Posted by Radical_Ed The man may have not been stupid, but his actions were born of stupidity when knowing the risk involves possible loss of life.
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How many times have you been floating in midair Ed?
Lol, yeah he acted rather rash.
When I -drove- off that train I jumped, sober, it was going between 25-35 mph. A quick ride I thought when I first got on it was moving about 2 mph. Didn't think it would pick up as much speed as it did and didn't want to walk or thumb an extra 7+? miles when it did finally slow down.
So it's on a slight downhill grade picking up more speed every minute. There's about 6 inches of fresh snow of the ground. There's trees and heavy brush beyond the RR right away. Was worried if I jumped and rolled I smack into a tree or get bounced under the train...so seeing all that soft snow there I decided to dive off the lowest rung of the boxcar ladder head first and belly land on the snow. I realized too an unseen stump or piece of metal could fillet me proper. Lol, look hard, look good, god the last rung is high... and weeeeeee!
Landed soft, proper, and slide through the snow without even getting a bruise... that was fun, dumb, and scary.
Too fucking funny.
Better to be the one that got away... RIP to those that didn't.