Here's an Idea - Stay off the Tracks
Never in the history of rail travel has a train been cited for being where it wasn't supposed to be. Trespassers, on the other hand......:
- Two people were killed when they were hit by aMetratrain on the border between Little Village and Lawndale this evening, authorities said.
The female and male were struck by the train near 21st Street and Homan Avenue about 4:50 p.m. and pronounced dead on the scene, said Police News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney. A woman at the scene who identified herself as the sister of both victims said they had been looking for scrap metal on the tracks at the time they were hit by the train.
The two regularly searched for scrap metal on the railroad embankment, the woman said.
Darwin strikes again.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
64 Comments:
So very correct. Stay off the tracks. Its against the law to be trespassers on railroad tracks. Trains can not stop on a dime, they need blocks and blocks to stop, tracks win and the Engineer goes home with the sight and sound in his mind forever.
Those who actually own the tracks (METRA just operates over them) are getting cleaner and cleaner about what they leave laying around. Safety, person could trip and fall. Hardly a loose spike. Rules.
Iron don't pay much at all anyway. Ask the guy in the 2/3rds empty F250, been out all night and he ain't hardly makin gas money.
2 dead lookin for pop cans? 40 cents/lb, more than you can carry get you $5-6 -- if they're clean and crushed down and the yard knows you.
Oh well...
They were good greenies, helping stop global warming by recyling.
sacrificial lambs-wrong death lawsuits to come railroad was negligent in securing the perimeter from trespassers
Scrap metal? WTF?
Just as well. Two more LINK cards can be cancelled out.
Seriously, how much scrap metal is laying around on the railroad tracks? Especially, since the family says they regularly looked along the tracks for scrap metal. It's not like the area was a well traveled area for trucks or other type equipment, cars, people, etc to be dropping scrap metal there.
Searching for scrap on crack.
Crack kills
I used to be sympathetic towards people who get hit by trains, but that was a long, long time ago. I mean, it's not as if trains just creep up on you while you're out and about and run people over. They're pretty inconfuckingspicuous.
Be careful with anything involving railroads and tracks.
R.I.P. Officer Benjamin Perez
10th District
E.O.W. 18 September 2002
They searched for scrap metal along the tracks? I'd be willing to bet that they were more likely removing spikes and tie plates from the tracks, creating a much more dangerous situation for commuters than the few cents they received for the metal.
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
>>>Anonymous said...
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
8/08/2014 03:42:00 AM<<<
You are not only not a cop you are probably not from Chicago.
With LINK Cards nobody has to do anything except not work a job to put food on the table. Dope, booze, sneakers certainly but food no.
Be careful with anything involving railroads and tracks.
R.I.P. Officer Benjamin Perez
10th District
E.O.W. 18 September 2002
Wow, reading the post yesterday about the tenth anniversary of the passing of P.O. Michael Gordon, and now seeing this comment about P.O. Benjamin Perez, I can't believe how fast the time has gone. We will never forget though.
Train vs. Anything--- Train wins
Two fewer democrats draining the system.
I am puzzled...why didn't they just get their SNAP card and LINK card like everybody else...walking up & down tracks is too much like hard work.
Shouldn't the deceased be classified as terrorists?
What right do they have to trot across our railways...possibly looking to steal copper from along the tracks and potentially cause a derailment?
Anonymous said...
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
8/08/2014 03:42:00 AM
The Darin award? You mean the dude from the 60's show Bewitched? Which Darin, first or second?
Darwin...
When the family sues...and they will..
These two were not scrapping , they were speculating in aluminum futures.
Two of my favorite words I learned on SCC:
Pussification
inconfuckingspicuous
Meh.
This just in......the family of the two people struck and killed by a Metra train near 21st street and Homan Ave have just filed a lawsuit against Metra and the manufacturer of the locomotive. The lawsuit states that Metra was negligent in securing the area around the scene of the accident. The manufacturer of the locomotive is being sued because they did not have a bilingual horn installed on the engine.
Remember---trains are bigger and faster than you.
At least they weren't out robbing and stealing. The guy was legally blind and the woman died trying to save him. C'mon SCC, you can do better than this.
"They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table."
Highly doubtful. If they wanted to put food on the table, they could have gotten regular jobs. Sounds more like they were up to no-good, maybe to steal again and make good their escape along the railroad right of way. They didn't belong up there in the first place. I'm tired of my hard earned taxpayer money being handed over to idiots like this. Good riddance.
have you seen the video of the two women tresspassers who got hit by an Indiana Rail Coal train last week in Bloomington Indiana?
They laid on the tracks and the train went right over them. No injuries. They left and were caught later.
You do not beat a train except with another train.
Their last find was a rather large piece of metal..... they found the Holy Grail of metal in fact..... or should I say it found them.
Sounds like the sister fell asleep, aka passed out, on lookout duty.
Anonymous said...
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
8/08/2014 03:42:00 AM
Government provides free food and a place to live and a cell phone. It doesn't provide liquor and drugs.
