expatriado@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIn the domain of attention seekers. Who ranks higher? Elon or Trump? What makes you believe so?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down124
arrow-up1-3arrow-down1message-squareIn the domain of attention seekers. Who ranks higher? Elon or Trump? What makes you believe so?expatriado@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squarestoylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoThat was surprisingly common in the days of steam… Here is a famous incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_at_Crush And here is a WTYPpod episode about it: https://youtu.be/mn4W9LT1cI4
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-24 months agoThey did, but he is omitting important information: The railroad company themselves did it, with empty trains. Sorry I meant the old stuff, not the idiot from 2024 derailing trains.
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·4 months agoBullshit. Why on Earth would BNSF do that? They want to make money, not send some random teenager in Nebraska to jail
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoSorry this is a mix of old and new. They did it a few times back in the day with steam locomotives on purpose. The new stuff was an idiot risking lives of others.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoWhat was the new one about?
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoSee his comment here with a link. Crazy stuff.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI thought that was the old one.
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoNo, that was in the 19th(?) century. See links in this comment here.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoOh, steam as in steam engines. I thought they were referring to the service called Steam. Darn, Thomas had it hard.
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·4 months agohttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/27/nebraska-teen-charged-with-criminal-mischief-for-c/
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoCriminal mischief? For derailing a train? What’s next, arrests for “being rude” when demolishing the town hall?
Who did that?
That was surprisingly common in the days of steam…
Here is a famous incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_at_Crush
And here is a WTYPpod episode about it:
https://youtu.be/mn4W9LT1cI4
They did, but he is omitting important information: The railroad company themselves did it, with empty trains.
Sorry I meant the old stuff, not the idiot from 2024 derailing trains.
Bullshit. Why on Earth would BNSF do that? They want to make money, not send some random teenager in Nebraska to jail
Sorry this is a mix of old and new. They did it a few times back in the day with steam locomotives on purpose.
The new stuff was an idiot risking lives of others.
What was the new one about?
See his comment here with a link. Crazy stuff.
I thought that was the old one.
No, that was in the 19th(?) century. See links in this comment here.
Oh, steam as in steam engines. I thought they were referring to the service called Steam.
Darn, Thomas had it hard.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/27/nebraska-teen-charged-with-criminal-mischief-for-c/
Criminal mischief? For derailing a train? What’s next, arrests for “being rude” when demolishing the town hall?