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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: xbruby on November 23, 2007, 11:55:16 AM

Title: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: xbruby on November 23, 2007, 11:55:16 AM

I think you will all enjoy this, particularly if you haven't seen it before.

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Enjoy!

Andy

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: andy230 on November 23, 2007, 12:28:05 PM

Hee hee!!

Is it real? ie not staged??

It certainly relieves the monotony of wading thru screeds and screeds of DNA sequence today!

Sounds fun??  Trust me, its anything but!

a

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: guest24 on November 23, 2007, 07:02:01 PM

I went to work by train today and it wasn't like that. I must write a letter to network rail/ railtrack/ BR or whatever they are called and ask for my journey to be made a bit more exciting...just like that video.

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: Bill Rutter on November 23, 2007, 07:58:37 PM

You should have been on my 22:05 Gatwick Airport to Victoria on the 27th October when I had "one under" at Streatham Common. Nothing I could do at 70mph I'm afraid. I think the young lad was up to something when he decided to let a down train pass before crossing behind it. Unfortunately he'd completely forgotten that trains also come the other way! I just didn't see him in the glare
from the oncoming headlights.  I'm not looking forward to the inquest.

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: themoudie on November 23, 2007, 10:09:38 PM

Aye Bill,

Very sorry to read your tragic news.

I know it can't change anything but my thoughts are with you. I know of other people who are trying to come to terms with "Why?" their relative put themselves on the tracks.

My regards, Bill.

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: guest27 on November 24, 2007, 10:00:30 AM

Have a good friend who has been through that a few times - hope you are bearing up.

R

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: Steve Lake on November 25, 2007, 09:32:15 AM

Bu55er Bill, that's not good.....I guess we don't think of that as part of a drivers job description...probably happens far more often than the public realise.....it must screw you up for a while....a proper case for trauma counselling....do they offer you that?

good luck

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: Bill Rutter on November 25, 2007, 04:24:04 PM

Thanks boys. Steve, I was indeed offered councilling but in all honesty I looked upon it as "there was nothing I could do, I didn't know the chap and he really shouldn't have been where he was". So all in all I have tried to put it to the back of my mind. It's the thought of going to the inquest, finding out who he was and having to face his family that is my worry now. I hope it doesn't come to that. I did speak to a colleague who has had a fatality and he explained that if the Coroner is satisfied that there is nothing to be gained from an in-depth investigation I shouldn't be called. I hope this is the case.

Title: Re: Nothing to do with Thumpers but ......
Post by: guest7 on November 25, 2007, 09:01:14 PM

Sorry to hear about that mate.

I can't imagine what it must be like to have that happen, but as you say, he was where he shouldn't be.

GC