This weeks darwin nominee...jogging on train track with headphones.

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Posted: 4/8/2013 10:45:16 AM EDT

http://www.newson6.com/story/21905785/craig-county-teenager-struck-killed-by-freight-train

WELCH, Oklahoma - A 16-year-old Welch boy is dead after being hit by a train in Craig County Sunday evening.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports Mathew "Logan" T. Hankins was jogging south on the railroad tracks near 1st Street and Highway 59 in Welch when a southbound Union Pacific freight train hit him.

The incident happened at 5 p.m. on April 7, 2013.

Troopers say Hankins was pronounced dead at the scene.

The OHP says two people on the freight train, an engineer and conductor, were not injured.

The Vinita OHP detachment confirmed that Hankins was wearing earphones while he was jogging.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:46:39 AM EDT

[#1]

we really need to ban headphones,

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:47:07 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
we really need to ban headphones,

This is the only way.

Or trains

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:49:11 AM EDT

[#3]

Darwin-1
dumbass - 0

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:49:55 AM EDT

[#4]

Bose Life-Canceling(TM) Earphones

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:50:05 AM EDT

[#5]

Was he listening to big and rich

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:50:26 AM EDT

[#6]

How do you not hear a freight train even with headphones?

Fuckers are obnoxious loud.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:50:26 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
we really need to ban headphones,

I prefer to cull the herd.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:51:13 AM EDT

[#8]

Same thing happened on the line I work on about a month ago. Killt him good. Play stupid games and what not.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:51:22 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

How do you not hear a freight train even with headphones?

Fuckers are obnoxious loud.

Not when they're coming toward you, at speed. You'd be surprised how quiet they can be.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:51:45 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Was he listening to big and rich

Blackfoot, "Train, train"

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:53:09 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:

How do you not hear a freight train even with headphones?

Fuckers are obnoxious loud.

Not when they're coming toward you, at speed. You'd be surprised how quiet they can be.

But the train horn is not quiet.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:53:30 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How do you not hear a freight train even with headphones?

Fuckers are obnoxious loud.

Not when they're coming toward you, at speed. You'd be surprised how quiet they can be.

Even then, you can usually feel it in the ground. I swear I can when I get caught by one of the BNSF trains on the way to work, in an 01 suburban no less.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:54:20 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How do you not hear a freight train even with headphones?

Fuckers are obnoxious loud.

Not when they're coming toward you, at speed. You'd be surprised how quiet they can be.

But the train horn is not quiet.

He was probably listening to dubstep.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:54:43 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

we really need to ban headphones,

No, we must obviously ban trains. They're a danger to our children.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:54:56 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
we really need to ban headphones,

That could be a very, very bad thing.

Headphones : protecting me from hearing ghettomusic for 30 years.

Posted: 4/8/2013 10:56:01 AM EDT

[#16]

No matter how much the music may help you "go", it's a bad idea to be out in public in the wild somewhere without situational awareness that ears provide.

Biking, jogging, walking, etc. Yard work is probably OK.

Anyway, isn't jogging on tracks basically a one way ticket to a screwed up ankle?

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:01:25 AM EDT

[#17]

A deserving death.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:05:17 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

A deserving death.

People just have no fucking clue. It amazes me. I'm surprised more people don't get killed.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:07:09 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:

How do you not hear a freight train even with headphones?

Fuckers are obnoxious loud.

Not when they're coming toward you, at speed. You'd be surprised how quiet they can be.

Even then, you can usually feel it in the ground. I swear I can when I get caught by one of the BNSF trains on the way to work, in an 01 suburban no less.

Can't feel it until it's pretty much on you. There's a reason we've got a rulebook thicker than the bible and most of those rules relate to occupying the track.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:14:36 AM EDT

[#20]

I'm glad I'm not the one who got to bag up the pieces, or the guy who got to hose off the front of the locomotive.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:16:24 AM EDT

[#21]

Bloomberg set this shit up to further his 'high capacity decibel ear-bud' ban legislation.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:28:17 AM EDT

[#22]

Sucks for the crew that had to watch that and the guy that had to wash off the front of the locomotive. The last time I had to do that I found hair and brain matter still stuck on the coupler.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:31:52 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Was he listening to big and rich

Blackfoot, "Train, train"

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:35:27 AM EDT

[#24]

"The OHP says two people on the freight train, an engineer and conductor, were not injured."

No kidding?

