July 30, 2007

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:49 pm

Well, its July 30 here, and I feel this mornings news is worth starting the days topic for.

So, on the way to work early in the morning, same as normal, and the train derails going through the Oaklands Park station.

We aren't talking twisted metal and dead bodies strewn across the landscape. For some reason, the back two cars have jumped off the track, making the rear most car begin to jack knife. We were going the standard snails crawl that is Adelaide transport, so there was no human injury. The driver pretty much stopped when there was the deafening sound of grating metal and flying stones.

I took some pictures. The derailment is less than spectacular, but there you go.

Question of the Day:
Have you been in any public transport mishaps?

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:21 pm

Glad no one was hurt.
Damn kids and their penny flattening fetishes, always derailing trains.

QOTD: I avoid public transportation because I get claustrophobic'ish. I prefer to drive myself so that I'm in control of my destination and surroundings.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:37 pm

QotD:

I was on the train with my co-worker and her husband. I was leaning against the door of the train. Then suddenly, the glass window of the door fell out of the train and I almost fell out with it. I was able to regain my balance and pull myself back in the train before i could smash into one of the stone pillars or fall out all the way. My co-worker said "I saw you die!"

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:17 pm

That's freaky, Niv.

I haven't had any bad mishaps, other than a few false landings and once when my plane cut across the jet thrust of another on take off and we were pushed sideways what felt like a few hundred feet. But a friend was on one of the big Amtrak crashes years ago, near Baltimore. Bodies, fire, etc. Changed his life.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:57 am

Today is apparently the day of 1978...

QotD: not a "mishap," but I think my biggest public transit adventure was when I flew to Wichita, KS to visit one friend, then took the bus up to Beloit, WI to visit another. Not only did I have to change buses in Chicago, I had to change bus lines in Chicago at 3 a.m., and I had no idea where the two terminals were in relation to each other. Fortunately, the Greyhound and Continental terminals were right by each other, in the cruddy part of Chicago where the bus terminals are/were. This was in the summer of 1978, when one of the big stories in the news was that the American Nazi Party wanted to hold a big march in Skokie, IL. There was at least one guy on the bus who was definitely on his way to be in the parade.

Not real hot, but mighty sticky in Phoenix this morning. Fortunately, most of my duties for the day are indoor stuff. A couple hours at the dentist having a crown put on (I have a filling that was put in about the same time as that trip to Chicago, and the tooth is finally cracking). The last time I was there, I swear they got the hoses crossed on the nitrous machine; I never did feel the effect while they were working on me, but then when they switched me over to "pure oxygen," I started feeling it, to the extent that when I walked out to the car to drive home, I felt so woozy that I went back in and sat in the office for about fifteen minutes. I'm still surprised they haven't called me up to say, "oops, you were right, we had the hoses crossed," but I suppose they're just waiting for me to come in today so they can apologize in person...

Other than that, I've got a few G&G song demos to get done (stuff we're doing with our band at church that I need to learn) and one in-progress recording that needs vocals (of a song that I wrote in 1978 and never got around to recording; it's the one that almost got away. The cold sore that has been driving me nuts the past couple weeks is finally almost gone, but I'm worried it'll erupt again after this crown gets put on, so I need to get caught up on vocal tracks... A whole bunch of chord charts for church music that need to be checked and printed out. And I should do something jobhunt-related today. And maybe they'll post the new SF title today, too...

Charles (KA)

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:39 am

I saw Steve Miller last night. It was quite good. The New Cars (w. Todd Rundgren) opened, and they were great.

My CDs shipped out on Friday, and I should have them in hand Wednesday. Yay!

QotD: Never been in a public transport mishap, but a weird and only-somewhat-related thing happened at the show last night. I ran into a guy who I used to play pool with, and he said "wow, I'm really glad to see you, 'cause I heard you died". Apparently someone named Jim Tyrrell fell off the M. S. Mount Washington in Lake Winnipesaukee last year. I'm gonna investigate that, I guess.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:42 am

sausage boy wrote:Question of the Day:
Have you been in any public transport mishaps?

Not a mishap - but a few weeks ago I got on the train and there was a slovenley teenager sprawled over a two seats while adults were standing. I gave him a damn good talking to and embarrassed him in front of his friends! Damn punk-arsed kids. I love being an old prick with a hat!

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:45 am

roymond wrote:But a friend was on one of the big Amtrak crashes years ago, near Baltimore. Bodies, fire, etc. Changed his life.

How exactly did it change his life?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:11 am

Another big day at the small ISP. Everything is broken I swear. Busy fielding calls and keeping them off the backs of the guys doin' the hard work.

I had a friend stay with me for a few days because she moved her flight back a couple of days. She moved to Phoenix. (Mesa actually) Mixed feelings about the whole thing. I had a band recorded at Bread Box Studios (aka as my bedroom)...so the last few days have been hectic and my apartment is a complete mess.

qotd: The second time I saw Paul McCartney live(this time at the Georgia Dome), we took a train back to the car. On our way back to the car in a very tightly packed train car while underneath downtown Atlanta, MARTA had a power failure. It went pitch black for about 30 seconds before the dim emergency lighting came on. 15 minutes later it was getting really really hot and just a few minutes after that you could tell it was getting a little hotter and harder to breathe. Most people were handling it ok but you could hear a couple of people in the beginning stages of panic in the sense you could hear their companions talking/helping them through the experience. We were down there for about 30 minutes before they started towing us to the next station to have us grab another train (or bus or cab).

Niv wins. Christ that must have been scary. Just of what I've seen in video of people getting smacked while outside of windows. You could have been nothing but a bloody torso on the tracks while a pair of legs falling limp inside the train.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:49 pm

====== DRC ======

Today I lost all my remaining misgivings about leaving Amazon.

====== QOTD ======

I lived right along the Seattle monorail line when the crash happened a couple years ago. I could see it from my apartment.

Also about 6 months ago I was riding in a bus when it got rear-ended by a truck.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:33 am

fluffy wrote: Also about 6 months ago I was riding in a bus when it got rear-ended by a truck.

Heh, now that's kind of funny.

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