Almost a Darwin
- A 20-year-old University of Illinois student had her right foot severed in a freak accident early Saturday.
Champaign police Sgt. Dennis Baltzell said the woman and a 20-year-old man, also a UI student, were on a train spray-painting graffiti on a box car when the train moved just before 5 a.m.
They both tried to jump clear of the train but according to Baltzell, the woman didn't jump far enough away and the train ran over her foot.
[...] The woman was taken to Carle Foundation Hospital for surgery, where she was listed in fair condition.Baltzell said she and the man listed home addresses in Chicago.
The words "freak accident" imply some sort of unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally. We'd say that criminal trespass to railroad property along with the physical defacement of the train itself is completely intentional, and any injuries suffered as a result can't really be "unexpected."
Labels: silly people
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
50 Comments:
i like graffiti on the trains. gives me something to look at while i'm stuck by them...
Q. Where do most people get injured by trains?
A. On railroad tracks!
Trains don't usually come chase "victims" down the street, sneak up on them in bathrooms or parks, etc.
Avoid train injuries: stay off the tracks.
rb
"Expect movement at any time, on any track, in any direction."
-- railroad safety rule.
Idiots.
Smear your crap inside your own house where other people won't have to look at it.
Hope the railroad sues for damages.
No sympathy here. You commit a criminal act and sometimes there are consequences. Sometimes they're minor and sometimes they're permanent.
If she hadn't been there, she'd still have both her feet.
What a shame. I guess she'll just become society's burden now...
she is lucky it was only her foot--- i would hate to be the paper car for this one--- tooo many phone calls....
Kind of makes me want to go down to the hot dog place on Clark St. and get a nice foot-long hot dog with all the trimmings. With a few nuts on the side.
My kids have to go Wright College . .
How much was mommy and daddy paying for these assholes to go to the U of I?
Foot or no foot, I hope the railroad signs complaints on these scumbags.
You can take the asshole out of the Ghetto but you can't take the Ghetto out of the asshole. College students? Is this what they study at college. You would think these two asswipes would have something better to do. Her dancing days are over. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Wonder how many trains these two Einstein's have defaced while at "college".
Eileen?
Irene?
Again, fucking media~
Sounds like "Sharia" Law! Use your limbs to commit a crime; the limb is removed,Justice served. What was her major, please don't say art.
Too bad it wasn't her freaking head. Try and run from the po lice now.
Sounds like a good lawsuit against the railroad for failure to secure the tracks. Perhaps the train operator is also liable since he didn't check his rear view mirrors before moving his train.
There is a reason the railroads don't want you trespassing on their property. It's because it's DANGEROUS. The idiots should have known better. No sympathy for them.
The South Side of Chicago spreads its vermin far and wide.
Stupid is as stupid does.
serves her right!!! hope it was worth it sweetheart.
Not a GOCR, fill out five tow reports with cross referencing rd#s
I think I know her, is her first name Ilene?
I guess gimpy should find a new hobby now! If having ur foot severed doesn't teack u a lesson? Not sure what will !
There are probably scumbag attorneys lined up in the waiting room to get at her for the right to sue. Unfortunately in this state she will probably score the ghetto lottery.
Every now and then I like to give you all a chuckle... Heh...heh.........heh.......
Hope the railroad is going to prosecute the two of them for defacing railroad property.
Also hope she has insurance because there is no way in hell the taxpayers should pick up the tab on an "accident" caused because someone was commiting an illegal act.
Hmmm. College "students". I wonder what they were spraying on those cars. Circle with an "A" maybe?
OT: State Bonds in Jeopardy as Tobacco Cash Fades
Get a load of this. It reminds of the same financial future promises games that they played with public pensions.
It's one big ponzi scam based upon lies and false promises. Look over here don't look over there at the consequences of your actions.
Just keep stealing from the future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/business/state-bonds-backed-by-tobacco-payments-in-jeopardy-of-default.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4
Hilarious is the word.
I guess somebody wont make it to the protests come may....awwwwww to bad dumbass hippie. Limpin through life is a bitch aint it. Oh and shes from chicago so im sure she ll sue the railroad for moving the train.
"What a shame. I guess she'll just become society's burden now..."
--5/06/2012 01:35:00 AM
Is everyone supposed to feel guilty> about this?
Some lifes lessons last a lifetime!
"she is lucky it was only her foot---"
--5/06/2012 02:09:00 AM
Off the top of my head -- fully loaded car, quarter-million pounds on eight steel wheels, over 31,000 pounds load per wheel, sitting on a spot the size of a dime where the wheel contacts the rail. Over 31,000 pounds per square inch of pressure.
Cut you in half and keep right on going.
There are roller bearings on the axles today -- very efficient. An engine 10,000 feet back and out of sight and hearing can start a string of cars moving -- sometimes with a tremendous jerk that can throw a trespasser off a car.
We have all heard that tremendous "BOOM!" that echoes for blocks. That is the slack in that train running in or out.
Trainmen used to get badly hurt, even killed, in the cabooses (eliminated ca. 1985). Like being on the end of a whip and someone cracks it. They put padded corners, handgrips, cushion seats with high backs in there to try to keep injuries down.
Many other times, there is little sound at all. It just starts rolling.
Either way -- no warning.
Stay off. Stay clear.
"i like graffiti on the trains. gives me something to look at while i'm stuck by them..."
--5/06/2012 12:11:00 AM
"It's to die for."
