Yesterday on the train

[Echewta]

I thought we ran over rocks as I heard that banging underneith the train car. Big rocks. Not uncommon and often very loud. Turns out the rocks broke the device that opens the train doors. They finally got the doors to work only to discover we didn't go over rocks, we hit and killed a horse on the tracks. That was horse parts I heard thudding under the car.

:confused:

[Qdrop]

dude...

....

dude?




how did a horse get on the railroad tracks?

[jabumbo]

they don't call is a cow catcher for nothing

[hpdrifter]

that was actually going to be my response.

... dude. :(

I hate to read about animal suffering.

Even though the horse probably didn't suffer all that much.

[Rock]

They have horses in LA?

[Echewta]

this part of town has homes that have horses. Why a horse was on the track, i have no idea. I never felt the brakes so I'm assuming the engineer didn't see it or realized that braking wasn't going to change the fact.

I spoke with a guy who was on a train that hit a person. He watched the cops walk around the train with ice chests picking up bits and pieces of the fellow.

[hpdrifter]

That sounds like a job to be featured on that Dirty jobs show.

blech

[Kid Presentable]

So one time my father had a race horse drop dead in the paddock, from an apparent heart attack. By the time anybody gets to the thing, rigor has firmly set in. So my old man and his mates dig a hole for this nag.

Only it's not deep enough. The legs are poking up from the torso, pretty much. So my old man grabs a chainsaw, and cuts the legs off. Wraps em up nicely in some old curtains, and buries them with the horse.

"She'll be right" I imagine him saying.

I'm going to turn out just like him. (y)

When I was a toddler I used to escape and run about in the paddocks with the horses. I wonder if I was kicked in the head? I've almost convinced myself I was.


gurrrguurrgurrrr.

oopa!

[instigator7022]

So one time my father had a race horse drop dead in the paddock, from an apparent heart attack. By the time anybody gets to the thing, rigor has firmly set in. So my old man and his mates dig a hole for this nag.

Only it's not deep enough. The legs are poking up from the torso, pretty much. So my old man grabs a chainsaw, and cuts the legs off. Wraps em up nicely in some old curtains, and buries them with the horse.

"She'll be right" I imagine him saying.

I'm going to turn out just like him. (y)

When I was a toddler I used to escape and run about in the paddocks with the horses. I wonder if I was kicked in the head? I've almost convinced myself I was.


gurrrguurrgurrrr.

oopa!

okay thats sick.

[Kid Presentable]

okay thats sick.

Fully sick mate! (y)

[Kid Presentable]

I saw them shoot a horse as a kid. And some dogs too. Old dogs that couldn't work anymore. And the old dogs knew it. Like angry old humans who accepted their fate but lived on as long as they could to spite it, until.....

KERRRRBLLAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!

Teaching children about nature (ie that things die and fuck and all that) to me seems much better than suburbanising them.

I'm gonna move my tribe (when we have one) out to the country.

[abcdefz]

I thought we ran over rocks as I heard that banging underneith the train car. Big rocks. Not uncommon and often very loud. Turns out the rocks broke the device that opens the train doors. They finally got the doors to work only to discover we didn't go over rocks, we hit and killed a horse on the tracks. That was horse parts I heard thudding under the car.

:confused:




...a Caltrans train just hit a pickup truck yesterday, cutting it in two. Killed the 18 year-old girlfriend of the 20 year-old driver.

Stupid kid got tired of waiting for the train and drove around the gate, trying to beat it.

I totally understand going around the gate when nothing's happening, but... I mean... a train has to be yards away if you're crossing and it hits you, right? That's pretty fucking stupid.

[instigator7022]

Teaching children about nature (ie that things die and fuck and all that) to me seems much better than suburbanising them.



yah i believe that too but im not about to shoot animals in front of little kids

[ms.peachy]

:eek:
jeepers, mate

[Kid Presentable]

yah i believe that too but im not about to shoot animals in front of little kids

Why not?

Little kids hear about soldiers shooting 'Bad Guys'. Why sanitize their world? Teach them about actual, non-politicized 'Tactical' death early, and they might grow up to value life a little more.

[Kid Presentable]

Supposedly they get a 'one under' on the London Underground like every day or something. I've never seen anything though. But my train was once delayed for ages once because kids were dropping big plastic wheelie bins off bridges in front of trains.

