Unbelievable!. This guy/girl had to be hauled out of the way…needs a hearing test as well!!..
Amazingly…he/she appears totally unconcerned someone has just saved them serious injury…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaOOOryQc7U
Meanwhile…back at the UK ranch we have this …some people should never be allowed out on their own!!
That’s more or less the normal behaviour of at least one (if not more) moron(s) at any of those events. Completely clueless!
However there is one more item that amazes me in those videos: where is the crowd control? Similar events in TGWN have plenty of RR police and off duty RR employees on site.
Crowd control? Gee, I don’t recall ever seeing crowd control when I am watching trains. (some) People become so fixated on what they are doing, they become oblivious to everything else going on around them.
Crowd control should have applied to any of the locations where they stopped on that steamer transfer. The Intermodal is certainly rolling along at more than walking pace (CP Rail handles that a little differently during the Holiday Train occasions). But that could be a cultural difference between the USA and Canada.
As for that dense Brit, hmmmm I guess only showing up for cute steamer occasions means total ignorance of normal train traffic speed.
BTW most often I railfan by my lonesome self, I just don’t have the patience for the yacking gangs who get distracted way too easily and pull all kinds of stunts to get just a little closer to the action — not having a decent zoom/tele and a tripod is a real disadvantage for that crowd.
"I just don’t have the patience for the yacking gangs who get distracted way too easily and pull all kinds of stunts to get just a little closer to the action "
Yea, I agree Hans. But sometimes they just seem to where I am, even if I don’t expect them to be.
I am not surprised at these examples of world wide trainspotters’ stupidity and bad manners .
I expect many of you may have inadvertently put yourself in nearly the same position .
You go to somewhere expecting to take pictures , set yourself up , and some ignoramous plonks himself right in your line of shot . So , being polite , you edge round him a little . Then someone else gets in his way , so he moves , you move again and you finish up with people inadvertently putting themselves in danger , all marching sideways like a well drilled squad of sheep .
So you go to a museum where big lumps of metal are not rushing at you on other lumps of metal . You set your camera up . Nobody else around . Great . Final adjustments , then , in a glottal voice comes "Oh look here dear , a train ( or tank , or elephant , whatever) , let’s block this gentleman’s view and spoil his camera shots " . And blow me , he has a camera , so he knows how bloody irritating it is .
So you go to an air display and stand behind the people who have paid for seats . Something exciting happens , like a plane appears , and they stand up !!! Blocking your only chance of getting the sight and sound of a Whit and Prattney engined aircraft on its very last flight . Ever .
Now , ship spotting , that’s fun . Cuz they all march sideways into the dock . Good .
Mike
Mike, the trick is to set out your Claymores, or at least signs that indicate Claymores have been set out.
Good thing that in the first few thousand years of human beings nobody interfered with whatz called" Natural selection" otherwise we would…
Gee Mike, ah, were you there? I mean, you describe what happened almost to a “T”. 
David Maynard said:
Gee Mike, ah, were you there? I mean, you describe what happened almost to a “T”.
Sheesh David, it all depends on the population density or should that be the population’s density.
David Maynard said:
Gee Mike, ah, were you there? I mean, you describe what happened almost to a “T”.
"I’ve been everywhere , man , I’ve been everywhere .
Never worry or care , man , never worry or care …"
Mike
Steve Featherkile said:
Mike, the trick is to set out your Claymores, or at least signs that indicate Claymores have been set out.
Oh my , it took a Navy Man to come up with the solution .
I stand guilty of being a Crab .
Mike
But that kind of requires that the average dolt knows what a Claymore is.
David Maynard said:
But that kind of requires that the average dolt knows what a Claymore is.
And what a “Crab” is , presumably ?
Mike
Its not just Foamers, photographers can get transfixed looking thru the viewfinder and forget all notions of personal safety. Seen it in various sports over the years, auto racing, football, even bike racing. How many wildlife photographers have been killed by animals over the years? There is a famous sequence from the pages of B&W era of National Geographic where the photographer is so transfixed by photographing the Lion charging him he doesn’t realize he’s about to become lunch.
