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**Snrub**

This idiot!

Woman dies having sex on railway tracks

The accident took place in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia early on Saturday.

"Returning from our friends', my girlfriend and I could not overcome our passionate nature and wanted to feel a sense of thrill near a railway track," a police statement quoted the 41-year-old man as saying.

A police spokesman separately said on Sunday that the pair was believed to have been drunk.

The woman died on the spot while the man was hospitalised with his legs torn off below the knee.

Police did not release the names of the victims, saying it had opened a criminal probe over the safety violation.

News article here

**motyak**

Snrub wrote:

Police did not release the names of the victims, saying it had opened a criminal probe over the safety violation.

Thats pretty unfair if it means the train driver (conductor?) gets in trouble, I mean seriously, who would expect to come across that during the night on the railway lines?

**Grey Templar**

Question:

If he had died and she had remained alive, and later had a baby conceived as a result of this, would he no longer qualify?

**Jihadin**

Can't imagine how much alcohol they had to have drank to not notice the train.

**Krellnus**

Snrub wrote:
This idiot!

Woman dies having sex on railway tracks

The accident took place in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia early on Saturday.

"Returning from our friends', my girlfriend and I could not overcome our passionate nature and wanted to feel a sense of thrill near a railway track," a police statement quoted the 41-year-old man as saying.

A police spokesman separately said on Sunday that the pair was believed to have been drunk.

The woman died on the spot while the man was hospitalised with his legs torn off below the knee.

Police did not release the names of the victims, saying it had opened a criminal probe over the safety violation.

News article here

Damn humanity, you scary.

**Relapse**

Jihadin wrote:
Can't imagine how much alcohol they had to have drank to not notice the train.

In my hometown back in the 60's we had three guys get killed sleeping on the tracks.

**Snrub**

motyak wrote:
Thats pretty unfair if it means the train driver (conductor?) gets in trouble, I mean seriously, who would expect to come across that during the night on the railway lines?

Yeah it'd seriously suck if the driver got hauled over the coals for "not noticing" two people going at on the tracks at night.

**d-usa**

The criminal probe might be against the survivor, maybe trespassing or something like that.

**Snrub**

Hmm good point. Drunk people are known for their inadvertent tresspassing.

**Alex Kolodotschko**

Most likely the safety violation will be to do with incorrect upkeep/use of fences and gates surrounding the track?

**Grey Templar**

Do they even have fences surrounding the railway tracks?

I know most of the tracks I've seen never had fencing except in a very few areas.

**d-usa**

Maybe a criminal charge for sex in public and the white naked behind the train driver had to look at...

**MrMoustaffa**

Technically, you can't win the Darwin award if you're still capable of reproduction.

if the man only lost his legs, he merely gets an honorable mention for trying.

The woman definitely succeeded however.

**Steve steveson**

Grey Templar wrote:
Do they even have fences surrounding the railway tracks?

I know most of the tracks I've seen never had fencing except in a very few areas.

Depends on the country. In the UK most track that is accessible by the public has some form of fence or steep banks and thick hedges and trees. Enough to stop two drunk people accidentally wandering on to the track. This is in the Ukraine, so who knows.

In this case I would guess it is either the man or possibly they will be looking at weather there is appropriate measures in place to prevent people accidentally wandering on to the track.

**master of ordinance**

Yeah, im with Moustaffa, only the woman gets the Darwin award, the man still has his genitals intact.
So, what the hall possessed them into thinking that the best place to have sex was on a rail line in the first place? I mean ive been drunk before but never that bad.

**chromedog**

motyak wrote:
Snrub wrote:

Police did not release the names of the victims, saying it had opened a criminal probe over the safety violation.

Thats pretty unfair if it means the train driver (conductor?) gets in trouble, I mean seriously, who would expect to come across that during the night on the railway lines?

It's not uncommon for the rail corridor to be fenced off here in my state.
Other states it isn't so common (it's rare in Victoria for example).

And that's just in Australia.

Also, down here, the drivers are immediately put on leave (full pay) after an incident. Many do not return to driving trains.

**Grey Templar**

What about where it crosses roads?

You can't exactly fence off the tracks there.

**Snrub**

chromedog wrote:It's not uncommon for the rail corridor to be fenced off here in my state.
Other states it isn't so common (it's rare in Victoria for example).

And that's just in Australia.

Also, down here, the drivers are immediately put on leave (full pay) after an incident. Many do not return to driving trains.

It's becoming more common around melbourne now to have fenced off tracks. Inner city is either all underground or above street level, or if at street level is heavily fenced off.

Grey Templar wrote:What about where it crosses roads?

You can't exactly fence off the tracks there.

That's what boomgates are for.

**chromedog**

Boom gates (road) and gates with fenced off areas for the peds on the footpaths (with a bypass gate should you get across the track but not out of the maze before the gates go down).

Whilst yes, this DOES mean that you could get onto the tracks by waiting for the gates to go up and then going off the footpath or road and onto the tracks ... doing so would be an offence often punishable by death (survivors get fined).