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August 28, 2010

Man Struck By Irony of Situation, at 80mph
— Ace

Just a silly link from Drudge but kind of funny.

Amateur NC ghost hunter looking for 'ghost train' hit and killed by real train
STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) - A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.
The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.
...
"During the investigation, witnesses told deputies they were at the site in hopes of seeing a 'ghost train'," the Iredell County sheriff's office said in a press release.
The sheriff said the incident coincided with the anniversary of a train wreck that occurred at the same location in 1891.
Redmond said there were "12 people who were amateur ghost hunters caught on the trestle when the train rounded the bend" early Friday morning.

Moral? Get your head out of the clouds, Sparky, and look around, you dumbass.

Posted by: Ace at 07:59 AM | Comments (74)
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1 I think it won't get busy here for a bit yet

Posted by: beedubya at August 28, 2010 08:04 AM (AnTyA)

2 Wow, even we think that's really stupid.

Posted by: Darwin Award People at August 28, 2010 08:04 AM (XdlcF)

3 Why don't they look, Ralph? Tell me, why don't they look?

Posted by: Evil Otto at August 28, 2010 08:04 AM (xYAN3)

4 Next year we can ghosthunt for the ghosthunters? Kewl!

Posted by: nickless at August 28, 2010 08:05 AM (MMC8r)

5 Last words: "I see it! I see it! I'm having a real paranormal experi...."

Posted by: Gen. Sir Harry Flashman, VC at August 28, 2010 08:05 AM (ftsNF)

6 As a member in good standing of the head in the clouds cohort, this isn't really that funny. The man is dead.

Posted by: pep at August 28, 2010 08:05 AM (0K3p3)

7 Was there ... Weed involved?

Posted by: Paladin at August 28, 2010 08:06 AM (a+kMW)

8 Last words: Wow...that ghost train sounds real

Posted by: beedubya at August 28, 2010 08:06 AM (AnTyA)

9
The important thing is that he died doing what he loved to do.

Posted by: the captain's log at August 28, 2010 08:12 AM (dEw6Z)

10 Well, if there wasn't ghost train there before, there certainly is now.

Posted by: Phinn at August 28, 2010 08:12 AM (GiUTT)

11 Hunter becomes the Hunted.

Posted by: negentropy at August 28, 2010 08:12 AM (rSIJm)

12
Standing on train tracks is kinda like standing on a runway. They both can seem awful quiet, at times, but they're both there for a reason, which becomes apparent from time to time.

Posted by: the captain's log at August 28, 2010 08:15 AM (dEw6Z)

13 The guys name wasn't Shaggy was it?

Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 28, 2010 08:15 AM (xO+6C)

14
Funny thing about trains: You don't really hear them coming and they're moving a lot faster than they appear.

Posted by: the captain's log at August 28, 2010 08:16 AM (dEw6Z)

15
Common mistake people make is they think they'll hear the train coming and have plenty of time to get out of the way. Not so.

Posted by: the captain's log at August 28, 2010 08:17 AM (dEw6Z)

16 Iron-y. Heh.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at August 28, 2010 08:18 AM (fuw6p)

Legend has it, if you come around here on a frosty cold moonless night, you can still hear him calling out in the distance,

_{"WHERE'S MY TRAAAAAAAAIN???? WHERE'S MY TRAAAAAAAAAIN??????"}

Posted by: Cincinnatus at August 28, 2010 08:18 AM (8AyDn)

18 Mystery Train, anyone?

Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2010 08:21 AM (fOXc0)

Finally got back at those gol'darn meddlin' kids!

Posted by: Old Man Wickles at August 28, 2010 08:22 AM (k/CHx)

20 Common mistake people make is they think they'll hear the train coming and have plenty of time to get out of the way. Not so.

Posted by: the captain's log at August 28, 2010 12:17 PM (dEw6Z)

Not really that common.

Posted by: Guy With Actual Job Who Is At Home Sleeping At 2:45 a.m. Instead of Hanging Around Railroad Tracks W at August 28, 2010 08:23 AM (0pBLV)

21 Last words...Owww..fuck

Posted by: beedubya at August 28, 2010 08:25 AM (AnTyA)

22 Just think of all the people who are going to visit this place in the future, hoping to catch a glimpse of the ghost of the famous ghost-train-hunter who got himself killed, whose incorporeal spirit is now condemned to run away from trains until eternity.

