This woman is barking mad!

[Admiral Huddy]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Woman-walks-with-shopping-on-main-London-to-Bristol-train-line/Media-Gallery/200906415315271?lpos=UK_News_News_in_Picture_UK_Ne ws_Region_3&lid=GALLERY_15315271_Woman_walks_with_shopping_on_ main_London_to_Bristol_train_line

Every week we have delays through people walking on the line. It's incredible to think that people do this without any thought to their own safety let alone every one else.

[Desmo]

Some people are just utterly dense...or they just don't care at all.

[Goose]

It's mad isn't it. I'm a member of a cycle group, and we spoke to a guy from National Rail about a crossing that is fairly dangerous.

Us: "It takes a person 6 seconds to cross this crossing"
NR: "Well, it takes the train 5 seconds from the point you first see it to get to the crossing"
Us: :shocked:

I have a few enginners in my family, and they've seen what can happen.

[diddums100]

It's mad isn't it. I'm a member of a cycle group, and we spoke to a guy from National Rail about a crossing that is fairly dangerous.

Us: "It takes a person 6 seconds to cross this crossing"
NR: "Well, it takes the train 5 seconds from the point you first see it to get to the crossing"
Us: :shocked:

I have a few enginners in my family, and they've seen what can happen.

6 seconds to cross a train track on a bike? really?

B@

[Goose]

6 seconds to cross a train track on a bike? really?

B@
Yeap. You can't ride over it, and the proximty of the fencing and the style of the gates means you end up messing around with the bike with part of it still on the track.

Edit: Well, a bit quicker for us but the point really shouldn't be "only use this crossing if you are speedy". Imagine crossing it with a family, or a trailer, or with a disabled person....

[Pheebs]

To get to a pub nearby, you can go down a track to a train line crossing in the middle of the field (tis a proper place to cross... not just a random gap in the fence to slip through).

We walked down there the other day and I tell you what, it's not half scary as **** when a train comes past you at full pelt. We were well back waiting for it to go before we crossed but even so. Scared the living daylights out of me! Never really experienced a train going past at full speed. After that you can understand that no one would stand a hope in hell if they got hit. You'd be a goner in milliseconds.

I'm a bit of a nervous person though when it comes to train crossing. I think Picky and Briggy can vouch for this - sometimes when we drive to pick up Briggy for a night out we go on a route where you have to drive over the tracks. I tell everyone to look either way and then whizz over them in a panic ;D

[cheets]

She is probably from a country where that is the norm.

[Kitten]

like these idiots

we_MmdNOAJE

I found some youtube vids last week where the kids are running on and hiding under the trains! Apparently it's a big craze. Madness!

[Greenlizard0]

like these idiots

[y outube]we_MmdNOAJE[/y outube]

I found some youtube vids last week where the kids are running on and hiding under the trains! Apparently it's a big craze. Madness!

:/

Hopefully Darwin's will sort them out.

[Justsomebloke]

I found some youtube vids last week where the kids are running on and hiding under the trains! Apparently it's a big craze. Madness!


Seen loads of vids of this some with young girls doing it. :cool:
I know it's complete madness but I'd have done it when Young, If I had the balls that is, Can't say unless I tried, Awesome buzz though I bet, Imagine the rush as the train goes over you with the ground shaking etc, Kin Awesome. Would beat any ride that's for sure.

[NokkonWud]

Some people are just stupid beyond belief.