{"id":2340,"date":"2004-11-12T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2004\/11\/12\/idiot-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2004-11-12T15:03:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T15:03:40","slug":"idiot-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"idiot-of-the-week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat little scenario.  You&#8217;re walking on railroad tracks (are you insane??), and you suddenly hear the sound of a train coming from behind you.  What do you do?<br \/>\nWouldn&#8217;t any reasonble person jump out of the way?  Run?  Hell, wouldn&#8217;t you step off the track and let the train go by because they do seem to have pretty loud horns?<br \/>\nApparently, <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/11\/12\/legal_train_wreck.html%22\">this woman didn&#8217;t do anything<\/a>, and the poor thing was hurt.  I guess she didn&#8217;t know that train tracks carry trains, and you can get trampled if you don&#8217;t move out of the way!  And since she wasn&#8217;t informed of the dangers of walking on these tracks (hello, common sense!!), she&#8217;s now filed a lawsuit.<br \/>\nFrankly, I&#8217;m surprised she survived.  Having received such minor injuries maybe she was playing &quot;chicken,&quot; and she just doesn&#8217;t want to fess up.  As for her lawyer, <i>scum of the earth<\/i>.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.boingboing.net%22\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat little scenario. You&#8217;re walking on railroad tracks (are you insane??), and you suddenly hear the sound of a train coming from behind you. What do you do? Wouldn&#8217;t any reasonble person jump out of the way? Run? Hell, wouldn&#8217;t you step off the track and let the train go by because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}