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| Thread ID: 109019 | 2010-04-20 21:41:00 | Listen Up Ipod Cyclist Users | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 878686 | 2010-04-22 00:43:00 | That sucks, but it's your own damn fault if you're both tuned out listening to music AND not watching where you're going. You can say that about car drivers as well. How many people here always have the radio or stereo cranked up whilst driving around? One or two of my son's friends have their car stereos so loud you can hear them coming from down the street! :stare: :rolleyes: :( Plenty of cars get hit by trains each year, too, unfortunately. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 878687 | 2010-04-22 00:56:00 | Plenty of cars get hit by trains each year, too, unfortunately. Yes, but in comparison, they have a nice metal box around them. Whereas for the poor woman involved here, it's just metal to flesh. Absolute zero chance of survival. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 878688 | 2010-04-22 01:26:00 | Forget the iPod, a large train = loud noise and vibration, warning bells and barriers. She failed to look left or right before crossing, or to take any other prudent action to preserve her safety. That's just rank stupidity, so no apologies. I feel sorry for those she leaves behind, the train driver she traumatised, and for the people who had to deal with the aftermath, she doesn't have to live with that. Respect doesn't come into it either, she was just plain bloody stupid, or in another world, and paid the ultimate price as do the other clowns who sleep on railway tracks, walk about in a dream, drive through flashing lights and around barriers, or find other creative ways to put themselves in front of large fast-moving objects. Billy |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 878689 | 2010-04-22 01:36:00 | I feel sorry for those she leaves behind, the train driver she traumatised, and for the people who had to deal with the aftermath, she doesn't have to live with that. I agree, train drivers who run people over are going to have much more of a hard time dealing with it than the dead person who isn't going to have to worry about anything. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 878690 | 2010-04-22 01:39:00 | Forget the iPod, a large train = loud noise and vibration, warning bells and barriers . She failed to look left or right before crossing, or to take any other prudent action to preserve her safety . That's just rank stupidity, so no apologies . I feel sorry for those she leaves behind, the train driver she traumatised, and for the people who had to deal with the aftermath, she doesn't have to live with that . Respect doesn't come into it either, she was just plain bloody stupid, or in another world, and paid the ultimate price as do the other clowns who sleep on railway tracks, walk about in a dream, drive through flashing lights and around barriers, or find other creative ways to put themselves in front of large fast-moving objects . Billy Dont forget people who lie down on the road when pissed or car surf on the roof . |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 878691 | 2010-04-22 03:27:00 | I agree, train drivers who run people over are going to have much more of a hard time dealing with it than the dead person who isn't going to have to worry about anything. On the other hand, once the train driver applies the brakes and sounds the horn, there's nothing else they can do. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 878692 | 2010-04-22 05:50:00 | It’s very hard to draw any conclusions in a case like this because we aren’t privy to all the details. I recall a Policeman friend telling me many years ago that I’d be staggered to know how many road accidents are quite deliberate and in short suicide. It used to annoy him the way pressure groups would use the event to further their cause. The conversation came after an acquaintance of both of us hit a bridge abutment at high speed and killed himself. His blood/alcohol reading was off the scale and the teetotallers and anti alcohol lobby made an absolute meal of it. The facts were he was in financial and matrimonial strife and he had drunk a bottle of whisky and quite deliberately slammed his car into the bridge abutment a high speed. May, or may not, be what happened here, but I’m sure the crusaders against iPods and bicycles will have a field day. Maybe someone from the “Anti Alcohol Brigade” will remember seeing her in the local Pub last Christmas and try and score some points. RIP. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 878693 | 2010-04-22 08:43:00 | I'm not anti Ipod or cycles but i do think the 2 don't go together, well actually I am anti Ipod but that's just because I don't like apple. In fact I cycle regularly but never with any sort of device to distract me I even turn my phone off when cycling | gary67 (56) | ||
| 878694 | 2010-04-22 09:12:00 | I'm not anti Ipod or cycles but i do think the 2 don't go together, well actually I am anti Ipod but that's just because I don't like apple. In fact I cycle regularly but never with any sort of device to distract me I even turn my phone off when cycling Do you listen to a radio while driving? If so how is it different? I'm definitely not advocating full volume headphones in, listening. But quiet background music, especially on a long ride 2hrs plus. You go crazy otherwise....damn our over aurally stimulated brains. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 878695 | 2010-04-22 09:20:00 | Do you listen to a radio while driving? If so how is it different? I'm definitely not advocating full volume headphones in, listening. But quiet background music, especially on a long ride 2hrs plus. You go crazy otherwise....damn our over aurally stimulated brains. Only if someone else is driving. I used to ride up to 6-7 hours at a time a few years ago so I know all about long distance riding and I mostly rode alone, I love listening to the sounds all around me |
gary67 (56) | ||
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