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  • That’s a lot of planning, and effort though. Essentially you’re saying this villain, which would realistically need to be a team effort, would need to subdue, or more realistically kill every depot worker at the same time so that no calls for help to local authorities can go out. Now maybe the 4 tied up people ARE depot workers. That would be plausible if he only subdued them.

    Then, once there is no opposition to hinder his plans to modify the trains brake lines, you would have to know ahead of time which model this trolley is. A lot of newer models have a feature where the brakeline is technically always active, just not engaged. Once you clip the brakes, it would snap shut. So right off the bat, you need to make sure it’s an older model. Which, would be older then about 20 years old. I know that sounds like you wouldn’t find any that old, but you’d be surprised. 20 year old rail system is actually very modern. In Cleveland we use a light rail system. It’s not a true trolley, but it’s similar. The ones on our tracks were first made operational in the 1960s. BUT! Ours are based on electricity which hang from a power supply line that runs above the track. So if you were to cut that, yes you’d cut the brake, but you’d also cut the ability to drive. And since our depot yard isn’t near any hills, you’d just sit there.

    Essentially what you’re suggesting at that point, is a terrorist attack, which even if you did the months/years of planning to make everything carry out in oceans 11 style heist, you’re still talking about killing 10-40 people to set up a situation where the sole purpose is to endanger either 1 or 3 peoples lives. All just to make one person feel guilty for “killing”.

    And I’m not even going to ATTEMPT to go into how even after all that, the psychological “victim” may not even give a shit, so the whole thing was for nothing.


  • A trolley would be an intercity transportation system, and thus the only place it would have reason to have a switch would be at the depot yard, which would also have other workers there at all working hours. Some would even be 24/7.

    Furthermore, a trolley wouldn’t have the same problem a train would, in that it CAN stop on a dime. See my whole thing when this was a train, and I’m standing at the switch, was that I know there would be a posted emergancy number that reaches dispatch directly. THIS is the number you need to call in the event of an emergancy. Not the cops. Not the train company. You need the emergancy number posted at every switch and railroad crossing. They are in communication with the train 24/7, and can stop a train faster. Not instantly, but as fast to instantly as possible within the limitations of momentum.

    Whereas a trolley would not have these issues. They travel at city speeds at a drastic fraction of the weight. They can stop closer to the reaction time a bus would. And they’d still have brakes, although the mandating body on this would vary from state to state, with Ohio being the Ohio Highway Department of Transportation.

    So at the depot yard they wouldn’t even be traveling at city speeds. They’d be going more like 5mph like you would in a parting lot, vs a road.












  • Well…silver lining. It was the late 1930s. I doubt he’s still alive NOW!!!

    Bad news is, nqzis for some reason seem to have made a comeback.

    I’ve been downvoted in the past for saying this, but I truely believe we need to legalize murder. HEAR ME OUT…

    If you’re a nazi, and I mean a legit nazi, have swastica tattoos, participate in rallys, ect, I think murder should be 100% legal.

    You show up, you have a swastica, BANG! One less nazi.

    “Oh, did you hear? Lost_My_Mind is a murderer!”

    “What??? That’s CRAZY??? What happened???”

    “Well, we were at a Wendys, he ordered the chicken nuggets, then he was complaining to himself at how small the nuggets were, and how shrinkflation is real…and then a dude with swastikas on his jacket showed up. Lost_My_Mind grabbed a knife and stabbed him hundreds of times.”

    “Oh…well what else was supposed to happen? He did the right thing. Well, except for ordering the nuggets. That’s just encouraging companies to KEEP shrinking their products…but the murder is fine. Could have used the blood as a dipping sauce!”

    “Ew, no!”

    “You’re right. That’s the line. That went too far. We found the line, and that line is lite canabalism. You can kill nazis, but not eat them.”




  • I just want life to be less interesting. Just in general. I am NOT looking forward to the next 4 years. Just everyday, waking up to ANOTHER outragious, absurd, and infuriating tweet from an old man who just says things for attention but also holds power over the entire country, not to mention our military and nuclear codes. He might have a temper tantrum one day, and just nuke toronto. Just start WWIII with Canada on a whim.

    I’m not saying that specifically will happen, but I’m also not NOT saying it will happen. You just never know whats next when a racist man being pulled by equal parts dementia and narcissism is pulling the strings with the emotional maturity of a fucking toddler.

    You know what Biden said today? No, really, do you know what current sitting president Joe Biden said today? Me neither. I haven’t a clue what he said. I assume he may have ordered a sandwich on rye bread around noon. Just guessing. I very well could be 100% wrong. And that’s kind of the point. Biden is boring. That’s why I like I like Biden. There’s no drama.