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stay off the tracks

Post by slipknot »

not sure if everyones already seen this yet, forgive me if you have. its a suveilance video of a near miss of some guy running accross the tracks, he misses loosing his legs by about half a meter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=820aW-07 ... re=related
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Yeah that one has been around for a while and discussed on these forums as well. It's at Subiaco station.

All I can say is - Stay off the tracks! Bloody idiot.....!!
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Bonez wrote:All I can say is - Stay off the tracks! Bloody idiot.....!!
Another one I came across from AU:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXLLv4UIubE

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ah yes, the statistic, about 2 years ago, was there were an average 3 hits a week in the Perth area
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AO11912 wrote:ah yes, the statistic, about 2 years ago, was there were an average 3 hits a week in the Perth area
That many? Seriouse?
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idiots... all i can say

from my small time working with trains... i can honestly say that nothing makes you &%$# yourself more than seeing someone on the tracks (yes, i have seen people on the tracks with a train approaching... but i was on the train ;))
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the current $200 isnt harsh enough... it should be 3 months jail with a $5000 fine.
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slipknot wrote:the current $200 isnt harsh enough... it should be 3 months jail with a $5000 fine.

I dont think you can beat death as a penalty, thats incentive enough for me to stay off the tracks.


When I was at school in merredin, the Indian Pacific used to stop in the station loop, and would block off both walk ways, unfortunately, in the country we miss out on automated pedestrian gates like they have here.

Every one walking from Merredin Senior High, on the south side of town, to the north side home, had to cross the tracks, unfortunately the train time used to be the same time as every one trying to get home, as a result while the train was stopped I used to see people crawl under the carriages to the other side of the track's instead of waiting for the train to depart, it wouldn't take much for the train to start moving with out warning while some one was underneath. Not to mention being in full view of the passengers on board.
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:shock: ........................
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I grew up in a railway town. Kids I went to school with regularly raced their bikes to the activated boomgates/lights to try and weave around them and beat the oncoming train. :-\
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slipknot wrote:the current $200 isnt harsh enough... it should be 3 months jail with a $5000 fine.
The problem is would you want to charge a person $5K and 3 months just for jumping onto the perway to retrieve a mobile phone even when the information machine states that a train isn't due for another 10 minutes??? Compare that to the twit that decides to walk home drunk from Burswood Casino along the bridge and scares the crap out of a driver. Same offence but different.

The offence is TRESPASS and unfortunately Transit Officers and Police can't just hand an infringement out to the offender. They are summonsed to court which, by the way, is a joke because although the signs say $200 the guilty person is usually only fined $185 and gets a spent conviction.

$500 infringement on the spot as a modified penalty would suffice. Luckily no reports of near misses for a while.
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grizzla wrote:
slipknot wrote:the current $200 isnt harsh enough... it should be 3 months jail with a $5000 fine.
The problem is would you want to charge a person $5K and 3 months just for jumping onto the perway to retrieve a mobile phone even when the information machine states that a train isn't due for another 10 minutes??? Compare that to the twit that decides to walk home drunk from Burswood Casino along the bridge and scares the crap out of a driver. Same offence but different.

The offence is TRESPASS and unfortunately Transit Officers and Police can't just hand an infringement out to the offender. They are summonsed to court which, by the way, is a joke because although the signs say $200 the guilty person is usually only fined $185 and gets a spent conviction.

$500 infringement on the spot as a modified penalty would suffice. Luckily no reports of near misses for a while.
ahhh but on some lines such as the Midland there's also other trains including Freight trains, or the Prospector, Cathay Pacific etc. that use the line and do not get announced. admittedly the freight trains for the most part peel off around Woodbridge station, but the others continue through to East Perth. Australind train I believe also joins the Armadale line at some point. You can't have different rules for different lines and thus different penalties for different area's/lines
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Tyranus wrote: ahhh but on some lines such as the Midland there's also other trains including Freight trains, or the Prospector, Cathay Pacific etc. that use the line and do not get announced. admittedly the freight trains for the most part peel off around Woodbridge station, but the others continue through to East Perth. Australind train I believe also joins the Armadale line at some point. You can't have different rules for different lines and thus different penalties for different area's/lines
Errr I think you mean the Indian pacific dude.... Airbuses rarely travel on the rail network :mrgreen:
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Tyranus wrote:ahhh but on some lines such as the Midland there's also other trains including Freight trains, or the Prospector, Cathay Pacific etc. that use the line and do not get announced. admittedly the freight trains for the most part peel off around Woodbridge station, but the others continue through to East Perth. Australind train I believe also joins the Armadale line at some point. You can't have different rules for different lines and thus different penalties for different area's/lines
the australind train joins the armadale line...... at armadale :)

also: express and training trains exist too ;)

late at night is when trainee drivers go out for a run
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Nafenn wrote:
Tyranus wrote:ahhh but on some lines such as the Midland there's also other trains including Freight trains, or the Prospector, Cathay Pacific etc. that use the line and do not get announced. admittedly the freight trains for the most part peel off around Woodbridge station, but the others continue through to East Perth. Australind train I believe also joins the Armadale line at some point. You can't have different rules for different lines and thus different penalties for different area's/lines
the australind train joins the armadale line...... at armadale :)

also: express and training trains exist too ;)

late at night is when trainee drivers go out for a run
Errrr the Australind joins the Armadale line in perth, just before the Moore St level crossing, after Perth station.
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