Stupid Bumper Sticker of the Day: "I Brake for Trains"
Stupid? That seems like pretty sound judgement.
Of course it's sound judgement! It's common freakin' sense to stop for a train. What do you think you're going to accomplish by not stopping for a train?
Getting to your destination quicker?
No. If you don't stop when a train is moving in front of you, you will stop by way of the train. In a collision between your car (and I don't really care what kind of car you drive) and a train, the train will win. Guaranteed!
Okay but maybe...
NO! Never nuts around with trains! They're big and will mess you up! The average freight train weighs 6000 tons. Trains in some parts of the world can approach 200 miles per hour. Put those two numbers together, and you have an incredible amount of force.
Freight trains don't travel 200 miles per hour.
That is so not the point! Did you know that more people died in train accidents last year than bowling accidents, Blogging Accidents, and Bird Flu COMBINED!
Where did you get this information?
I made it up to sound scary.
That's what I thought. Ever consider that Bumper Sticker Boy meant he just likes model trains?
Well...no. But if the one message he wants to send to the world is that he has a thing for toy trains, he's got a whole new set of issues.
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