Yesterday in Pittsburgh, in the daylight, a woman drove her van on o the NS tracks that go across a big bridge across the Ohio River. Not too many details on how far she got, how she got on to the bridge or why she went over the side and fell 70 feet in to the river. She was killed but her cat survived. Almost unbelievable how this stuff happens. A man witnessed it but not many details given.
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Everything that looks like a shortcut is not....a drunk or a druggie?*to
Or a bad GPS !! That bridge is not too easy to access. Ch.4 news in Pgh. says a little dog was found and thought to have been in the van. It was found and rescued and is OK. A video is shown of a very cute little dog. Really weird.
jim pastorius posted:Or a bad GPS !! That bridge is not too easy to access. Ch.4 news in Pgh. says a little dog was found and thought to have been in the van. It was found and rescued and is OK. A video is shown of a very cute little dog. Really weird.
Strange, every news outlet I've perused about this says it was a cat that was rescued, and KDKA's video certainly shows a cat. Certainly my sympathy in this event goes to the cat.
Another Darwin Award candidate! Cat looked a little woozy.
My bad, I should have written a cat AND a dog were taken out of the river. The cat is in bad shape or was. Mitch will be worried about the cat.
jim pastorius posted:Or a bad GPS !!
Yep, I know a guy who turned right on to RR right-of-way in the dark because his GPS told him to.
TrainsRMe posted:jim pastorius posted:Or a bad GPS !!
Yep, I know a guy who turned right on to RR right-of-way in the dark because his GPS told him to.
So, in the words of my late mother, "If EVERYONE jumped off the bridge, would you?", thus the GPS "told him to" is simply ridiculous!
Hot Water posted:So, in the words of my late mother, "If EVERYONE jumped off the bridge, would you?", thus the GPS "told him to" is simply ridiculous!
Clearly situational awareness was not present. You can never...ever rely on a GPS solely to get from point A to B.
GPS with no sense of direction is a creditable explanation. I was trying to find a Menard's in southern Indiana, that turned out to be visible from the Interstate, and got sent around the barn through all these residential subdivisions.
"RECALCULATING"
doug b posted:"RECALCULATING"
Don't watch much TV but saw a commercial which caught my attention, went something like this: "Not falling in love (recalculating) ... not having kids (recalculating) ..." Yup, things change!
Anyways, back to the original topic, we are shocked how the event could possibly have happened. But stupid stuff happens all the time, sometimes captured on video like this accident in Ashland, VA. Listen the news blurb, "another car hit by a train", then scroll down and play the second video. 
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