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Why is that useful? Who is able to shoot at a train without being able to either board it or spawncamp a station? Are cars and buses tested against that standa
by geofft 8y ago
Why is that useful? Who is able to shoot at a train without being able to either board it or spawncamp a station?
Are cars and buses tested against that standard? (Certainly bikes, ferries, streetcars, and pedestrians are not required to pass this test.)
- ceejayoz 8y agoMaybe it's a good analog for things like debris or gravel being thrown by another passing train? Or rocks thrown from a bridge?
- walrus01 8y agoAnecdotally, people shoot 737 fuselages in transit by rail from Wichita, Kansas to the assembly plant in Renton, WA all the time. Boeing has a specific process for inspecting them when they arrive and patching them up. There's a lot of very rural railway in between the two locations.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoOld interesting thread about this: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276419 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276419
- wahern 8y agoAs someone who grew up in the Deep South, I'm inclined to think it's useful for exactly what it's tested for. (At least, once upon a time.) I'm reminded of a Usenet post I read in the '90s from an Army helicopter technician who expressed his frustration at ranchers shooting at the "black helicopters"; the technician spent too much of his time (i.e. > 0) patching the holes.
- hudibras 8y agoPeople take potshots at trains in the Midwest and West all the time. Bored teenagers with .22 rifles, mostly.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoPassenger trains? If so, does this happen as often for highways? If not, why not?
- microcolonel 8y agoVariation on the Michigan pastime of dropping heavy objects from motorway overpasses so that they hit motorists' windshields.
- jimjimjim 8y agoarrest them. simple. discharging a firearm at people.
- simonh 8y agoHow about just thinking about the problem blew for just one second. Were putting you in charge of arresting children pot shooting trains in the Midwest along about a hundred thousand miles of rural train track. You need to come up with a system for reliably detecting hits on any part of any train (or they will aim for areas hard to detect), anywhere on a journey and immediately notifying nearby law enforcers to converge on the location before the miscreants can get away from the area. Oh, and the system has to be simple (a criterion you set for yourself), and has to be able to distinguish hits from gravel kicked up by other passing trans or the train itself. I’m sure you worked all that out before posting and you think it’s obvious, but please enlighten those of us not as bright.
- jimjimjim 8y ago
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