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Wedding between the lines
A train is hardly out of place on a railway line. It is, however, when it is made of white fabric and attached to the back of a wedding dress.
Network Rail has criticised the “plain stupidity” of a pair of newlyweds who decided to get their post-ceremony photographs taken on a set of live tracks.
The bride and groom posed near Whitby, North Yorkshire, renewing fears that social media is behind a surge in people trespassing on the railways.
Between June and last month people illegally went on to lines 5,100 times, according to figures from Network Rail, the equivalent of 42 incidents a day.
Last month 1,239 cases were recorded alone, the worst September in five years.
People are believed to have been using the railway as a backdrop for social media posts and wedding photographs during the lockdown while reduced services were operating.
They risk death or injury or at best a £1,000 fine.
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5100 incidents but has anyone held up a train or gotten run over?
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xoxoxoBruce wrote:
5100 incidents but has anyone held up a train or gotten run over?
This is a 2017 article from The Guardian:
Railway trespass figures reach new high, with 115 deaths in five years
Even if it doesn't result in a fatality, the effect on drivers can be marked.
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It's funny how this doesn't even look odd to me any more, but I know I would have been horrified when I was still in the UK. Here we have plenty of train tracks but hardly any trains use them and it's quite the norm to walk along the tracks
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Remember those PSA videos they used to show in the 70s = the one with the kids on the railway tracks?
That video scarred me for life 
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Brilliant! Bonus is that the third last to die looks like a certain Well-Known British Political Leader!
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Remember those PSA videos they used to show in the 70s = the one with the kids on the railway tracks?
That video scarred me for life
Would that be 'The Finishing Line'?
I'd quite forgotten about that until it came up in conversation with Sundae.
There's an excerpt of it here:
It was pretty graphic stuff when you consider that it was intended to be shown to children.
The whole film is available on the BFI website: The Finishing Line
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This is an awesome game! I think there's actually 2 versions now
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Like.
It just asked me if I was a robot.
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Remember those PSA videos they used to show in the 70s = the one with the kids on the railway tracks?
That video scarred me for lifeWould that be 'The Finishing Line'?
I'd quite forgotten about that until it came up in conversation with Sundae.
There's an excerpt of it here:
It was pretty graphic stuff when you consider that it was intended to be shown to children.
The whole film is available on the BFI website: The Finishing Line
The kid that got run over wasn't even in the top 10, and had no real effect on the outcome, so what's the problem?
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It was pretty graphic stuff when you consider that it was intended to be shown to children.
The lives and psyches of children were much cheaper in the 70s.
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Remember those PSA videos they used to show in the 70s = the one with the kids on the railway tracks?
That video scarred me for life
I only paid attention to what Charley said
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart
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My kids like this spoof version:
LOVE IT!
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Kind of hard to get lazier and stoopider than that........ yes the dood actually drove with the car like that. Got pulled over, though. Thank goodness.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart
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That is some bad citizenship.
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