Dumb Ways to Die - Thanks to andrewducker

[f4f3]

Originally posted by andrewducker at This morning's awesome videos

james_nicoll had this video whereby particularly stupid ways to die are sung about in a cute and perky fashion:

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[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Awww, it's like Dorothy Parker set to music!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

It's very sweet, isn't it?

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

Given the number of train-related deaths I've been aware of locally, yeah. (The most recent was one at a crossing without a gate. They're putting gates at a few crossings that they hadn't seen the need for, now. At least only the driver died; the two kids in the car survived.)

The wasp thing - the guy less than 4 miles from our house didn't realize there was a nest of Africanized honeybees in that piece of furniture in the warehouse, and he survived. They blocked off the road right around there for a little while, though, to get the bees under control before anyone else got too close.

And the pet rattlesnake? I have a friend in the medical profession with a story about that.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I thought the UK was the only place stupid enough to have uncontrolled crossings - looks like not. We're safe from killer Africanized honeybees, though.

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

Well, all the major roads do. Not all the minor roads have them, though, and that may have been what it was where the guy tried - and failed - to cross, plans thwarted by a commuter train.

There are driveways I pass on a regular basis that don't have gates - the road is north of the track (by 15', maybe) and the house is south of the track (by 50' or more). There's signage at each of those driveways, and the trains use their horns on that stretch of track.

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

Example at 3195-3207 E Palm Valley Blvd, Round Rock, TX 78665 http://m.google.com/u/m/BRhJpT

If you go east-ish along the track, and you're in satellite view, you can make out gate structures at the bigger crossings. That driveway, however, doesn't have one.

That's not terribly close to where the recent collision happened, though.