If you’re in prison long enough it starts to feel like home. Same thing.

Raph, buddy, you’re doing the wrong kinds of drugs if you think that hideous thing looks remotely good.

“ticking time bomb that can potentially burn down my house, with my family’s dead bodies in it.”

Kind of a funny transition from “snorting what appeared to be cocaine from a plastic bag” to “The FAA believes part of the problem may be that passengers are getting drunk on to-go alcohol at airport concession stands prior to boarding.”

At least you didn’t lay on the horn. Buddy of mine in college did that while they were poking around. It didn’t end well for him. Canadian jails aren’t that nice, it turns out. They held him for the weekend, then let him go with a “get the fuck out of this country and don’t even think about coming back” warning.

The second they start to ask I just step over and present hands, at this point I’d probably look confused if I didn’t get pulled aside in the U.S., overseas just get the usual scrutiny everyone else gets. At this point it really would feel weird to walk through a TSA line and not get stopped for anything.

No horror stories, no super nice ones either, just plain humorless encounters. Only annoyance is the “randomly” getting swabbed for explosives by TSA every single time I go through security, spouse gets a pat down half the time but I’m always pulled aside and swabbed. We find our luggage has also frequently been search…

My Dad is a retired railroader too, but was a track worker and then managed them as well as has had to deal with some of the aftermath of these incidents, what you’ve described is dead on for what he has been through as well.

Rocket science IS easier than self driving.

Suicide by train is very much a thing. I guess people know that the train isn't going to be able to stop and they assume that it will be quick. Thinking about the driver or those with the grim job of cleaning up afterwards isn't sadly top of their priorities.

Yeah. I had a friend that, after a few years working construction, decided he wanted to be an engineer. Did the schooling, got hired with CN Rail, did his ‘apprenticeship’ etc, all without issue. First haul as lead, up in northern BC, he watches a guy walk out of the woods about 1/2 mile ahead of the train, climb the…

Lifelong boater here with experience in every drive configuration multiple times over, including sailing (former coach), and windsurfing. I even have a slip on the lake in this article, Minnetonka.

This. This and this and this again.

...and the captain can stretch their legs out.

Thanks.  That’s what I meant by duck down, is avoid the windshield.

Modern PWCs have brakes, neutral start and off throttle steering. Honestly I think Seadoo was the first for all these. They accomplish with the digital throttle and flaps in the water and over the jet.

Being part of a railroad family I can assure you that trains hitting tractor trailers, cars, and people (routinely) is an unfortunate fact of the job. The reality that the video doesn’t show is the engineer on the floor of the locomotive praying to God that this isn’t there last moment on earth and thinking about…

I am pretty sure all the local newspapers could just re-print a story with the date changed every year “Dream Cruise is back and Locals Are Frustrated.” The interview questions and answers are always the same, just change the names. Now that the cruise is getting close to 30 years on, unless you have lived there for a…

This. So much. I broke and dislocated my thumb and index finger on my right hand about 6 years ago because of some fucked up lacing on a conveyor belt. The laces caught my heavy leather glove and sucked my hand in between the drive drum and belt. There was no “big red emergency stop button” on the machinery at all,…