GHost Hunters, don't try this at home, you might get hit by a train.

[vontar]

I don't watch TAPS because well, I don't believe in GHOSTS.

However, they need to include a don't try this at home if similar tag line with their show if they don't have one. Seems people tried to go ghost hunting and well if there are ghost they may have created another one.

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A ghost hunter in North Carolina was walking along the supposedly haunted train tracks on a 100-metre long trestle when an oncoming train struck and killed him.

Ghost train hunter run over by actual train | Weird | News | Toronto Sun

[Guest m&pc9]

His last words " I see the ghost train"

[Il Duce]

Be a dumbass get dumbass results.

[bubbiesdad]

If there wasn't a ghost before, there will be now.

[vontar]

If there wasn't a ghost before, there will be now.

The ghost train now has a passenger

[Guest m&pc9]

[Guest Jamie]

GHost Hunters, don't try this at home, you might get hit by a train.

I don't have to worry about trying that at home...

There's no train tracks running through my house or property.

[TGO David]

Shouldn't have walked into the light.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Shouldn't have walked into the light.

Probably should have... but didn't see that one coming. Then again, that guy probably didn't see it coming either.

Yeah, I know... my joke was worse. I'm leaving now.

BTW... how the **** do you NOT see a train coming, hear it coming, or... not get the **** out of the way???? (i.e. BEFORE it gets to you)

[Guest Jamie]

BTW... how the **** do you NOT see a train coming, hear it coming, or... not get the **** out of the way???? (i.e. BEFORE it gets to you)

Well... maybe a lot of this had something to do with it?

[strickj]

Welp, since we're all telling bad jokes....

Do you know what the last thing that went through that guy's mind was?

His ass

[Guest Jamie]

His ass

Or... the train's front bumper?

( Or whatever a train engine has that passes for a front bumper... )

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Well... maybe a lot of this?

All that did was remind me I have a bottle of Woodford Reserve waiting for me in the kitchen.

And there are train tracks behind my house... ohnoes!

[Guest Jamie]

JUST DON'T GO INTO THE LIGHT!!!!

( unless it's the one in the fridge and you're lookin' for a snack )

[Guest Verbal Kint]

This thread had great potential if someone in that ghost hunting crowd would have had a vid camera. Would have given the dumbass in the street dancing with the ice cream truck a run for his money.

[Il Duce]

Now you see me now you dont

[TGO David]

100 meter long trestle would be a pretty good clip to run. Worst case scenario, he was right in the middle, 50yds from either end. And depending on how the "floor" of it was constructed, it may have been pretty open with lots of space between the ties. He should'a jumped.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

100 meter long trestle would be a pretty good clip to run.

This is where motivation factors in. Pretty damn sure there was some.

[vontar]

here we go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8gysRf9z7A

[Guest Verbal Kint]

I actually thought of that movie when I read the story.

[vontar]

Here we go.

I would like to thing had I been dumb enough to have been there, I would have got smart quick and jumped or hung over the side of the bridge.

I know I did some dumb things when I was younger. I have walked around allot of train trestles and they are not generally easy to walk on.

We generally knew the train schedule there though since it only run once a day.

However in college I did walk though a train tunnel a few times, but we knew there were man holes on the sides about every 30 feet you could stand in if needed to let a train past.

However I don't think I would do that again either.

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EDIT, I just noticed my posted above took. I had accidental hit back on IE and lost what I typed and thought I had not posted anything.

[Guest boatme99]

Go to the light!

[Guest Abominable_Hillbilly]

statesville, nc - Google Maps

Jump where?

Three lite engines heading eastbound. It's odd to me how this fool didn't see the train, and how the train crew couldn't get stopped. Someone didn't see someone else, or they completely misjudged that someone's location in relation to the foul of the train.

[Punisher84]

I actually thought of that movie when I read the story.

I thought of this...

Ghostbusters 2 in case you don't get it.