home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.culture.oregon      Meh, I hear Portland is a tad overrated      6,995 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 5,156 of 6,995   
   Lobby Dosser to gatt   
   Re: portland drivers are moronic fools   
   07 Jul 06 07:46:59   
   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   "gatt"  wrote:   
      
   > For the life of me, I just can't fathom how somebody can miss the fact   
   > that an object bigger than a friggin' building is coming at them.  The   
   > explanation on the news is that there were TWO tracks and trains going   
   > in opposite directions. Must have been my public education and all,   
   > but I still remember learning in the first grade, in GULFPORT,   
   > MISSISSIPPI, to look both ways before crossing streets or the tracks.   
   >   
      
   Stop sign only. North bound freight cleared the crossing on the eastern   
   track - closest to the car. Car starts across west bound and unable to see   
   around the freight to the south bound Amtrack on the western track. Zero   
   time for anyone to do anything - car or train.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca