[PRCo] Railroad accidents

[Fred Schneider]

I said something the other day in connection with the little girl who  
was hit by a streetcar in Pittsburgh and killed ... the piece in the  
root cards (or raut cards) about how good the fenders work.

Remember my comment about how railroad enginemen don't avoid accidents?

Tonight's Lancaster New Era ... man on motorcycle tried to challenge  
a Norfolk Southern locomotive, proving that both objects could not  
occupy the same space at the same time.  Guess which one lost?

The cyclist was wearing a helmet.  New Holland police officer Mark  
Willwerth said, "I have never seen a helmet damaged that bad."   The  
cyclist went head first into the locomotive's diesel oil tank!

And while the locomotive was parked in New Holland and the accident  
being investigated, a lady fell over the railroad tracks.  I guess  
the tracks jumped up and tripped her?   She had a blood alcohol level  
of 0.289.

Railroads are hazardous.   We need to get rid of them.   Or close all  
the motorcycle dealers and wine and spirits shops.


And Wednesday night's newspaper had a fine candidate for the Darwyn  
awards had not the people been elderly.   They had probably already  
breed.   Seems that Tuesday a storm went through here ... the same  
one that hit Iowa last weekend and Cleveland on Monday.  It knocked  
power out for about 110,000 Philadelphia Electric Company customers,  
mostly in the northeastern suburbs.  So this couple cranks up a  
portable gasoline driven generator, plugs in the refrigerator and  
freezer and goes to bed.   Next morning the food was cold and so was  
the couple.   No one told them that you cannot put the generator in  
the kitchen, close all the windows, pump exhaust into the house all  
night, and expect to live.   They both died of carbon monoxide  
poisoning.