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Originally Posted by Daradon
Yeah, there's being distracted though, and then there's just being stupid. Watching that video above, that man isn't just distracted, he's clearly not giving a crap about anything. There's a whole pile of people stopped and waiting that he pushes past. It's almost less about being distracted, and more about not being responsible to to the people and world around him.
It is a sad thing, and I've never been one to say 'damn, what an inconvenience' when something like this occurs. But it's also another thing to baby proof all of society because some people can't pay attention, or worse yet, don't even seem to care to try and pay attention or have any responsibility to the world around them.
I imagine that guy has been in more than his share of car accidents too...
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I've been thinking about this a bit more.
Initially my opinion has always been: How do you get hit by a train?
Have you been near one? Or a station? They are, physically speaking, rather quite large and somewhat on the loud and noisy side and normally, they tend to be surrounded by a large group of other people whom, if you take your cues by the crowd, by and large tend to all be doing the same thing.
So if you're the only one doing something thats typically something of a 'red flag.'
Watching that video he shoulders his way through a crowd and physically opens an automatically closing gate in order to do his own thing while everyone else waits patiently in the gloriously provided safety of the platform.
He had his headphones on? To what volume level? 110%? And even then train crossings and platforms tend not to rely on only a single form of attracting attention. For every loud bell there tends to be a couple of flashing lights for company.
So not only was he not listening, he wasnt watching. He had touch, but he successfully used that to open the gate. They could institute an alarm via odor like rotten eggs or skunk or something, but I've been on the trains and it stands to reason that this could also go unnoticed if the other senses had little to no effect.
So short of some sort of taste alarm we have to resort to having a guy with a hockey stick at every train crossing prepared to cross-check and/or shin-hack people who not only arent paying attention but are so out of it that apparently no reasonable alarm can snap them back to reality. Being hit with a hockey stick tends to demand notice.
If a hundred people get off a train and one gets hit, what does that say? Why the one special snowflake? How can all of these people successfully avoid colliding with trains on a regular day-to-day basis but the one person cannot?
However, we cannot be so cold or callous as to not understand that death seems to be a fairly harsh punishment even for all of the above. So whats the solution? Other than men armed with hockey sticks?