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RE: OFT: But close to Re: Another warning label for therecord books...
Subject:RE: OFT: But close to Re: Another warning label for therecord books... From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:55:06 -0400
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> Subject: Re: OFT: But close to Re: Another warning label for
> therecord books...
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> Stopping on RR tracks... There are people whose hobby is
> railroads, either scale-model or full-scale. When some train
> hits an automobile at a grade crossing, railfans refer to the
> incident as, "The driver committed suicide in front of the
> train." They reject the notion that it is somehow the fault
> of the locomotive engineer for not stopping, or even of the
> railroad company for not providing signs or signals.
> "Expect," they say, "trains on ANY track in ANY direction at
> ANY time"...
>
I don't think that's specifically a "railfan" concept. Any decent
Driver's Ed manual should include those instructions.
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