2 Commuter Trains Collide Near Boston At Rush Hr[views:2053][posts:14]________________________________ [May 28,2008 9:27pm - zyklon ""] NEWTON, Mass. - Several people are injured and a train operator is trapped after a rush-hour collision between two trains outside Boston. A spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority says there are multiple injuries in Wednesday evening's accident above ground in Newton. Joe Pesaturo says one train hit the back of another that had just begun to move after stopping at a signal near a station. He says workers are trying to free the seriously injured operator of the second train. He says one passenger was flown to a hospital after the accident |
| _______________________________________________________ [May 28,2008 9:31pm - ArrowHead likes Ellios Pizza ""] That really sucks. I hope they get the driver out. |
| __________________________________ [May 28,2008 9:43pm - brian_dc ""] goddamn train accidents are no joke |
| ________________________________________ [May 28,2008 10:36pm - thuringwethil ""] one of the train drivers has died yikes |
| _______________________________________ [May 29,2008 7:55am - thuringwethil ""] and now . . . the CARTOON! http://www.boston.com/interactive/graphics/052908_mbta_crash/ |
| ___________________________________ [May 29,2008 12:10pm - dertoxia ""] wow that cartoon is so monty python-esque |
| ___________________________________ [May 29,2008 12:19pm - pam nli ""] Oh good. Now the mental train crash I always have in my paranoid fucking head while on the train is going to be so much more fun. |
| _________________________________ [May 29,2008 12:28pm - xmikex ""] Good thing somebody animated those trains moving, otherwise I never would have been able to picture it. |
| ________________________________________________________ [May 29,2008 12:39pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] I just thought it was funny, the graphic keeps looping in motion, the train is going along like, "Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo. Nooney-nooney-noo." too silly. |
| _____________________________________ [May 29,2008 2:22pm - sacreligion ""] thuringwethil said:and now . . . the CARTOON! http://www.boston.com/interactive/graphics/052908_mbta_crash/ this just made math a whole lot cooler |
| ____________________________________________ [May 30,2008 4:45pm - Neverpurified nli ""] the operator may have been talking on her cell phone, as a few passengers reported. it hasnt been confirmed though |
| _______________________________________________________ [May 30,2008 4:51pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] oh jesus. that's so wrong if she was, and she's the one who got killed as a result |
| ______________________________________ [May 30,2008 5:02pm - the_reverend ""] does anyone else think about Robert Frost when they see the title of this thread? that seriously is all i can think about when I see it. |
| ___________________________________________ [May 30,2008 5:23pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] nope. not even remotely. |
| _______________________________________________________ [May 31,2008 9:48am - thuringwethil at the library ""] Nooney-nooney-noo. |