dumbass photog almost hit by train

[danchez]

DAMN!!!!!

This is why people are not allowed to shoot on train tracks!!!!

Always stay behind the yellow line!!!

[JohnT]

Good night that was close!

[bburton]

Now, for a quick trip to the cleaners.

[groovyone]

Yikes!!

[texkam]

He needs to buy a lottery ticket.

[danchez]

Originally Posted by texkam

He needs to buy a lottery ticket.

uhh, I wouldn't call this lucky, more like STUPID!!! but I suppose stupid people can win the lotto too.

[DoublyDan]

OH MY! That train came out of nowhere, couldn't hear it either cause of the first one....That guy looked like he had seen a ghost!

It looked like it almost sucked him closer to the train!

[tc95]

That is just as bad as this one...



LOL...Those Rally Photog's are the craziest...!!!

[toverman]

Originally Posted by bburton

Now, for a quick trip to the cleaners.

And to the store to buy some new underwear!

[CaptainTom]

Originally Posted by tc95

That is just as bad as this one...



LOL...Those Rally Photog's are the craziest...!!!

Been there, done that !!! It was a Baja style race at Riverside International Raceway in Cal.
Another photog grabbed my collar and pulled me out of the way of a buggy going end over end right over our standing spot. Whew !!!

[Imagebuffet]

Years ago, when I was a volunteer fireman in the mountains East of Albuquerque, I worked traffic control on the Interstate. After one late-night accident, there was just one ambulance and myself left at the accident scene, and almost no other traffic. I stopped a van with a family inside by holding up my stop sign, so the ambulance could pull out. I watched it drive away, as I was half-dozing while I was standing there, in the middle of I-40. I realized, then, that I should let the van go, as the ambulance was well on its way. Just as I turned around my stop sign, a car carrier semi truck came barreling around the curve, coming downhill towards the back of the van at 60+ mph, horn blaring. The semi driver swerved to miss the van, which meant heading into the traffic lane where I was standing. I took 3 giant steps backwards as soon as I saw what was happening, and missed getting hit by that semi by about as much as that guy in the video missed getting hit by the train.

After the semi had passed out of sight, the van was still setting about where he was before the semi passed him. I was really awake at that point! I recovered enough to swing my sign at the van and indicate for him to proceed, which he did.

I always felt horrible about that. If that semi had struck that van--it was one of those VW vans--nothing of that van would have remained. I was surprised that no one ever mentioned it to me. I would have expected the van driver to have complained.

[texkam]

uhh, I wouldn't call this lucky, more like STUPID!!!

He's lucky he wasn't real stupid.

[Charles Putnam]

Cleansing of the gene pool....

[shamrock]

that's not a photographer, that's just some idiot with a camera

[Hanky]

Originally Posted by shamrock

that's not a photographer, that's just some idiot with a camera

looks more like a tourist.
curious though, where is the line drawn between foolish and risk taking for a good picture?
war photogs, rally photogs, high rise building photogs etc. are they all dumbasses too?
just asking