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lgsp@feddit.it feddit.it Joined: 2023-06-07
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A red car on the rail track in a station

Source and additional pics:

https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772

Also from the same thread:

For people who aren't intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.

Edit: it looks like it was not "several miles" but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:

https://piefed.social/comment/11604144

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OhmsLawn lemmy.world OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
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I work for an MTA. This sort of thing happens all the time. People are crazy 🤣🤣🤣

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CompactFlax discuss.tchncs.de CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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#3 · Quote Reply

I work for an MTA. This sort of thing happens all the time. People are crazy 🤣🤣🤣

Car traps are good, but still close up the line. In this case though maybe the car would be recoverable. Now they need a crane.

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orbituary lemmy.dbzer0.com orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-14
#4 · Quote Reply

That's just baffling. I know our light rails, take it to Seatac whenever I travel. How the everliving fuck did that happen?

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Zombiepirate lemmy.world Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#5 · Quote Reply

That's just baffling. I know our light rails, take it to Seatac whenever I travel. How the everliving fuck did that happen?

Looking at the station makes it even crazier:

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Decq lemmy.world Decq@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#6 · Quote Reply

How, just how can you be this dumb? What's in the water over there? Murcery? Lead?

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Jo Miran lemmy.ml JoMiran@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-29
#7 · Quote Reply

Ah...Utah.

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rslogix89 lemmy.world rslogix89@lemmy.world
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#8 · Quote Reply

They’re just waiting for the train to push them into 1885.

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The_v lemmy.world The_v@lemmy.world
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#9 · Quote Reply

How, just how can you be this dumb? What's in the water over there? Murcery? Lead?

Mormonism.... Basically worse than all three.

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kittenzrulz123 lemmy.dbzer0.com kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-07-31
#10 · Quote Reply

I work for an MTA. This sort of thing happens all the time. People are crazy 🤣🤣🤣

An MTA, I'm pretty sure there's only one MTA (ok well technically there's two)

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atomicbocks sh.itjust.works atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-02-16
#11 · Quote Reply

Is there a right way to drive several miles on an elevated train track?

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surewhynotlem lemmy.world surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#12 · Quote Reply

40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES

Fuck. I'm honestly just impressed.

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lgsp@feddit.it feddit.it Joined: 2023-06-07
#13 · Quote Reply

Is there a right way to drive several miles on an elevated train track?

I guess that it means that train direction on that track was opposite... I don't think this makes this episode any worse 🤷‍♂️

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ruuster13 lemmy.zip ruuster13@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-09
#14 · Quote Reply

I zoomed in on the sign to see if this could be in Phoenix, as if there weren't trees precluding that possibility.

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Niquarl lemmy.ml Niquarl@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-05-06
#15 · Quote Reply

40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES Fuck. I'm honestly just impressed.

Wrong way too

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Niquarl lemmy.ml Niquarl@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-05-06
#16 · Quote Reply

Even better:

According to someone who was there and watched it happen, there were multiple people banging on her car windows trying to get her to stop. But she just kept going and going until THE LITERAL GROUND FELL AWAY leaving her car beached on the frame on top of the train tracks.

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Jake Farm sopuli.xyz Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-04-20
#17 · Quote Reply

She should prominently lose her license for this but this is America where that doesn't even happen if you kill people.

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Jake Farm sopuli.xyz Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-04-20
#18 · Quote Reply

Ah...Utah.

What? This is seattle, out light rail stations look nothing like this and none of them are elevated.

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Jake Farm sopuli.xyz Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-04-20
#19 · Quote Reply

Mormonism.... Basically worse than all three.

Ffs this is in Seattle, mormons might be dumb but even they don't deserve to catch strays like this.

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kungen feddit.nu kungen@feddit.nu
Joined: 2023-08-03
#20 · Quote Reply

What? This is seattle, out light rail stations look nothing like this and none of them are elevated.

Look at the plates.

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atomicbocks sh.itjust.works atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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#21 · Quote Reply

I guess that it means that train direction on that track was opposite... I don't think this makes this episode any worse 🤷‍♂️

I figured, I just couldn’t help trying to be funny.

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
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You know I could not imagine how this could happen but then I recall in my city on one line there is road level crossings twice near the end of the line. Actually there might be another line that has something similar that Im not sure if I have ever been on. That one is like a spur line that expands off the end of the line of one of the more major lines.

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Jo Miran lemmy.ml JoMiran@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-29
#23 · Quote Reply

What? This is seattle, out light rail stations look nothing like this and none of them are elevated.

The driver, or at least the plates, are from Utah.

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captainlezbian lemmy.world captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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#24 · Quote Reply

Even better: According to someone who was there and watched it happen, there were multiple people banging on her car windows trying to get her to stop. But she just kept going and going until THE LITERAL GROUND FELL AWAY leaving her car beached on the frame on top of the train tracks.

Willfully doing it does explain a lot

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captainlezbian lemmy.world captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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#25 · Quote Reply

Ffs this is in Seattle, mormons might be dumb but even they don't deserve to catch strays like this.

Utah plates though

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captainlezbian lemmy.world captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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#26 · Quote Reply

What? This is seattle, out light rail stations look nothing like this and none of them are elevated.

Utah has light rail?

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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#27 · Quote Reply

What the fuck is wrong with some people...

