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I feel sorry for the engineer of the Amtrak train, and also the deceased kids' parents who probably had no idea their kids could be so stupid as to do something like that. 
Wow... that may the most imbecilic "game" ever conceived.
Well, at least they now know what a true "ghost train" is. 
Stupid is as stupid does!
Originally Posted by Jerry Nolan:
I feel sorry for the engineer of the Amtrak train, and also the deceased kids' parents who probably had no idea their kids could be so stupid as to do something like that.
I believe the parents stated that they knew the girls had done this before. I guess there is a reason there are 6.8billion of us.
Last line of the article:
"Akers told the Post-Dispatch that parents of the victims said the girls had played the game before."
I never heard of this "game". I must have had a deprived childhood.
Just plain stupid.
What a waste of human life.
Back when I was a teen, I used to fog-up the windows of my car whenever possible, but it sure had nothing to do with playing chicken with a train! 
What a waste over such a stupid game....
It has an awful lot to do with age.....when all of us were young we would take risks that we would never take now. The more these girls did this and got away with it the less dangerous it seemed, I'm sure. Now all of thier friends and families get to live with the consequences.
My brother had friends when I was little that used to wait for a train and would run across the tracks and back to see if they could make it. They did it until one of them got hit and killed on the way back and they never did it again. I was only 5 and I still remeber hearing the story.
Every parent's worst nightmare.
Unbelievable!! Is all I can say about a stupid game!
Sounds much like car surfing that the teens do down here in Florida.
Car surfing is just what it sounds like, standing up on the roof of a moving car and going up to 70mph! Don't know how they start the car surfing procedure, but know it can be Fatal!
Lee F.
I,m sorry, but Amtrak, and maybe UP should sue the PARENTS for NOT PARENTING, and the damage to rail equipment and from trains waiting!
PARENTS are RESPONSIBLE for their CHILDREN and THEIR ACTS until 18!
What a waste.
And yes I have done some really stupid things in my time but this.. should not even be called a game.
Train 'Games' not just for kids any more?
It's a shame two lives were snuffed out and several others are changed forever. If any of you never did anything dumb when you were young, you led a very sheltered life. I know I did, like joining the Army. I know a lot of guys who rode motorcycles and didn't make it out of their teens. Yet a lot of older guys still get on their Harleys and get wiped out, I see it in the paper almost every day. Only with age comes wisdom, then sometimes not.
Yes that is a shame. We all do stupid things and get hurt, but doing something potentially deadly is just plain idiotic!
(ok sorry for this but I found it really funny!)
"I'm not saying we should kill stupid people.... I'm just suggesting we remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out."
Originally Posted by Lenny the Lion:
Which is why Darwin Awards are not given for railroad-related accidents. Nobody doing other stupid acts would ever get a chance of winning!
Lee
