When WILL people learn?!?!?!?!

[nachoman]

There must be something in human nature that makes people think it won't happen to them. I think I read that around here the other day a man was hit by a train while trying to put a penny on the rails. A few weeks ago, a woman got hit jaywalking across the street, when there was a crosswalk within 100 feet of where she was hit. I used to work next to light rail tracks, and am surprised I didn't see a pedestrian hit by a train. People would jaywalk across the street to McD's, and stop and stand on the tracks while they waited for the traffic to clear in the other direction. These werent kids or drunk homeless people, these were businessmen wearing suits and ties. It is unfortunate that it happens, but I don't lose sleep over people who die doing something that they elected to do. I will save my grief for the families of those individuals, or for the people who are caught in truly unfortunate situations.