When will people learn?

Rob Bye

Senior Member
Yes, an unfortunate lapse in judgement, to be sure. Hopefully, like-minded people will learn from this incident.
 

AC016

Senior Member
Tragic and i feel for his family. With that being said, simple rule: DON'T TRESPASS. The train will always win.
 

donaldjledet

Senior Member
Yes I know all about how people seem to like to challenge trains.
Very costly mistake. the train always wins.
I come from a railroad family since the 1920's.
 

sonicbuffalo_RIP

Senior Member
My son knew him personally. He was an ex-Army Ranger. He was John's platoon leader while they were stationed in Korea. It was a tragedy for sure, and I've read some of the news accounts of what could have caused him to get hit. You'd have to read the article I guess as everyone is being way over judgemental about this here. Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. He had made it big and was devoted to fitness.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
My son knew him personally. He was an ex-Army Ranger. He was John's platoon leader while they were stationed in Korea. It was a tragedy for sure, and I've read some of the news accounts of what could have caused him to get hit. You'd have to read the article I guess as everyone is being way over judgemental about this here. Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. He had made it big and was devoted to fitness.
No offense intended and certainly no judgement on my part... It is, what it is.

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Moab Man

Senior Member
You'd have to read the article I guess as everyone is being way over judgemental about this here.

Understand, I'm in no way trying to pick a fight or create hard feelings. I read the article which is how I came to my conclusion specifically from this part of the story, "They have interviewed witnesses who saw Plitt standing on the track even as the train's horn was blaring, Burbank police Sgt. Scott Meadows said."

I've lost many a buddy on the battlefield and here at home. Unfortunately some of those were stupid deaths and others were good deaths. I only hope that if my decision brings my life to an end it's a good death.

Anyway, I feel for the living left behind.
 

Woodyg3

Senior Member
Contributor
Thanks for the post. I hope publicizing this will make people think before trying something similar in the future. I will say that I don't think "fitness models are all steroid-brawn/photoshop and no brains" is a very true statement. Intelligent people make dumb mistakes, and in this case a tragic one.

 

sonicbuffalo_RIP

Senior Member
The cameras from the train showed Greg was running on the tracks before he was hit. It really is a tragedy. I know that no one on this forum mean any bad feelings....but it shook up my son quite a bit. Greg was an inspiration to all those that served under him in the Army. It's really a shame he had to go before his time. In retrospect, I have to wonder why he was on the tracks myself. It seems he used the train tracks in many of his commercials and videos. I guess he just didn't use his best judgement in what he did.
 

Moab Man

Senior Member
We have people here where I live get killed by trains all the freaking time. It's frequent enough that it's not even news anymore. The trains horn will be screaming and they often times ignore it and head in front of the train. Usually it's trying to beat the horn blaring train across or wearing music headphones.

I can appreciate your son being shook up by this.
 

AC016

Senior Member
The cameras from the train showed Greg was running on the tracks before he was hit. It really is a tragedy. I know that no one on this forum mean any bad feelings....but it shook up my son quite a bit. Greg was an inspiration to all those that served under him in the Army. It's really a shame he had to go before his time. In retrospect, I have to wonder why he was on the tracks myself. It seems he used the train tracks in many of his commercials and videos. I guess he just didn't use his best judgement in what he did.

Completely understand how you and your son feel about this. It is very tragic and a as you said, he was far to young to pass. On the other hand, people on the outside (even people close to the tragedy), need to question the actions of the individual. If no one does, then it is seen as acceptable behavior and no one will learn from the tragedy.
Here in Montreal, a young woman lost both her legs after being run over by a train. How could that happen one asks? Because, she was trespassing and walking through a rail yard. She was taking a shortcut to get to another road, instead of taking the long way around. When the story came out in the news, two camps of people immediately formed: one camp that mollycoddled her and the other camp said sorry, but rebuked her nonetheless. Which camp was i in? The one that rebuked her. Why did i rebuke her? Because, if no one did, she would think that what happened to her was none of her fault. This leads me to another tragedy that occurred in Montreal.
Some years ago, a couple of young boys decided to go inside of a tunnel where freight and passenger trains pass through. Not only were they trespassing, but they were also vandalizing the tunnel with spray paint. Unfortunately for them, a Via train came through the tunnel and hit the lot of them, killing them all. Now, keep these points in mind: they trespassed and they were vandalizing private property. Guess who the parents blamed for their deaths? The train company. I will tell you right now that the family was put straight, real fast by the public.
It about taking responsibility for your own actions and not taking the easy way out and blaming someone else.
Stay away from train tracks and trains. You will not win if one bites you.
 

sonicbuffalo_RIP

Senior Member
Completely understand how you and your son feel about this. It is very tragic and a as you said, he was far to young to pass. On the other hand, people on the outside (even people close to the tragedy), need to question the actions of the individual. If no one does, then it is seen as acceptable behavior and no one will learn from the tragedy.
Here in Montreal, a young woman lost both her legs after being run over by a train. How could that happen one asks? Because, she was trespassing and walking through a rail yard. She was taking a shortcut to get to another road, instead of taking the long way around. When the story came out in the news, two camps of people immediately formed: one camp that mollycoddled her and the other camp said sorry, but rebuked her nonetheless. Which camp was i in? The one that rebuked her. Why did i rebuke her? Because, if no one did, she would think that what happened to her was none of her fault. This leads me to another tragedy that occurred in Montreal.
Some years ago, a couple of young boys decided to go inside of a tunnel where freight and passenger trains pass through. Not only were they trespassing, but they were also vandalizing the tunnel with spray paint. Unfortunately for them, a Via train came through the tunnel and hit the lot of them, killing them all. Now, keep these points in mind: they trespassed and they were vandalizing private property. Guess who the parents blamed for their deaths? The train company. I will tell you right now that the family was put straight, real fast by the public.
It about taking responsibility for your own actions and not taking the easy way out and blaming someone else.
Stay away from train tracks and trains. You will not win if one bites you.

The lesson goes without saying. I'm sure all who read about it and those who knew him realize he was on the edge doing what he was doing.
 

Eyelight

Senior Member
Trains are deceptively quiet if they are at speed. Think about standing on the side as a train approaches and then goes past. It's not real noisy until it''s passing.

They are also deceptively fast moving, they don't swerve and they don't stop.

The average driver or pedestrian drives and walks as if everyone else is watching. And in many cases they are and accidents are avoided, because someone else was watching. Issue with trains is, it doesn't matter how many other people (on or off the train) are watching, they can't do anything.
 
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