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Posted: 4/19/2014 5:08:09 PM EDT
Watch Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal narrowly avoid a train during a railway safety press conference.

Soooooo Cloooooose

The .gif is mesmerizing.
Link Posted: 4/19/2014 5:25:40 PM EDT
[#1]
The guy speaking should have nudged him a little
Link Posted: 4/19/2014 5:28:56 PM EDT
[#2]
Lol
The irony of that would have been...ironic
Link Posted: 4/19/2014 5:32:02 PM EDT
[#3]
I guess he didn't notice the big yellow stripe on the platform?
Link Posted: 4/19/2014 5:53:14 PM EDT
[#4]
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Lol
The irony of that would have been...ironic
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Can't have irony without iron and that was a lot of iron passing might close.
Link Posted: 4/19/2014 6:08:44 PM EDT
[#5]
Better luck next time. Very disappointing.
Link Posted: 4/20/2014 3:57:01 AM EDT
[#6]
Missed it by ..... That much!
Link Posted: 4/20/2014 8:32:58 AM EDT
[#7]
I see your Blumenthal and raise you one Malloy.
Link Posted: 4/20/2014 8:43:22 AM EDT
[#8]
The guy is such an idiot he doesn't even know what the yellow line is there for.
Link Posted: 4/20/2014 2:16:35 PM EDT
[#9]
not even close at all, coming from a former NYC commuter.
Link Posted: 4/20/2014 3:27:59 PM EDT
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The guy is such an idiot he doesn't even know what the yellow line is there for.
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It's for the little people.  You know, the ones who use mass transit rather than being driven around in town cars in limos.

How could such an important man be expected to know what the silly yellow thing is for?

Must be art, no?
Link Posted: 4/20/2014 3:29:43 PM EDT
[#11]
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not even close at all, coming from a former NYC commuter.
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Done enough time on platforms in NYC and Chicago.

Yeah, that was close.  Damn near spun him which would have counted as a hit(ish).
Link Posted: 4/20/2014 7:47:42 PM EDT
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I guess he didn't notice the big yellow stripe on the platform?
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The one with the bumps?  Those bumps are only to warn the blind visitors.  So they didn't apply to him.
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 4:24:50 AM EDT
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The guy is such an idiot he doesn't even know what the yellow line is there for.
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Someone decided to place the prop board stand there on the yellow line at the platform's edge for the camera shot. That person is the idiot just as much as the media whore Blumenthal is. No way Blumenthal did that. No way that stupid graphic prop would have remained on the board when the Amtrak train whizzed by. This funny little incident does show one thing though. It shows that those who clamor for high speed trains are not the one's who ride them. Anyone who's ridden on MTA more than once or twice knows that you don't stand right on the platform's edge like Blumenthal did nor would you setup the prop board stand there for the same reason.
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 5:25:10 AM EDT
[#14]
To bad the conductor didn't kick him as the train went by.
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 6:26:13 AM EDT
[#15]
He's the only one "professional" enough to stand that close while discussing train safety...
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 7:29:56 AM EDT
[#16]
Where is Murphy when you need him????
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 12:37:05 PM EDT
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He's the only one "professional" enough to stand that close while discussing train safety...
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It's because of all his Viet Nam combat. No one is that brave except for Blumey.

Imagine for a moment Sen "Mr Middle Class" Murphy got run over by the train. Lard would be spattered for 200 yards!
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 1:09:39 PM EDT
[#18]
The irony of him getting hit by an MTA train while holding a presser complaining about MTA safety would have been priceless.
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 2:29:14 PM EDT
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The irony of him getting hit by an MTA train while holding a presser complaining about MTA safety would have been priceless.
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It's gone national on Fox News in a few minutes

What a bunch of dopes we elected to ruin this country
Link Posted: 4/21/2014 5:56:08 PM EDT
[#20]
you can see that thousand man stare in his cold dead eyes, Vietnam hardened that man up
Link Posted: 4/26/2014 1:58:28 PM EDT
[#21]
This came to me last night.
Amuses me.

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