Girls Tanning On Tracks Struck By Train

[Stophovr6]

Good grief....:doh:

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/16414128/detail.html

LEBANON, Maine -- Authorities say two teenage girls apparently sunbathing on a railroad trestle were struck and seriously injured by a freight train in Lebanon, Maine, on the New Hampshire border.

Police Chief Mark McGowan in Milton, N.H., says the engineer sounded the horn and tried to stop but the train struck the 13- and 14-year-old girls late Wednesday morning. McGowan tells Foster's Daily Democrat the girls were sunning themselves on the tracks and may have fallen asleep.

Lebanon Fire Chief Skip Wood said both girls suffered amuptation injuries. The newspaper says one of the girls lost a leg and the other will likely lose a foot.

[Bliz]

Good grief....:doh:

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/16414128/detail.html

LEBANON, Maine -- Authorities say two teenage girls apparently sunbathing on a railroad trestle were struck and seriously injured by a freight train in Lebanon, Maine, on the New Hampshire border.

Police Chief Mark McGowan in Milton, N.H., says the engineer sounded the horn and tried to stop but the train struck the 13- and 14-year-old girls late Wednesday morning. McGowan tells Foster's Daily Democrat the girls were sunning themselves on the tracks and may have fallen asleep.

Lebanon Fire Chief Skip Wood said both girls suffered amuptation injuries. The newspaper says one of the girls lost a leg and the other will likely lose a foot.

Amazing. :dunce:

I smell a lawsuit. Train company should have known that railroad trestles would be attractive sunbathing spots to children who don't know any better.

[Koolblue13]

That sucks. The rest of their lives they will have to explain how they lost those parts and why.

I hope they didn't get sun burn as well, that is painful stuff.

[dockeryfan]

Dumb is dumb

[SkinsBry]

Atleast their nubs will be tan.

[stwasm]

Darwin Awards Committee, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[SkinsOrlando]

I blame Bush

[Gary Clark Fan]

Dumb is dumb

is dumber

[rincewind]

The newspaper is the Daily Democrat? I wonder if it has a political lean? :laugh:

[youngestson]

Amazing. :dunce:

I smell a lawsuit. Train company should have known that railroad trestles would be attractive sunbathing spots to children who don't know any better.

Sadly enough you're right. Those two kids will get some heavy cash.

[Stophovr6]

Sadly enough you're right. Those two kids will get some heavy cash.

**** that. If they sue and get anything out of it, I'm suing them for making America dumber.

I think the Railroad company should sue them for slowing down their train.

[Forehead]

Sadly enough you're right. Those two kids will get some heavy cash.

I don't know, I could actually see them losing if they try to pursue this. At least, I would hope they would lose. Stupidity shouldn't be rewarded.

[Dan T.]

My dermatologist was right. Tanning IS dangerous.

[Stophovr6]

This made me think of an IRC quote I saw the other day:

"The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"

[RedlightG20]

*Singing*

Runaway train, never coming back

Lost my legs on a one-way track

ok, ok... that was tasteless :doh:

[ntotoro]

Brunell's fault.

[Bliz]

Sadly enough you're right. Those two kids will get some heavy cash.

I was only kidding. I would be shocked if they got anything, unless they can prove some important safety mechanism wasn't functioning.

Each state has different laws about what you can and can't recover in a tort action when you are at least partially at fault, which would play a big role in that as well.

[Dan T.]

I was only kidding. I would be shocked if they got anything, unless they can prove some important safety mechanism wasn't functioning.

Each state has different laws about what you can and can't recover in a tort action when you are at least partially at fault, which would play a big role in that as well.

Interestingly, a landmark Supreme Court Case, Erie vs. Tompkins, involving issues of Federal vs. State common and commercial law, involved a man walking along railroad tracks. He was struck by an object protruding from an Erie Railroad train, which flung him down, and the train rolled over his arm, severing it. He sued in Federal Court in New York, the corporate home of the Erie railroad, because Pennsylvania law made it much tougher for a railroad tresspasser, as he was, to claim liability.

[Get Pissed]

I hope they didn't get sun burn as well, that is painful stuff.

Unless they got sunburn on the areas that were amputated, then that is okay.

[Fletch_Lives59]

I heard they were reading Al Saunders playbook..........

[Gracelander]

Ever see a lebanese girl in a bathing suit, most of them could stop a train by looking at it. This one must have been hot

[jrockster21]

Amazing. :dunce:

I smell a lawsuit. Train company should have known that railroad trestles would be attractive sunbathing spots to children who don't know any better.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

*Singing*

Runaway train, never coming back

Lost my legs on a one-way track

ok, ok... that was tasteless :doh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Mad Mike]

"The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"

Now THAT is funny.

I'm all for removing labels from the obvious things. Lets see if we can pass a bill to make this happen.

[“Misdirection”]

I hate cliches, buuuuutttt.

Useless w/o pics.

[HogNose]

Survival of the Fittest. :doh: