MODESTO, Calif. — A Stanislaus County Sheriff's deputy parked his patrol car on railroad tracks, leading a train to hit it. The sheriff's office is now investigating the crash.
The crash happened around 4 a.m. Wednesday near the 400 block of E Street, north of 3rd Street, in the community of Empire, the sheriff's office said. A deputy was responding to a call of a woman and man arguing out loud.
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I lived in Empire for about 6 months before I went into the army, and had friends that lived there after I got out and was living in Riverbank City of Action, so I know the little town well.
Third Street does NOT cross the tracks, it just dead-ends there at them which means Dumb Fuck Deputy wasn't parked on the road crossing the tracks, he was parked on the actual tracks themselves. What's even worse is there's something like 5 sets of tracks there with a switching yard about a quarter mile to the south, which means the tracks are fairly busy night and day.
A Colorado cop cuffed a woman and put her in the back seat of his cap car, parked on railroad tracks. A train came by and smashed the car with her still in it. She got a big payday out of it, $8.5 million:
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Do you think he was trying to commit suicide, went for donuts and missed the train???
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Obviously they are not getting the brightest on the forse
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And the upside is that they did not arrest some woman, handcuff her in the car, and wait for the train to permanently injure her.
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Looking at Google Maps, we can guess what happened. Deputy Dim Bulb followed his GPS to "D St" which is across the tracks from "3rd St". Deputy Bulb was then too lazy (or too rushed) to reverse and go one block down to the nearby crossing at "2nd St". So Deputy Bulb cut across five raised train tracks to save 60 seconds. Sorta like the drunk driving scene in "Groundhog Day" only funnier.
ReplyDeleteI just looked at the map of that area - there ain't no way deputy dipshit 'parked' anywhere near there. He may have somehow driven onto the tracks and got stuck. But he certainly didn't 'park'.
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Love the wording - Sheriff's deputy parked his patrol car on railroad tracks, leading a train to hit it.
ReplyDeleteYup, that train homed right in on it and the patrol car sucked it right in!
What word order matters?
DeleteSo, "leading it to be hit by a train" is different? [Sarc-off]
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