For your review. How not to succeed at Situational awareness: (Someone help me embed the video player please 
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http://www.youtube.com/v/D8fasGcAi6Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1
Holy Sh*t! That was a close one.
If he was supposed to pay attention surely the âStateâ would have informed him. 
âyoohoo!â
That made me gasp. Holly crap that was close.
whooooa :eek:
i donât get how people can be so non-chalant around train tracks.
Stupid people are everywhereâŚ
My butthole puckered.:eek:
My first instinct wouldâve been to run over, grab that dumbass by his shirt and drag him away from the tracks, not yell âyoohooâ!
no SHIT! way to look out for your buddy, BF!
If I was that guy the first thing Iâd be doing is going and getting some new underwear. Couple inches farther and heâd a been red mist in the wind.
Wow!!!:eek:
In the Maritime Industry, we would call that a ânear missâ. We would then have a safety meeting explaining that while thankfully the gentleman was safe, had he not been so lucky, instead of having this meeting we would be picking his pieces up and wiping his splatters off the camera lens.
HahahaâŚI like the doofy look he gave the camera right afterwards. Apparently Darwin missed this one.
I spend some time on a college campusâŚso believe it or not, thatâs not the stupidest thing Iâve ever seen.
I have personally grabbed a young woman by the waist and lifted her out of the way of a bus. She was busy texting and did not notice she was stepping into a busy street with a bus coming right at her. Thankfully all that was crushed was the cell phone she dropped when I yanked her out of the way. A few seconds earlier as I saw what was about to happen I distinctly remember thinking that I didnât really have the stomach to see a pretty young blonde mangled right in front of my eyes. That campus sees at least a couple of pedestrians hit every year, usually with at least one fatality. A female softball player was hit recently as she stepped into traffic without looking. She narrowly avoided permanent brain damage.
There are train tracks on the campus that bisects itâŚand Iâve seen students attempt to crawl through standing or stopped trains. There is a grain silo along those tracks and the train stops periodically to fill a car, and then moves to put the next car in position, etc. Obviously there is no way for anyone standing at the tracks to know when the train is going to moveâŚand itâs a miracle no one (to my knowledge, at least) has been killed by it.
A few areas of the campus are prone to flooding when we get heavy rain. A couple of years ago when a tropical storm went through these areas flooded on campus and at some of the student housing surrounding campus. A few students decided it would be fun to try a drunken white-water rafting adventure in the flood waters with a hastily constructed âboatâ. This resulted, of course, in a student who drowned.
âŚand all of that is to say nothing about the more routine failures to engage IQ in daily life, like the young woman who accepted a couple of rides from a sketchy looking old dude who always happened to be driving by when she was getting out of class. After two non-eventful rides, to her great surprise, he tried to kidnap and rape her on the third. The stories of individuals who do not lock (or even SHUT) their doors and then awake to find someone in their dwelling are legion, as are the stories of parties that turn into a nightmare. Some individual held an open door party last year and the subsequent events led to a murder as two dudes who werenât even from the area got into a tussle and one pulled a gun.
The train video is great, but Iâm a guy who sees at least one person narrowly avoid fatal disaster by the thinnest margin every week. That whole phrase about God looking after fools and little children has some merit, in my opinion.
This happens to railroad photographers in the US very frequently, particularly when steam locomotives make rare social appearances.
It brings some very⌠Interesting individuals out trackside who rarely use good judgment in the name of photography.
I hope the shot they get is worth the risk.
Soooo close to going SPLAT! Yoohooo!
Are you talking about going under or going between cars? Growing up in Iowa we did the latter constantly. Really isnât that dangerous to climb onto a car and move between them and hop off, even if it decides to advance one car up you get a bit of warning. Iâve even been on the train when the movement finally reached the car I was on. There is a sudden jerk but you know itâs coming and you simply hang on if you canât get off in time.
I believe in Creation not Evolution, but âsurvival of the fittestâ has some merit. The guy in the vid appeared as if he was unaware of his near-death experience.