Toetic Justice? Footloose? Call a toe truck?
well time for thier parents to seriously rethink their college
education
but a judge will say
it's the train's fault because it shouldnt have been parked there:)
why wasn't there a security guard there?
and btw why didn't you warn them SCC?
it will be everyone elses fault and thier mothers
other then 1. the parents of these kids 2. the knuckleheads them selves
to think this is tommorrows leaders today:)
( Now You Know Why Tigers Eat Thier Young)
well time for thier parents to seriously rethink their college
education
but a judge will say
it's the train's fault because it shouldnt have been parked there:)
why wasn't there a security guard there?
and btw why didn't you warn them SCC?
it will be everyone elses fault and thier mothers
other then 1. the parents of these kids 2. the knuckleheads them selves
to think this is tommorrows leaders today:)
( Now You Know Why Tigers Eat Thier Young)
She list her way, didn't know those rails where for trains not a foot walk!!!
The Karma train had a sideswipe. Actually this happens quite a bit in Champaign. Few yrs ago a drunk student crosssed the tracks behind the PD and lost his legs (both of them) when he was run over. But you have to wonder,,,, rather than dinner and a movie, he says hey lets go out and tag trains? Really?
So I guess crime was "afoot",lol. Pun intended.
009
Peg Leg Peggy really knows how to hop!
When she gets to dancing,it's a scream!
Sounds just like a sewing Machine!
John Entwistle - The Who
"Sounds like a good lawsuit against the railroad for failure to secure the tracks. Perhaps the train operator is also liable since he didn't check his rear view mirrors before moving his train."
--5/06/2012 07:18:00 AM
Never seen a railroad or a freight train, huh? It's OK, we understand. Some people don't get out much.
Ha Ha Ha Ha! I guess Eileen won't be running from the scenes of any CDTP soon.
I dunno what it is, but they seem to be hiding the names of the offenders. They are apparently both from Chicago, and both are U of I students.
Anyway, here's a great comment from a railroad man, in the Champaign paper --
"I have little sympathy here.
"I have worked on trains for the past 5 years, and they're not to be messed with. Regardless of what this era of so-called modern art tells you...graffiti, when done without permission on private property is vandalism and is punishable thereof. Boxcars, locomotives, tank cars, autoracks, intermodal cars, you name it, we own it. If we wanted graffiti on it, the cars wouldn't be painted in the first place. Its a pain for anyone who works as a conductor. Why? Because these cars car data marks, such as capacity, load limit and the car number. When that stuff is painted over, and crews can not see them, it causes a problem and delays the process of getting that car clearance to move on its train. Yes, graffiti is very interesting. That doesn't change the point, its private railroad property, stay off of it. The newer locomotive we run, by itself, weigh 432,000 pounds. That's just one locomotive. The cars weigh anywhere from 50 to 120 tons each. A train can move at anytime, as this girl learned. They don't stop fast, and they're miles long. Especially on the CN through C-Paign. CN runs most manifest freight trains on that line at 10,000 - 14,000 feet long. There is no way a crew will see you back there dangling off the cars with a bleeding foot. If any of you are old enough to remember this, there was a case back in the 70's or 80's when a guy, university student, shortcutted between train cars at this same location. The train moved, his arm was caught in the handrail and that train drug him from Green Street to Tuscola. My grandfather did the honors of walking the IC tracks to try and find a ID, with body parts strewn for miles. He wasn't tagging the train, because we didn't have much of that back then, but he was still on it and was trespassing. Consider these people lucky that they didn't meet the same fate. And if after this, either one is still stupid enough to tag rail cars, they have my pity. See, a train jolts, because the air in the brakes releases one car at a time. So by the time you get to, let's say car #105 on the train, the engines are cranked up pretty good, and when those brake shoes come off that car, its going to jerk ahead pretty hard. Message to parents here, most taggers are between the ages of 12, yes 12, and 25. I highly encourage you to teach them to keep their art off the trains. Because not every railroad police officer is nice about it, and no train will stop for them. Graffiti may be pop culture or whatever, but railroading is a dangerous, dangerous industry. I almost fell off one while working on it, and it changed my outlook on life. Don't find yourself strewn down the tracks like that guy in the 70's did.
"Stay safe."
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/courts-police-and-fire/2012-05-05/womans-foot-injured-train-accident.html
"But you have to wonder,,,, rather than dinner and a movie, he says hey lets go out and tag trains? Really?"
--5/06/2012 03:38:00 PM
Remember the "best and brightest and most promising" college students who got killed spraying s__t on the expressway walls here not too long ago?
Same thing.
poetic justice.. bet she will try to sue now.. claiming the train started to roll without telling all the artist to clear out..
Half-price pedicures!
Is her name Ilene? It is now.
Well, she can do her "perp" walk on crutches, but then that might generate sympathy from the public. But one thing is for damm sure, she'll never climb on or spraypaint another railroad car again. Poetic justice.
Sorry Anonymous but a judge can't award them squat because they were trespassing on railroad property. Yes that narrow strip called the roadbed or right-of-way containing the tracks, crossties, and ballast belongs to the railroad and since her foot was cut-off by the train-car wheel means that she was on railroad property and she has nothing coming but years of hobbling and the CTA driver kneeling his or her bus so this woman poard with her crutches or Hoverround.
Serves her right.Young and dumb.
You fuck with the bull, you get the horns.
"Is everyone supposed to feel guilty> about this?"
I think the commenter you were replying to was being ironical, as were some of the others who got "called down" as being sympathetic to stupidity, when they merely forgot to use the sarcasm font in all the right places.
"Trains don't trespass. People do."--Unknown
"Stay off! Stay away! Stay alive!"--Operation Lifesaver, Inc.
"Ya can't fix stupid."--Ron White
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