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Chicken?
@ Thursday, 10. Jan, 2008 – 08:18:54
Are you chicken?
Want to prove you’re not afraid of a big, bad and very messy death?
Become a part of the latest craze...
Stand on a railway line and wait for a speeding inter-city express train, then dive out of the way with just a second or two to spare avoiding being splattered all over the front of the 80 tonne loco and its train of carriages... what an absurd way to prove your manhood!
Young men have always undertaken tasks to prove themselves; in the modern world some of these tasks are undoubtedly stupid.
The rites of passage demand young men prove themselves, although I’ve never really understood why in a so called civilised society.
It is perhaps easier to understand an aspiring young hunter pitting himself against his first wolf, bear or lion, but to risk life and limb by pitting yourself against a high speed train is nothing less than crass stupidity.
For god’s sake, let’s stamp out this idiocy before the death toll grows too high.
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