How far was that from the crossing?This was a few weeks ago in North Austin.
Exactly the distance it takes a commuter train to stop from 45mph...How far was that from the crossing?
I grew up next to the tracks, could literally chunk rocks and hit the tracks from our driveway...I remember watching a northbound UP stop VERY fast. Sometimes they would stop and grab some bbq from Junek's Store down in Welborn, but this was fast and they had gone too far. I ran down to see what was up and sure enough a young female had music blaring and didn't look to cross the uncontrolled crossing, got smacked and died.According to my mother two of her aunts were killed when their car stalled on some tracks. They were pretty old when it happened.
Go figureThis was a few weeks ago in North Austin.
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Dang, sorry man...I lost 3 friends and co-workers in one train wreck. Truck and wire trailer got hung up on an unimproved crossing. Big fire. 3 closed casket funerals in one day.
We need a different topic.
Was she the Texas City Dyke?I was working for a company in NY and we hired this secretary. She had an amazing resume: college degree, spoke like 5 languages fluently, etc. She had just moved to the area because her husband's job moved there and her two kids were now old enough to go to school so she could go back to working. She was tall and thin - could have been a model a few years earlier, I suppose. There were some odd things that happened, but nobody really saw a problem. One day, her doctor (psych) calls and tells us she's flipped out and she's not going to be back to work. Normally he wouldn't call, but since she had some violent thoughts, he felt he had to warn us. Violent thoughts? Yeah, turns out that she specifically wants to kill me. What?!? Somehow I reminded her of her dead father and she hated him, so she had uncontrollable thoughts about killing me. Great.
Her husband came to pick up her personal items a week or two later and filled us in on the details. Apparently she was driving down the road and suddenly "woke up" to find herself in a random town 100 miles away with no idea how she got there. She contacted her shrink and he had her committed to a hospital and drugged up. She decided she no longer loved her husband and filed for divorce, and she didn't want anything to do with her kids. She hated everybody she had worked with and, for absolutely no real reason, still wanted to kill me. The husband and kids were devastated, to say the least.
About that time, one of our best clients came by for a meeting and he asked about the now missing secretary. My boss told him she had left, and the client said that since she was gone he felt he could confide something that had happened a month earlier. The client was in a meeting and excused himself to go to the restroom. No sooner did he start to relieve himself but this secretary came in and propositioned him. My boss asked why he didn't say anything at the time. The client replied, "Well, I wasn't sure if it was just a weird woman or if you were using her to try to get more business." My boss responded, "Oh, no! I wouldn't have done that! But, just for the sake of argument, would it have worked?"
One of my past jobs we had a similar situation unfold. They hired this woman, not even sure what her position was, but news quickly spread that she had a history of running to HR with claims people would sexually harass her. Someone in the office worked with her before at another company, and got the news out.Off the record we were warned she was very very sensitive to any and all forms of sexual harassment. Fact is she had filed numerous complaints over it. HR knew her well. ... in walks the decidedly unattractive ... Eventually management had enough and showed her the door.