And, they too will meet their sudden ends. And so on.

I could see this cycle continuing for quite some time.

Posted by: Phinn at August 28, 2010 08:26 AM (GiUTT)

Q: "And what was that last thing you recall going through your mind?"

A: "I think it was a headlight."

Posted by: Post Mortem Interviews at August 28, 2010 08:33 AM (0pBLV)

24 LOL, we used to have a guy at work from NC who talked about that "ghost train". It is a famous item.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2010 08:36 AM (/jbAw)

25 So, this ghost train... Darwin happen to be on board?

Posted by: Bill H at August 28, 2010 08:36 AM (q8CmE)

26 The last thing to go through his mind was....

Posted by: Old grizzled gym coach at August 28, 2010 08:39 AM (QBQcg)

27 Some guys specialize in finding "ghost eighteen-wheelers on the Interstate." Those careers end up being rather short, however.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 28, 2010 08:39 AM (AZGON)

28 "Hunting ghosts" or making them? A new legend is orn.

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at August 28, 2010 08:43 AM (rVGXt)

29 Physics: It's the Law.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 28, 2010 08:45 AM (Id8Tt)

30
woo hoo!
good news, everybody

the dvd-screener bootlegs of the expendables are available

Posted by: the captain's log at August 28, 2010 08:48 AM (dEw6Z)

31 Re was, ry riend.

Posted by: Scooby D. at August 28, 2010 08:48 AM (xO+6C)

32 Even we know enough to stay off the tracks when we attack, white eyes.

Posted by: Ghost Plains Indian Tribe at August 28, 2010 08:49 AM (0pBLV)

I hear the train acomin', it's commin' round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine.....

Quoth the raven "Nevermore"

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cash at August 28, 2010 08:51 AM (uTX0G)

34 Stop trying to ignore our new messiah with talk of ghost-hunting irony. It makes you look petty.

Posted by: Black Robe Regiment at August 28, 2010 08:52 AM (zNxf/)

35 This is why I do investigations from inside of a building, sitting in a chair, watching a TV screen. Irony cannot come after me.

Posted by: CAC at August 28, 2010 08:52 AM (Gr1V1)

36 #22 In about 10 years time the legend will be "if you go out on the tracks at about 3am you will hear a ghostly voice say "holy crap look at the ghost of the, wait what the fu" followed shortly there after by "holy crap look at the ghost of the guy who was lookign for the ghost of the guy who, wait what the fu" and so on. Amazing legend. Idiots doomed to walk the earth.

Posted by: CAC at August 28, 2010 08:54 AM (Gr1V1)

Like the old line..."At last, a light at the end of the tunnel!"

"No, you idiot, that's a train coming".

Posted by: HH at August 28, 2010 08:58 AM (6oDXl)

38 As a member in good standing of the head in the clouds cohort, this isn't really that funny. The man is dead.

Rain, parade... [some assembly required]

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 28, 2010 09:01 AM (SHKl9)

39 Last words: Huh. Well, look at that. I figured it would be more translucent and ethereal, you know?

Posted by: Warden at August 28, 2010 09:01 AM (fE6tn)

40 Scratch one Obama voter.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 28, 2010 09:01 AM (Flitx)

See? This is the shit I was talkin' about!

Posted by: Chuck Darwin at August 28, 2010 09:03 AM (Flitx)

42 Ghost train? I thought he said peace train. Dammit. I was listening for tambourines.

Posted by: Dead Peace Train Hunter at August 28, 2010 09:03 AM (D1Dp2)

43 When they were handing out brains he thought they said trains and asked for a slow one...

Posted by: CanaDave at August 28, 2010 09:04 AM (A8VBw)

44 We had a fellow ghost hunter nearly slip and fall 20 feet from a church attic because he didn't want to use a flashlight and "disturb" the spirits. Again, this is why I sit in a room with the Camcorder and TV for ITC. Adventurousness just gets you killed.