"Regularly searched for scrap on railroad tracks..." hmmmm.
Casing box cars to burglarize after midnight is more likely.
( Thump....Thump )
Blooey, just a grease spot on the L & N.
" O' Brother Where Art Thou " –
Delmar: "You work for the railroad, do you, Grampa?"
Blind Seer on Handcar: "I work for no man."
Pete: "Got a name, do you?"
Blind Seer on Handcar: "I have no name."
Everett: "Well, that right there may be the reason you've had dificulty finding gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce..."
Channel 7 identified the male who was killed as Barry Huddleston. You old school 10th District guys know Barry wasn't up on those tracks looking for scrap metal. Back in the late 70's & early 80's, this guy was a one man crime wave stealing 3-5 cars a day.
He then became a "cat" burglar with a fair amount of success, before returning to the joint.
Family starts with the "they look for scrap metal" story. Someone must have gotten into their ear, because now all I'm reading is that the tracks are a shortcut that everyone uses, and it's impossible to keep the kids away from the area. I'm sure they'll give something to the family to leave them alone, when they really shouldn't give them a cent unless there are some new mitigating circumstances.
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
8/08/2014 03:42:00 AM
And a little crack in their pipe.
Retired
The story looks to have been rewritten and cleaned up now. No more "sister," and not a word about "trespassing," "scrap metal," etc. Just "taking a short cut that the whole neighborhood uses."
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Scrap metal, as in parts from the tracks.
Desperate people do desperate things. They needed to put bread on the table in this soup line economy for the last six years. Section 8, LINK, obamacare, cell phones and utility assistance just don’t pay the bills anymore. People just don’t get paid with assistance like they use to. Poor people expect more and should not have to resort to the depression-era human survival technique of scrapping. No hope of a job in sight with all the deceptive politcal rhetoric. With higher property taxes on the horizon and the increased municipal phone tax, it no wonder why they took extreme risks to keep their bills paid. Heck, it even takes over an hour standing in line to receive assistance from the food pantry at 23 & Sawyer. You wait in line and it seems like they don’t speak your language. Abject poverty in a democrat run city on display. Poor people have better things to do with their time. The breadlines are eerily similar and modeled after those in Eastern Europe while under the oppressive communist ruling political class in the 80’s. You know, if you aint working you don’t get no vacation time and no vacation pay. Time for real Hope. Its time for a real Change. All aboard, next stop is more D.C./Springfield/ City Hall compassion in action for this worsening worst economy since the great depression.
BNSF owns the track and operates the train under contract with METRA.
Just saw the pictures on the Tribune website.
Something really sad about this one. It looks like they were a poor family, but they were a family. Living together and taking care of their older generation unlike other houses in that area.
Seems like all things considered they are good people that had a bad thing happen to their family.
Being poor doesn't not equal being a shithead.
Screw these bust outs. Nobody cared about me despite the darn good shock I received setting up my vintage Lionel 675 Pennsylvania Railroad with Baldwin wheels and 2422W tender on my dining room table last December. Nobody cared about me! No scrap metal alongside the tracks, either; only a few empty Lienenkugel bottles!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
8/08/2014 03:42:00 AM
Not sure what the Darin award is, but it might be for naïve people that believe anything they read in the paper.
Anonymous said...
I used to be sympathetic towards people who get hit by trains, but that was a long, long time ago. I mean, it's not as if trains just creep up on you while you're out and about and run people over. They're pretty inconfuckingspicuous.
8/08/2014 01:06:00 AM
Inconspicuous is the opposite of obvious. As in trains are "pretty f*ckingobvious."
hey, you fuck with the bull, you get the horns,.....you might not HEAR the fucking horns, but, you'll get em though. think of yourself as a baseball and the train as a bat being swung by Greg Luzinski trying to roof one at old Comiskey. too stupid to live.
I can't understand for the life of me why the poor keep reproducing like they do. There is no end in sight for the underclass in our society so why keep reproducing like rabbits?
ssc they might had been cystal meth addicts a lot of them will go to the train tracks to get high , and figure out of sight out of mind, well as that former 025 gallows reported would always say
;oh well there aint no pity in donkey city;
Railroad rule -- "Expect movement on any track, at any time, in any direction."
When necessarily walking across tracks, always step OVER the rail, not on it. Rails can be slippery -- pitch forward, hit your head on the other rail, and be laying there unconscious when a train comes -- it's happened.
Stay away from the turnouts, the track switches -- you can get your foot caught, and some are power-operated from some control center 1000 miles away today. No warning.
Stealing copper? Not much up there anymore to take. A lot of the old copper-line stuff up in the air on the poles is gone, replaced by buried fiber-optics cables for signalling and communications.
Just a few thoughts. Like they say, look, listen, live.
Be careful with anything involving railroads and tracks.
R.I.P. Officer Benjamin Perez
10th District
E.O.W. 18 September 2002.
So true, Rest IN Eternal Peace brother. Nearly 14 years ago. Ben was a good man and family man. Terrible lose.