When I was in London, I always hoped to see one, but no luck.

[yeahwho]

Track Kill! Track Kill! Track Kill!

[Knuckles]

I remember when I was 15 my dad was following a wee bit too close to the semi in front of us and didn't have time to stop or swerve around a dead deer that was in the middle of the road. Our Ford Aerostar just ran that sucker over. I can still visualize the deer confetti shooting out the back of the van. The aroma of roasting deer intestines was quite pleasant for the rest of our two hour drive home.

[yeahwho]

I remember when I was 15 my dad was following a wee bit too close to the semi in front of us and didn't have time to stop or swerve around a dead deer that was in the middle of the road. Our Ford Aerostar just ran that sucker over. I can still visualize the deer confetti shooting out the back of the van. The aroma of roasting deer intestines was quite pleasant for the rest of our two hour drive home.

I hit a deer on Whidbey Island once in little Honda Accord, it flipped over the car (left a dent on the hood) and rolled behind me, stood up, shook it off and ran back into the woods. I could of swore that deer flipped me off with it's hoof.

I also ran over an already runovered (sp) deer in the redwoods at 3 AM once and all the way to SF it smelled like cooking venison. :o

[ericlee]

I read about one time, these 2 horses were doin' the do and the male horse slipped and pulled out right when it had it's moment and it sprayed all over a couple of visitors who were at the farm watching em get it on.

I think looking at a scattered horse would be a little bit less disturbing than seeing that.

[jackrock]

that's pretty sad (n)

[marsdaddy]

Maybe the horse was suicidal over a lack of sexual satisfaction?

[paulb]

who cares about horses....maybe you shouldnt watch Braveheart if you're one of those animal lovers. Now, if it was a Cat...then id be sad. But what a stupid horse.

[paulb]

I read about one time, these 2 horses were doin' the do and the male horse slipped and pulled out right when it had it's moment and it sprayed all over a couple of visitors who were at the farm watching em get it on.

I think looking at a scattered horse would be a little bit less disturbing than seeing that.



I wouldnt mind seeing that on America's Funniest Home Videos!

[kll]

grody story, echewta. i'm sad now.

[jammytastic]

I saw them shoot a horse as a kid. And some dogs too. Old dogs that couldn't work anymore. And the old dogs knew it. Like angry old humans who accepted their fate but lived on as long as they could to spite it, until.....

KERRRRBLLAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!

Teaching children about nature (ie that things die and fuck and all that) to me seems much better than suburbanising them.

I'm gonna move my tribe (when we have one) out to the country.

i had this weird job when i was young. i used to shock pigs. it was the denny factory where they make rashers and sausages and puddin etc. it was great fun. youd shock them and then theyd go down and then someone else would slit their throats and hang them upside down.

there was about 7 of us. wed get free rashers and sausages and wed think we were the business bringing home the bacon to the families.

good clean family fun.


if i ever have kids theyll be doing stuff like that rather than jockeying a register.

i heart kid presentable.

[jammytastic]

i LOVE animals.

theyre delicious.

[Rawr]

thats just sad :( about the train-horse thing.

[kleptomaniac]

They finally got the doors to work only to discover we didn't go over rocks, we hit and killed a horse on the tracks. That was horse parts I heard thudding under the car.

RIP anonymous horse :(


btw, what happened to the horse parts?.....glue? :confused:

[jammytastic]

they dont still use horses for glue do they?

[ericlee]

I wouldnt mind seeing that on America's Funniest Home Videos!

even funnier if Sagat himself were live onscene hosting it and caught the mainstream..

[Kid Presentable]

even funnier if Sagat himself were live onscene hosting it and caught the mainstream..

TIGER UPPERCUT!

[kleptomaniac]

I wouldnt mind seeing that on America's Funniest Home Videos!

he'd probably just be doing another one of those silly voices...

"oh no! a train! gee i hope i don't....ahhhh! it got me! gee whillikers, that hurts guys!"
**canned laughter**

[Echewta]

The conductor apologized for any incovience last nights delay may have caused. :confused:

Apparently a horse got free of its stable and thought the tracks was a cool place to chill.

[abcdefz]

Lay my horse on the railroad tracks
Waitin' for the Double E
Railroad don't run no more
Poor, poor pitiful me

[Kid Presentable]

Somebody got to die.