Posted by: CAC at August 28, 2010 09:05 AM (Gr1V1)

45 God hates dumbasses. It's in the bible.

Posted by: Warden at August 28, 2010 09:07 AM (fE6tn)

46 #45 Zachariah 1:34-35: "Ye, and the Lord did spot thine man who stood out in the lightningstorm with a metal staff, and his actions angered the Lord. And the Lord did smote him most awesomely."

Posted by: CAC at August 28, 2010 09:16 AM (Gr1V1)

47 Tragically, the great Train Crash of 1891 was cause by a group of folks who were searching for the 'Ghost Wagon of 1791'.
.

Posted by: gastorgrab at August 28, 2010 09:29 AM (T92yh)

48 #47 Who were in turn looking for the "Ghost Indian Canoe of 1391"

Posted by: CAC at August 28, 2010 09:31 AM (Gr1V1)

Last words:

"It looks so real."

Posted by: Hunter of Ghostly Trains. at August 28, 2010 09:33 AM (MNFrq)

50
We'll just report saying a bunch of WASP types had some sort of "protest/rally".

Posted by: MFM at August 28, 2010 09:45 AM (WHRS/)

51 Pardon me wrong tread.
Racist.

Posted by: MFM at August 28, 2010 09:46 AM (WHRS/)

52 The same will happen to many libtard congrASSmen in November. Metaphorically speaking.

Posted by: TexBob at August 28, 2010 09:51 AM (7cXE7)

53 .......................... DUR TUR DUR!!!

Posted by: Huh at August 28, 2010 10:01 AM (1EvB3)

54 Well now is really an amateur ghost.

Cool! Might be the way to go if you are a ghost hunter.

Posted by: NortonPete at August 28, 2010 10:40 AM (fVuwW)

#48, Who were in turn looking for the "Ghost Indian Canoe of 1391"

Who were in turn looking for the lost Viking of 657.

Posted by: Dead Peace Train Hunter at August 28, 2010 11:00 AM (D1Dp2)

56 WHOA.

Posted by: Zak Bagans at August 28, 2010 11:15 AM (jv481)

57 oh and walmart is cheap but, it is still a crisco covered freak show.

Posted by: joan, thread killer from hell at August 28, 2010 12:20 PM (RGWY2)

58 Not a ghost train a ghost maker train.

Posted by: Buffalobob at August 28, 2010 12:27 PM (aiDv5)

59 they did this ghost story on Fact Or Faked

Posted by: fartbubble at August 28, 2010 12:33 PM (gAmQ1)

60 Jokes on YOU, assholes! I'm sitting in the First Class car of the ghost train. YOU guys are going over the cliff with Obama! Who's the Dumbass, HUH??

Posted by: Zombie NC Amateur Ghost Train Hunter at August 28, 2010 12:33 PM (tJjm/)

61 9 The important thing is that he died doing what he loved to do. Posted by: the captain's log at August 28, 2010 12:12 PM (dEw6Z) He loved getting run over by trains?

Posted by: CoolCzech at August 28, 2010 12:34 PM (tJjm/)

62 Sounds like the reason why CNN hired some stringers in Washington to go to the Mall this morning.

Sounds like about the same result.

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at August 28, 2010 12:45 PM (mMcLI)

63 Who'd have thought Double Rainbow Guy would cash in like this ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 28, 2010 12:49 PM (XDeui)

64 That guy that was killed? His name was "Slow Poke" McGinty.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 28, 2010 01:53 PM (D1Dp2)

65 How about suggesting all your Obamaoid acquaintences organize a meetup down at the beach on the evening of November 2, to watch for the Ghostmaker Tsunami. I'm thinking they will not be disappointed.

Posted by: sherlock at August 28, 2010 02:32 PM (thr9V)

66 Ah, the life of a NC resident. Whenever NC makes the national news, it usually involves a Congressman attacking a kid with a camera, a breathless bigfoot sighting report from a highly intoxicated witness, another Democrat Party state government incumbent going to prison, and now... a Darwin Award shoe-in. If it weren't for collegiate basketball....

Posted by: Henry Hawkins at August 29, 2010 05:30 AM (1neAq)

67 oh,i see, keep a good work ,have a nice day!good guys!

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