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    Dem Senator (Blumenthal) Nearly Hit By Train During Press Conference About Commuter Safety




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    It doesn't look to me like he would have been hit had he stayed still and not moved....he wasn't standing right on the edge.

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    The irony, can you smell it? Talk about getting hit by the "clue train."
    But this was just a near miss, so I doubt he'll learn anything from it ...

    FTA: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dem-senat...mmuter-safety/

    Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has been waging a campaign demanding safety accountability for the Metro-North railway this week [...] But as he discovered this week, there is also an element of personal responsibility when it comes to commuter train safety. [...]

    Perhaps someone told Blumenthal that no trains would be arriving during the presser, but even so, that yellow line near the edge is there for a reason and he clearly chose to ignore it. If you’re going to send out tweets like this you should probably at least watch where you’re standing on the train platform. [...]

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    To this day I don't understand how you can't hear it coming/feel the vibrations/etc etc.

    But.. that was an Amtrak Acela train. Those things can move. It should have been giving the signal it was coming by the horn sounding - I don't know the rules - but all the amtrak trains and commuter trains do that here, if they are on the tracks closest to the platform, and that includes the acela express trains...

    Just a few weeks ago a guy in NJ died being struck by a train, and he was on the platform... and his body pieces injured a few others.

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    To this day I don't understand how you can't hear it coming/feel the vibrations/etc etc.

    But.. that was an Amtrak Acela train. Those things can move. It should have been giving the signal it was coming by the horn sounding - I don't know the rules - but all the amtrak trains and commuter trains do that here, if they are on the tracks closest to the platform, and that includes the acela express trains...

    Just a few weeks ago a guy in NJ died being struck by a train, and he was on the platform... and his body pieces injured a few others.

    What do you want me to do, to do for you to see you through?
    A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulConventionWV
    A real feminist would have avoided men altogether and found a perfectly good female partner. Because, y'know, all sexual intercourse is actually rape.
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