10-01-2010, 08:18 PM
poliss Wrote:It's such a shame these days that you can't run events where several spectators can get killed or maimed. It's soooo amusing about what happened in 1896 isn't it tetters.
Don't get me wrong, its a amusing in a tragic kinda way. No body thought, "Hmmm, lets see, so the plan is to ram two locomotives into each other at top speed charged with hot furnaces and steam filled pressurized boilers and a whole whack spectators around to watch the ensuing carnage take place...what could possibly go wrong?"
The historical value of the account of the event is priceless though. You'd never get an idea like that off the ground these days because for one, nobody in their right mind would insure you!
