claw bar posted:uh...…what is a "foamer" and will I recognize one when I see it ??
claw bar posted:uh...…what is a "foamer" and will I recognize one when I see it ??
GG1 4877 posted:
Maybe I missed something, but did anyone actually look at the people in the photos? Doesn't look like young people to me.
I agree that safety around railroads is an important topic. I spent my early teen years getting into way too much trouble on railroad property. Was it wrong then. Absolutely! How many of us can say the same thing though? I suspect most of us.
Yes a different era where personal responsibility meant something, but in the photos shown in the article, other than trespassing on railroad property as Tom mentions, I don't see anything particularly out of line. The platforms along the regional stops on the NE corridor are fairly narrow and the yellow stripe / truncated domes are about the same distance from the track as the closest people shown in these photos. Trains blow by at 100 mph plus all the time.
Perhaps it is a Monday at the office and I missed some obvious sarcasm in the thread?
My original was tongue in cheek, both that the UK made such a big deal out of this , and also that usually we hear from voices on here about how the young of today are no good, back in the day we were all angels, our parents were gods, etc...with the obvious reference that the 'miscreants' in the picture were a product of those 'better times" *lol*...my post was not meant to be serious, in other words. My comment on people and times is that times change, but people end up reacting the same way, I am sure when Guttenberg invented moving type that allowed for cheaper books, people complained of the young people reading books rather than doing their chores, when they re-invented the indoor privy there were those decrying 'weakening' people by not having to go outdoors, the telephone was (sometimes literally) the "Devil's electronic Trumpet", etc, etc, etc......not to mention that over the current roughly 7,000 years of written language we have access to, almost every one of those has (then current) accounts saying newer generations were lax, a disaster area, spoiled, blasphemous, disrespectful to their elders, only caring about (you name it), etc.
