Even got an upskirt video of the Amtrak train as it rushed by on the "train tracks", tu.
Snippy's really (really, really) impressed.
Uke said
1:12 PM, 04/14/13
Bob Pines, AKA:Missouri would beg ta differ... His extensive knowledge of trains, train operations, and the killers behind the controls of the killer trains, would point out that this particular train more than likely jumped the tracks to target, then kill Austin! Forget all this because Pines knows!
"Boys at the school frequently played chicken with trains, according to Olympia Pereira, 16, a friend of Austin's since sixth grade.
"Theyplayed all the time," she said. "It was just a game.""People won't be by the tracks anymore,"
16yearold Tania Montes added softly. Tania said she had been good friends with Austin
-- Edited by Uke on Sunday 14th of April 2013 01:14:30 PM
Hated the chicken players:
Teen dies playing chicken with train
Vivian Ho
Updated 8:31 pm, Friday, April 12, 2013
Austin Price was a sweet and caring 15yearold boy, the type who was quick to pay compliments and always asking how others were
faring, his friends said.
He was the kind of boy who liked to make people laugh, who would be late for class because he was picking up a friend.
In short, Austin Price was the type of boy who would have been comforting his friends and classmates at San Lorenzo High School on
Friday had it not been for him that they grieved.
The Hayward youth was struck and killed by a northbound Capitol Corridor train when he failed to leap out of its way in time while
playing a game of chicken with two other boys on the tracks near his school about 6 p.m. Thursday, police said.
The two other teens weren't hurt, said Alameda County sheriff's Deputy April Luckett.
Many at the San Lorenzo school said the entire community walks near the train tracks, but students in particular hang around them
often and Principal Tovi Scruggs said that is a constant worry. Signs on the fence separating the tracks and the school warn students
not to tread too close: "It's trespassing," they read. "It's dangerous. It isn't worth it."
"It's an ongoing concern," the principal said. "Tragedies don't happen frequently, but we know the tracks are not staying empty."
Many boys play chicken
Boys at the school frequently played chicken with trains, according to Olympia Pereira, 16, a friend of Austin's since sixth grade. "They
played all the time," she said. "It was just a game."
"People won't be by the tracks anymore," 16yearold Tania Montes added softly. Tania said she had been good friends with Austin
since fifth grade.
All day long Friday, a solemn air hung over the campus and its 1,500 students. Girls carried tissue boxes around campus, their eyes red
and dazed. A large sign hung in the main courtyard reading, "Austin, we'll miss you." Teachers displayed photos of Austin, who was
a sophomore.
The school held several moments of silence in Austin's honor, and grief counselors were on hand to offer support.
"He was a good person one of those good people you come across every day," Olympia said. "He genuinely cared."
Olympia, Tania and a group of friends gathered on a bench at the school Friday, laughing quietly at their memories of Austin. They said
he dressed as if he didn't care what people thought of him, but he was always shaking out the shoulderlength hair he had been growing
out since last year, friends said.
Had Austin been there Friday, he would have been late for class, his friends said, because he would be swinging by Tania's home to walk
with her to school. He'd be wearing a hat and sagging shorts and "telling people they were beautiful," said friend Tijara Francis, 15.
'Life is precious'
Tijara said Austin's sudden death made her look at her life a little differently.
"It makes me feel like I take life for granted, that I'm wasting time," she said. "I don't want to do that anymore."
Principal Scruggs echoed that sentiment as she walked back onto campus after speaking with Austin's family Friday.
"Life is precious," she said.
San Francisco Chronicle staf writer Henry K. Lee contributed to this report. Vivian Ho is a San Francisco Chronicle staf writer. E
Snippy's astute, incisive observation gets right to the heart of the matter. Must have had a cup of coffee already.
Watch it quick, before it disappears, I think there's a bunny rabbit there, too, at about the :40 mark.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9062821
Snippy's really (really, really) impressed.
Bob Pines, AKA:Missouri would beg ta differ... His extensive knowledge of trains, train operations, and the killers behind the controls of the killer trains, would point out that this particular train more than likely jumped the tracks to target, then kill Austin! Forget all this because Pines knows!
"Boys at the school frequently played chicken with trains, according to Olympia Pereira, 16, a friend of Austin's since sixth grade.
"Theyplayed all the time," she said. "It was just a game.""People won't be by the tracks anymore,"
16yearold Tania Montes added softly. Tania said she had been good friends with Austin
-- Edited by Uke on Sunday 14th of April 2013 01:14:30 PM
http://utu.org/2013/04/02/at-l-a-motorcycle-show-this-knucklehead-is-tops/
Los Angeles Metro bus operator Howard Tree Slayton proudly displays his
award-winning motorcycle on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles.