A bunch of climate idiots decided it would be a supergenius idea to play chicken with a train. Hint: The train always wins. It’s called momentum. Look it up sometime.
This is what happens when you teach people “social justice” rather than basic physics.
Compounding the stupidity was the fact that they were trying to shut down shipment of coal to a power plant in Bow, New Hampshire, where the temperature is supposed to hit 6°F tomorrow. There’s nothing that convinces ordinary people of the justness of your cause quite like forcing them to freeze to death.
As a public service to any cretinous idiots protesters who might be inclined to pull a similar stunt, I offer this IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP in handy Tweet format:
Important safety tip.
You ready for this one?
You might want to write this one down. It’s really important.
Got a pen? 🖊
Ready?
Here goes:
DON’T STAND IN FRONT OF A MOVING TRAIN!!!!!!
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Thank you! pic.twitter.com/aRwupB88MA
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) December 17, 2019
That is all…
I know that it’s not “real” country, but this song is appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XNLT4ythMY
Coal trains can be amongst the heaviest in the USA, at up to 40,000 tons. They take 5 miles to stop, in the best of conditions. By the time the engineer can see you standing on the tracks, he won’t be able to stop, and on many railroads, he’s trained to NOT stop, because there will be nothing he can do, and the site of whatever part of the trespasser that remains on the locomotive’s pilot (what they now call what used to be known as the “cow catcher”) would just traumatize him. Finally, trespassing on railroad property is a federal offense.