Weer'd World

This is something I can’t relate to:

A 42-year-old woman was fatally struck by a light-rail train while walking across the tracks, listening to music on her phone.

…**DEPARTED** crossed the tracks around 10:15am Sunday morning, even though there were flashing red warning lights, a flashing sign and bells telling of the coming Green Line train.

Now I take the train to work, and I’m listening to podcasts or the radio for my commute. Still I only put one ear bud in just so I can hear the world around me. Still this practice started at my last job when I’d be wandering around the lab doing work and somebody would come up to me and want to talk. Back when I’d have buds in both ears I’d have to stop the recording, pull out the ear buds and ask them to start over. With just one, I hear them from start to finish and can have a conversation while I stop the recording.

Still I never listened to music loud enough that I couldn’t hear the outside world, and trains aren’t quiet. That doesn’t factor in the whole “look both ways before crossing the street” and looking for the flashing lights at the crossing.

Still I guess we need to ban trains….

H/T Bob

A sad and sick one…

An Oklahoma mother was arrested on a charge of child abuse murder after police say her 3-year-old foster son died from a severe head injury.

…The couple’s foster son **DEPARTED** was rushed to a hospital August 27 suffering from blunt force trauma to the head. Despite the doctors’ efforts, the toddler’s condition gradually worsened and he passed away from his injures five days later.

…According to court filings, **FOSTER MOTHER** told police the 3-year-old was jumping on the couch when he fell and hit his head on a table.

However, investigators found that the foster mother’s account was not consistent with the severity of the boy’s injuries.

Hey, but only “Gun Death” counts, so lighten up!

H/T Bob

You hear this constantly from the antis. We just need to license gun owners and register guns like cars! Think about that!

A 15-year-old girl without a driver’s license took her father’s SUV without permission before crashing the vehicle, killing three teenage boys, authorities have said.

The unidentified girl, who may have been speeding, is now facing possible charges in the crash,

So we have a registered vehicle, we have licensing for all LEGAL operators of motor vehicles, and we probably have a vehicle that was locked up before it was, let’s not mince words, stolen.

So now three young men are dead. Where do we go from here? Maybe the father should have kept his keys locked up? Savor the irony of that statement!

Of course where we go from here, in the eyes of the antis, is note that only “Gun Death” counts, so these boys can be ignored.

Don’t you feel better now?

H/T Bob

A Sick One:

Florida father charged with hurling his 5-year-old daughter from a Tampa Bay bridge just after midnight Thursday had previously been arrested for battery against the girl’s mother and sought a domestic violence injunction against her, police revealed. That request was declined last month.

Really sick! And what kind of monster would do this?

**REDACTED** was previously arrested on two separate battery domestic violence charges in 2010 and 2013 against the mother of his daughter, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. In 2013, he was also arrested for battery against his own mother.

That kind…good thing he didn’t have a gun, otherwise we might be dealing with a “Gun Death”.

H/T Wallphone