Trains, Trains, and Train-o-mobiles

I love Trains. I always have. I group up around trains. Was my Father a conductor? No. But we had a healthy supply of Thomas the Tank Engine. You know, that show about the possessed trains. My favorite was Percy.

And I'm pretty sure James was a communist.

I live in New York City now which means I take the Subway a lot, and I really like out. I don't know why everyone complains. Do you miss driving? Driving absolutely sucks, so sit on the subway and shut up. (If you read that last sentence three times fast it sounds like "Shit on the subway and shut up" which I don't recommend actually doing.).

However last week I saw a sign on the subway that said "Be Careful, last year 144 people were hit by subway cars and 55 of them died." Now 1 Billion people ride the subway ever year. So the amount of people getting hit is 0.000000144 %. 

Here's that number as a graph.

The fact that only 55 out of 144 people are dying after being hit by a train is AMAZING. Trains aren't scary anymore. Trains were the bad guys of the late 1800s. When the Lumiere brothers showed their film "The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station" people ran out of the room because they thought the Train was going to kill them. 

I'M COMING FOR YOU!

Trains aren't scary anymore. The last time a train was scary was when you and three of your friends were going to see a dead body in the woods and you're crossing a train bridge when a train comes and the fat kid keeps falling down and he can't run that fast and Wil Wheaton can't push him fast enough and OH GOD THE HUMANITY!