled off a side track onto a main line for 2 miles, colliding with a stopped MBTA Commuter train with over 300 passengers on board.

Dozens of passengers were sent to local hospitals, most with minor injuries, none life-threatening.
The commuter train was stopped by [...]

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