lol Ah I'm going to hell for laughing at that....
But seriously, how loud was he playing the music? I mean even at the loudest setting you'd hear a train horn being blown, especially if it's right behind you. Hell, you'd FEEL it. And who walks along train tracks anymore, this ain't Stand By Me. Was dangerous then, is dangerous now. The whole situation was easily preventable on his part. I mean even if train companies erected a fence all along the outside of the tracks, people would still jump it and walk the tracks. I get it's a shortcut buy don't have to walk directly ON THE ******** TRACKS to take it. Walk in the gravel around the tracks, closer to where it meets dirt so you can't get 'surprise' hit by a damn train. And srsly if you get 'surprise' hit by a train it's your fault. Trains are slow, they are loud, they are huge and not hard to spot, and they have plenty of warnings at crossings. Only way you get hit by a train is if you purposefully get in it's way or willfully do something so obliviously stupid that would you get in it's way. It's not like they offroad it and hunt people down to hit 'em. You literally have to place yourself in harms way in the case of getting hit by a train, except in cases of the train derailing, which is rare as ********, and managing to do so at just the right time and place so as to hit you, which doesn't even have betting odds cuz it's that ******** rare. Just...ugh, this gives me a headache.
Lessons to be learned from this:
1) don't walk around so plugged into devices that you lose track of what is going on around you. Keep an earbud out, don't walk and talk (cuz some folks can't handle this, it overloads the system and they walk into cars and s**t cuz they don't have attention spans big enough to handle talking and paying attention to where they are going), a little detachment is okay but don't zone out to the point that you don't know where you are going and what's going on around you.
2) Don't walk on train tracks. Period. If you gotta travel in the same direction as the train, the farther away from the tracks you are the better. And they clear some pretty wide swaths for train tracks to go through so you have no excuse (and don't give me that 'but what about crossing the bridge?' bullshit. Go find the foot traffic bridge and stop being a dumbass).
3) Weigh the swiftness of the shortcut against the danger of the shortcut before taking it. If it presents any kind of reasonable danger (such as, I dunno, ******** TRAINS), do not take that shortcut. Srsly, the time you shave off taking the shortcut home won't mean s**t if you are DEAD.
4) If for any reason you may possibly be a dumbass (age, hormones, ego, whatever), err on the side of caution and take the proven safe route. Your good ideas aren't good. Accept this. Move on. Do the cautious thing. You can't enjoy life if you are dead, and you sure as hell can't cure yourself of being a dumbass. Trust the tried and true, eschew the imminent death for you.
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