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I saw the video last night and couldnt believe my eyes, the guy got off with a £40 fine!
I guess the driver thought he was going to get hit, and is probably now traumatised.

― willdabeast, Friday, 19 August 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

to properly play chicken, would the kids have had to drive a train straight towards the other train and see who pussied out first?

― N_RQ, Friday, 19 August 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm still impressed by the fact that a virgin train actually travel at > 100mph

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

travelled

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

also: did the boy think he was ever going to win that game of chicken?

haha xpost yes

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

There were two people playing on the line, then one pushed the other off, and he just stood facing the train until the very last second, then jumped clear.
In the 80s, kids used to ride trains by climbing up on the roof.
anyone up for it?

― willdabeast, Friday, 19 August 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

"In the 80s, kids used to ride trains by climbing up on the roof."

Train-surfing!

I have never done this although I did once have a go at Transit-surfing.

It was fuckin' terrifying!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

classic, riding around on top of a transit van!!

― willdabeast, Friday, 19 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

how did they catch the kid?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Urban Surfing was the name of the 80's train game.
it's a magazine name waiting to happem.

― piscesboy, Friday, 19 August 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

http://musicimages.liquiddigitalmedia.com/9/4/0/9/79049.gif

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

it's all music's fault!!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

what happened to the chicken?

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh, hold on...

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

travelling virgin boy plays with chicken at train > 100mph

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Trains Don't Kill People, Rappers Do

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

"so that was another werewolf i saw doing a handstand on the roof of Styles' Wolfmobile?"

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

What the hell is a "virgin train"? A train that's yet to go through a tunnel?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

I saw the video last night

Who filmed it? The kid? Or do all trains have a camera mounted on the front a la Grand Theft Auto?

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

The Virgin tag is deceptive. Apparently they go like trains. This is a terrible 'joke' in every sense.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

What the hell is a "virgin train"? A train that's yet to go through a tunnel?

it's like a 'ho train, tuomas.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

The Virgin tag is deceptive. Apparently they go like trains

Not the ones I've been on - more like horse drawn carriages

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

the pretty ones travel first class dada

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

There was a railway behind my house when I was younger and we played on the railway all the time. We’d put stuff on the tracks so trains would flatten them one of the best things was matchbox cars; they’d end up wafer thin. But the best thing was when they were working on the lines, for some reason they’d dig out a hole between 2 sleepers, we thought it’d be a good dare to get in the hole while a train went over us. I can honestly say that I thought I was going to die and only ever did this once. I get a butterfly stomach thinking about it.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Och, wee boys were forever getting run over by trains when I was at school

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

... or electrocuted at least

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I did this as a kid .. sort of. I was on the tracks and I looked up and saw a train coming. I froze. I was scared shitless/motionless. It has freaked me out ever since. In hindsight, the train was probably not even close to hitting me.

Then, my other fear of this, is jumping off the tracks at the last minute and either tripping and getting aleg caught under the wheels, or falling onto the other track and getting hit by a train coming from the other direction.

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

I suppose some of these namby-pamby, lefty, modern, social-worker types would say that was a bit extreme, just because they hadn't eaten their porridge....

(x-post Dada)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

But haven't we all stood in the school assembly hall while the headmaster told us of the death of young James McGlumpher* and gravely warned us of the danger of playing on railway lines and then haven't we all gone home and read in the local paper how James McGlumpher was a "promising pupil, popular with his classmates" when wee all know Wee Jimmy McGlumpher was a right tearaway who spent half his time doggin' school getting up to all sorts of mischief including playing on the railway line which conveniently slashed its way thru our estate?

(*not real name)

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

ive been honked at by a train driver for being at the side of the tracks near Dore station.

― willdabeast, Friday, 19 August 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm still severely traumatised by the railway safety films they used to show to us when we were kids. They'd always have some terrible storyline, like five kids go round to another boy's for his birthday and they all decide to play on the lines. One by one they all cark it in some gruesome fashion. By the end of the film the little birthday boy is sad cos there are no more of his mates left at his party. :o(

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

"Doggin' school".

Do the teachers just sit in the car park and let the kids get on with it?

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

why is it never girls playing on the tracks?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

XPOST: These days that's exactly what the probably do. Harrumph. Not in my day. We're all going to hell in a handcart. Throw another Daily Mail on the fire.

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm still severely traumatised by the railway safety films they used to show to us when we were kids.

for some reason one of the main things they show on buses is a railway safety film. i can kind of see the commercial logic; though perhaps films about the dangers of random, chip throwing psychopaths would be more in order.

― N_RQ, Friday, 19 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

xxpost they realised kissing is more fun

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

who are they kissing if all the boys are playing on the tracks?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan recorded an entire album about this phenomenon.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

who are they kissing if all the boys are playing on the tracks?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40701000/jpg/_40701538_sacred203.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2005/08/18/unexam.jpg

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

http://weblogs.gateshead.gov.uk:88/static/refdesk/Tatu.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

No wonder girls still getting better A'Level results than boys.

(x-post)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

yes i can imagine being flattened by trains can affect your exam results!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

i only remember the overhead power lines safety film from school, that was awful. and the swimming one where they messing about in a reservoir or something "I don't go around to his house anymore, not since the accident". trauma!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

why doesn't he go round his house anymore?? (was he disfigured or something?)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

If he's dead, they're wouldn't be much point in going round there anyway

― Diddyismus the Blind (of Alexandria) (Dada), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

or maybe they were talking about the reservoir ? i forget

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

ive been honked at by a train driver for being at the side of the tracks near Dore station.

Train drivers always honk at *anyone* they see near the tracks, just to warn them. The official response that staff are trained to give is to raise one arm in the air. Often, the driver will reply with a second, small honk.

Don't raise two arms in the air if a train honks at you - that's the emergency stop signal.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

i only remember the overhead power lines safety film from school, that was awful

The farm safety one was the worst. One kid drank a bottle of rat poison. Another got trapped in a grain silo and crushed. And then his mate fell in the slurry pit and drowned. Messy stuff.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

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boy plays chicken with virgin train travelling at > 100mph