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:35:32 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Was he listening to big and rich

Blackfoot, "Train, train"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsxDfAaOfc

Take me on out of this life

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:36:44 AM EDT

[#26]

Three days off for the crew

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:37:06 AM EDT

[#27]

Jogging this weekend an encounter with a seriously pissed off raccoon. I was running a wooded section of trail early in the morning (low light). I heard an odd noise. Slowed down a little...heard it again louder so I stopped. He was a few yards in front of me on the edge of the trail ready to pounce. Slowly backed up and turned around. Had I never heard him he probably would have taken a chunk out of my leg before I knew he was there.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:42:35 AM EDT

[#28]

Here's the vid.

Posted: 4/8/2013 11:46:52 AM EDT

[#29]

suicide?

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:29:10 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Was he listening to big and rich

Blackfoot, "Train, train"

Jethro Tull, "Locamotive Breath"

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:35:07 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
"The OHP says two people on the freight train, an engineer and conductor, were not injured."

No kidding?

Oh, if they watched it happen, they are most likely injured, at least a little, mentally.

EDIT: "Watched it happen" as in helpless to get the guy off the tracks before the inevitable happened. Not that they just "watched it happen" and did nothing to try to warn the chunky smear of his impending doom..

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:50:15 PM EDT

[#32]

Personally I don't walk or run around outside with headphones. Gym, airport terminal, back yard- ok. It hinders your awareness of your surroundings.

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:52:37 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Bose Life-Canceling(TM) Earphones

Funny shit right there. Lmao

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:55:27 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
A deserving death.

People just have no fucking clue. It amazes me. I'm surprised more people don't get killed.

Doesn't amaze me. We live in a society that emphasizes "harm reduction" over common sense.

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:55:41 PM EDT

[#35]

The OHP says two people on the freight train, an engineer and conductor, were not injured.

lol

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:56:52 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
we really need to ban headphones,

And trains too!

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:57:31 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
we really need to ban headphones,

for ze childrens

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:57:44 PM EDT

[#38]

Well, sad but yep, he should win I guess. His actions seem pretty

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:58:37 PM EDT

[#39]

Rumor is he was listening to drops of Jupiter by train.

Posted: 4/8/2013 12:59:55 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How do you not hear a freight train even with headphones?

Fuckers are obnoxious loud.

Not when they're coming toward you, at speed. You'd be surprised how quiet they can be.

But the train horn is not quiet.

At intersections...

Posted: 4/8/2013 1:00:16 PM EDT

[#41]

My great grandmother died in the exact same way.

Except she was 95 and not a teenager.

And walking home from the store, not jogging (didn't need to, healthy as a small italian horse)

And stone deaf due to age, not stupidity.

And not really on the tracks but beside them; the train didn't hit her but she was startled and fell.

So, yeah, um...

Posted: 4/8/2013 1:03:04 PM EDT

[#42]

It must be contagious. Detroit radio reported a 50yr old guy got splattered today or yesterday by an amtrak train while listening to headphones.

Posted: 4/8/2013 1:10:16 PM EDT

[#43]

Just imagine being the guy that has to hose the front of the trail and the wheels off.

Posted: 4/8/2013 3:04:55 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Just imagine being the guy that has to hose the front of the trail and the wheels off.

They should paint the front of the trains white and leave the stains there so people see the smears .... maybe learning a lesson in the process.

Posted: 4/8/2013 4:36:42 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Just imagine being the guy that has to hose the front of the trail and the wheels off.

They should paint the front of the trains white and leave the stains there so people see the smears .... maybe learning a lesson in the process.

People who have to be "educated" about staying the hell off railroad tracks are too dumb to learn from such an example.

Posted: 4/8/2013 4:41:52 PM EDT

[#46]

Sounds like some retraining is in order.

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Posted: 4/8/2013 4:43:31 PM EDT

[#47]

Worked a train fatality back in 2006, deaf teenager walking along the railroad tracks texting her mother. The conductor watched the whole thing right up to impact, he did not know she was deaf and kept repeating over and over, "why didn't she move"? I'm told they retired the conductor after that.

The train had video.

Posted: 4/8/2013 4:51:20 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

Here's the vid.

MOOOVE.

Posted: 4/8/2013 4:56:20 PM EDT

[#49]

Should have been wearing his bike helmet.

Joking aside, I'm glad I'm not to the point in life that I can read something like this and post up with complete indifference or even more saying he deserved to die.

I do agree though that safety is a mental function and that people are way too coddled these days.

Posted: 4/8/2013 8:51:24 PM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Just imagine being the guy that has to hose the front of the trail and the wheels off.

They should paint the front of the trains white and leave the stains there so people see the smears .... maybe learning a lesson in the process.

I got on a engine one day and it had marks under the engineers window. Like you see on WWII fighter planes. LMFAO.

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