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 #289035  by Robert Gift
 
GN 599 wrote: an engineer friend of mine ''killed'' three teens racing home from high school. ...Sometimes when out in public people would call him "murderer'' or a ''killer''. It was awful.
As a MED-Stat paramedic, I hope you will help him realize there are dolts who will unjustly blame him rather than rightly blame the teens who were responsible for their actions and, sadly, deaths. Opinions of such morons should be ignored.
As intelligenteen-agers, we had fun SAFELY! We did not ride with or tolerate anyone who wastupid and unsafe.
South of Littleton, Colorado, a boy driving his well-to-do parents' nice Suburban decided to scare his teen passengers.
He accelerated in front of a coal train, but failed to consider thextra
load of the many passengers. The engine may have hesitated.
Several were killed by his stunt.
Accident or stupidity, it was not the engineers fault.
What shame to delay a train for so long, but glad they found the head of the suicide.