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GreenKnight23 lemmy.world GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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#28 · Quote Reply

She should prominently lose her license for this but this is America where that doesn't even happen if you kill people.

this is Utah. A hotbed of the dumbest most religiously conservative Americans. I would put Utah a degree below Florida on the dumbass scale.

FYI Utah is home of the church of the LDS cult, aka Mormons. it has some of the most fucked up child abuse documented in the country (and that's what's actually documented).

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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#29 · Quote Reply

Ah...Utah.

ConSIDer this... picture PERfect SWEET... sorROOOWWWOHHHohhhh...

Cause you've never been wrong before... never been wrong before... never been wrong before........

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Jake Farm sopuli.xyz Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz
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#30 · Quote Reply

Utah has light rail?

Yes UTA Trax system

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Jake Farm sopuli.xyz Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz
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#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

this is Utah. A hotbed of the dumbest most religiously conservative Americans. I would put Utah a degree below Florida on the dumbass scale. FYI Utah is home of the church of the LDS cult, aka Mormons. it has some of the most fucked up child abuse documented in the country (and that's what's actually documented).

One you are objectively wrong look up the station name, two if the FLDS and the LDS are the same then the black hebrew israelites are israelies

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GreenKnight23 lemmy.world GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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#32 · Quote Reply

One you are objectively wrong look up the station name, two if the FLDS and the LDS are the same then the black hebrew israelites are israelies

my mistake, it's Seattle.

but that car (and presumably the driver) is from Utah....the incorrigible cesspool of pedophiles and charlatans.

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msfroh lemmy.ca msfroh@lemmy.ca
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#33 · Quote Reply

my mistake, it's Seattle. but that car (and presumably the driver) is from Utah....the incorrigible cesspool of pedophiles and charlatans.

Or it's a rental car. I rented a car in the Seattle area with Nevada plates a couple of weeks ago.

I get the impression that rental car companies register cars in states with lower tab fees and then move them around the country. I wouldn't be surprised if registering in Utah is a lot cheaper than Washington.

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ooterness lemmy.world ooterness@lemmy.world
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#34 · Quote Reply

Even better: According to someone who was there and watched it happen, there were multiple people banging on her car windows trying to get her to stop. But she just kept going and going until THE LITERAL GROUND FELL AWAY leaving her car beached on the frame on top of the train tracks.

Focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will.

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AngryCommieKender lemmy.world AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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#35 · Quote Reply

They’re just waiting for the train to push them into 1885.

There were much better ways to do that, that Doc Brown would have known.....

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
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#36 · Quote Reply

40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES Fuck. I'm honestly just impressed.

Lucky she made it to a station.

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
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#37 · Quote Reply

Is there a right way to drive several miles on an elevated train track?

In a train.

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valtia lemmy.world valtia@lemmy.world
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#38 · Quote Reply

40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES Fuck. I'm honestly just impressed.

More like a quarter of a mile

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mojofrododojo lemmy.world mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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#39 · Quote Reply

She should prominently lose her license for this but this is America where that doesn't even happen if you kill people.

yeah driving up a 3 story tall incline (it's a very elevated station) should be grounds for repossessing their license.

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mojofrododojo lemmy.world mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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#40 · Quote Reply

Even better: According to someone who was there and watched it happen, there were multiple people banging on her car windows trying to get her to stop. But she just kept going and going until THE LITERAL GROUND FELL AWAY leaving her car beached on the frame on top of the train tracks.

LADY THERE IS NO VALET PARKING!

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
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#41 · Quote Reply

What the fuck is wrong with some people...

IKR?

You're supposed to take the tires off so the rails go in the grooves of the rim.

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mojofrododojo lemmy.world mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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#42 · Quote Reply

How, just how can you be this dumb? What's in the water over there? Murcery? Lead?

driver is from utah, not here. don't blame us for her crazy shit.

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
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#43 · Quote Reply

The transit authorities had to call for backup from the fashion police.

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msfroh lemmy.ca msfroh@lemmy.ca
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#44 · Quote Reply

An MTA, I'm pretty sure there's only one MTA (ok well technically there's two)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Transit_Authority

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benderbeerman lemmy.world benderbeerman@lemmy.world
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#45 · Quote Reply

Clearly, you can. But while you're busy wondering if you can, don't forget to stop and ask yourself if you should

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disregardable lemmy.zip disregardable@lemmy.zip
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#46 · Quote Reply

Has to be sleep-walking, drug use, or schizo-affective. I don’t see how else this happens to someone with a functioning mind.

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tomenzgg midwest.social tomenzgg@midwest.social
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#47 · Quote Reply

'Been waiting for Back to the Future IV.

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paranoia feddit.dk paranoia@feddit.dk
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#48 · (edited) Quote Reply

Idk about several miles, looks like a few hundred meters on a map.

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Decq lemmy.world Decq@lemmy.world
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#49 · Quote Reply

driver is from utah, not here. don't blame us for her crazy shit.

To be honest, I was talking much wider than the state of Washington.

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youmaynotknow lemmy.zip jjlinux@lemmy.zip
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#50 · Quote Reply

Has to be sleep-walking, drug use, or schizo-affective. I don’t see how else this happens to someone with a functioning mind.

Could be all 3 🤔

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craftrabbit lemmy.zip craftrabbit@lemmy.zip
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#51 · Quote Reply

What kind of test do you guys have to pass for a drivers license???

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