I’ve done this as a kid, and since I live near train tracks I’ll likely be doing it with my daughter when she’s older…but not like this!
A Louisiana teenager playing a game with friends on train tracks was killed this weekend when some equipment threw him under one of the cars.
Law enforcement officials tell The Advocate that 17-year-old **DEPARTED** and three friends had been placing coins on train tracks to watch them be crushed early Sunday. **DEPARTED** lay on the ground inches from the passing cars. A ladder hanging off one of the cars caught him, tossing him under the train. He was just south of a Union Pacific rail yard in Livonia, and he died about 1:30 a.m.
INCHES FROM THE CARS??? WTF? Crushing coins is cool, but why do you need to witness it at close-range? Of course, sad to say, bad judgement seems like his MO:
Authorities say **DEPARTED** nearly died two years earlier in a hunting accident when he stood up in the path of a fellow duck hunter. A sheriff’s spokesman called his recovery “close to a miracle.”
Miraculous that he survived those two additional years! Also this shows the irony on focusing on “Gun Death”, he was SHOT, and LIVED! But was killed by a passing train.
H/T Bob
Death: Say, where’s *DEPARTED*? I thought we grabbed him two years ago.
Minion: You wanted to keep him, Sir? Just a sec, I’ll go grab him; won’t take a minute.