They searched for scrap metal along the tracks? I'd be willing to bet that they were more likely removing spikes and tie plates from the tracks, creating a much more dangerous situation for commuters than the few cents they received for the metal. EXACTLY!!!
If there was a freight train stopped they may have been trying to pull off part of the brake system on the rail cars. Locked up a few dummies doing this in the past.
Legally blind does not mean blind. I'm legally blind wIthout my glasses, but that doesn't mean I can't see a freaking train coming.
ymous said...
>>>Anonymous said...
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
8/08/2014 03:42:00 AM<<<
You are not only not a cop you are probably not from Chicago.
With LINK Cards nobody has to do anything except not work a job to put food on the table. Dope, booze, sneakers certainly but food no.
8/08/2014 05:01:00
I probably have more time on than you. Tired of a**hole PO's with no compassion. If you're undocumented you're not eligible for LINK. Save the remarks about being illegal. 100 years ago the irish, italians the poles all had there share of illegals.
My guess is they were trying to steal the whole train...and LOST!
Bottom line: if you're not on the tracks, you won't be hit by the train. Whatever they were up there for, they shouldn't have been there.
>>>With LINK Cards nobody has to do anything except not work a job to put food on the table. Dope, booze, sneakers certainly but food no.
8/08/2014 05:01:00
I probably have more time on than you. Tired of a**hole PO's with no compassion. If you're undocumented you're not eligible for LINK. Save the remarks about being illegal. 100 years ago the irish, italians the poles all had there share of illegals.
8/08/2014 08:22:00 PM<<<
I should have added neighborhood food pantries and organizations that I contribute to such as The Salvation Army and Catholic Charities and when I started drawing a CPD paycheck James Rochford was Superintendent. Many times I have actually split what I had for lunch with someone if they asked for something to eat or I bought lost kids a Happy Meal.
Besides those two victims my real compassion right now is for the poor bastards who had to pick up their shredded scattered remains and the poor engineer who is going to be replaying that scene over and over again in his dreams for the rest of his life.
I grew-up in south Lawndale and you could
not pay me and my playmates to even climb
onto the Burlington embankment because
those trains were too damm fast and they
appeared out of nowhere without warning.
These were grown folks who should have
known better and I hope the relatives
don't plan a wrongful death suit, actually BNSF/METRA should sue them.
Anonymous said...
They may get the Darin award but they were simply trying to put food on the table.
8/08/2014 03:42:00 AM
The Darin award? You mean the dude from the 60's show Bewitched? Which Darin, first or second?
8/08/2014 07:13:00 AM
I thought the exact same thing....reading this blog has resulted in me thinking like a cop...which is not a bad thing!
Just a citizen.
And should you find yourself on the railroad tracks, looking for a badguy or whatever, be very, very aware. Those Metra trains that have the engine at the rear of the train are surprisingly quiet, especially when the ground is snow covered.
rb
At least they weren't out robbing and stealing. The guy was legally blind and the woman died trying to save him. C'mon SCC, you can do better than this.
Where do most people get hit by trains?
ON THE TRACKS!!!
Stay off of the tracks, or at least have the sense to look for trains.
I probably have more time on than you. Tired of a**hole PO's with no compassion. If you're undocumented you're not eligible for LINK. Save the remarks about being illegal. 100 years ago the irish, italians the poles all had there share of illegals.
8/08/2014 08:22:00 PM
But no LINK and no government Nanny state, no free breakfast and lunch at school, free bus ride, rent vouchers, guv'ment cheese, free cell phones and on and on.
Anonymous said...
I probably have more time on than you. Tired of a**hole PO's with no compassion. If you're undocumented you're not eligible for LINK. Save the remarks about being illegal. 100 years ago the irish, italians the poles all had there share of illegals.
8/08/2014 08:22:00 PM
But no LINK and no government Nanny state, no free breakfast and lunch at school, free bus ride, rent vouchers, guv'ment cheese, free cell phones and on and on.
8/09/2014 03:46:00 AM
Back then it was called "Relief." Gubmint cheese,bread,and potatoes have been around for a long time.
Anonymous said...
I can't understand for the life of me why the poor keep reproducing like they do. There is no end in sight for the underclass in our society so why keep reproducing like rabbits?
8/08/2014 04:06:00 PM
You bloody elitist bastard!
...thee train are surprisingly quiet, especially when the ground is snow covered.
Question: WTF does that have to do with what happened a few days ago?
You must be a follower of that lemonhead T. Skilling weather forecasts.
I thought the train had its turn signal on...
...thee train are surprisingly quiet, especially when the ground is snow covered.
Question: WTF does that have to do with what happened a few days ago?
You must be a follower of that lemonhead T. Skilling weather forecasts.
8/09/2014 10:17:00 AM
rb there said "when."
He's right.
Train movin north, say, and wind blowin south does it too. Any season. Nearly lost a couple a boot heels sliding down an embankment when I was once surprised.
"Expect movement on any track, at any time, in any direction."
Look, listen, live. For starters.
Tom Skilling kicks butt, by the way.
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