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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.legal,alt.flame
Subject: Re: The lawsuit of the year!
Keywords: about time, train engineer's revenge
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Date: 27 Jan 88 00:55:58 GMT
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In article <8801251537.AA01904@wheatena> wheatena!gsmith (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>... contentions such as the notion that Willson was unaware that
>trains are bigger than he is, and might be difficult to stop by
>muscle alone.

I think the notion implied was that Wilson was unaware that several
thousand tons of train moving at 16 mph couldn't stop in time to miss him,
not that he thought he could stop it with muscle power.

I expect he knows better, now.

Question:  Why didn't his fellow demonstrators, who did have the sense to
clear the track, forcibly drag him out of the way?

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