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2019-12-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

N.H.-Bound Coal Train Kept Rolling, Despite Activists On The Tracks

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Posted by Beavis 2019-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Toot Too!

Posted by newc 2019-12-19 01:03|| 2019-12-19 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Darwin frowns.
Mebbe nex time?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-19 01:12|| 2019-12-19 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 With the train about 50 feet away, the group ran off the track.

Wussies.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-19 01:53|| 2019-12-19 01:53|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Back in the late 80s, a group of protesters tried to stop what they thought was a weapons train headed into the Trident submarine base on Puget Sound. Confident in their righteousness, they laid down on the tracks knowing that the train would have to stop.

Narrator: "It didn't stop."

The snowflakes had not done their homework - had they done so, they would have known that the crews would run down their sainted grandmothers if they had to, but the train ain't stopping. One guy lost both legs, a couple more were injured - and then the lead engineer on the train sued the guy who lost his legs, claiming that he suffered mental anguish when the idiot wouldn't get out of the way of a blankety-blanking train.

Interestingly, that was the last instance of anyone trying to stop a weapons train.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-12-19 03:50|| 2019-12-19 03:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The snowflakes had not done their homework

In particular train's stopping distance?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-19 03:51|| 2019-12-19 03:51|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 The snowflakes had not done their homework

In particular train's stopping distance?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-19 03:51

...That and the fact that the train (and OTR transport) crews are taught and trained to NOT stop under any circumstances.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-12-19 05:22|| 2019-12-19 05:22|| Front Page Top

#7 said she felt "anxious" standing on the tracks. "But I feel way more anxious about the climate crisis

Sums up the new religion quite nicely.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-19 07:17|| 2019-12-19 07:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Perplexing isn't it. They insist upon humans being the the problem. They are human. Their solution should have been to stay on the tracks. Sort of a wishy-washy religion, belief without commitment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-19 07:40|| 2019-12-19 07:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Train kept a rollin...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-19 09:01|| 2019-12-19 09:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Momentum is conservative in nature. It adamantly resists changes because of modern political whims.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-12-19 14:49|| 2019-12-19 14:49|| Front Page Top

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