Maybe you can beat the train. Maybe you're dead wrong.

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Maybe you can beat the train. Maybe you're dead wrong.

When the bars are down, the lights are flashing and the bells are ringing, this means stop.

Set fire to your hair,
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
Eat medicine that's out of date,
Use your private parts as piranha bait

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die

Get your toast out with a fork
Do your own electrical work
Teach your self how to fly,
Eat a two-week old unrefrigerated pie

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die

Invite a psycho killer inside
Scratch a drug dealer's brand new ride
Take your helmet off in outer space,
Use a clothes dryer as a hiding place

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die

Keep a rattlesnake as a pet
Sell both your kidneys on the internet
Eat a tube of superglue,
I wonder what's this red button do?

Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die

Dress up like a moose during hunting season
Disturb a nest of wasps for no good reason

Stand on the edge of a train station platform
Drive around the boomgates at a level crossing
*Run across the tracks between the platforms,*
They might not rhyme, but they're quite possibly...

THE DUMBEST WAYS TO DIE
THE DUMBEST WAYS TO DIE
THE DUMBEST WAYS TO DIE
SO MANY DUMB,
SO MANY DUMB WAYS TO DIE

Be safe around trains.

Reminds me of a dark joke:

A man is so depressed about life in Russia he decides to end it all. He goes by the train station with a bottle of vodka and a loaf of bread and lies down on the tracks. A friend asks what he's doing.

The suicidal man (I'll call him Ivan) replies, "Well, it takes so long for the trains to get here that I'll either die of boredom, which is why I need the vodka or starve to death, which is why I brought the bread."

Yeah a couple months ago I walked home from the bus station that is about 20 minutes away by foot, I attempted to take a 'short-cut' but it was more of a long-cut.

Anyways once I got close to my apartments there was a train coming, It looked like I had time to just run through since it was so far back and the bars that come down were blocking just the road not the little trail, but I thought better of it and just waited for it to pass. I probably had time, but I figured my life isn't worth risking just to get home 10 minutes sooner than I would have. I mean what if my shoe got stuck in the track or something...then I probably would not be here to make this post.

I saw quite a few close shaves when I worked on trains.

I can't see what class of train it is.

If I fail to beat the train it ceases to matter if I beat the train. I won't be around to care.

My dad was stuck in traffic unfortunately he stopped in the middle of a train track. And wouldn't you know that a train decided to come along at that time. The bar came down and the lights began to flash. The car choose to die at that moment and he couldn't get it started again. The train tried to stop but it had many many train cars and due to the weight it can take a couple miles for a train to come to a complete stop. The train hit the car and turned it into a wreck. My dad and my brothers and sisters fled the car at the last minute.

Sometimes it is not about beating a train. Sometimes it is about making sure that you never ever stop in the middle of a train track.

That sounds like a nightmare, jimmy! I'm glad your entire family escaped safely. Wow, that would have made me sweat!

It was a convertible. He bought it new and I think he really loved the car. The train wasn't moving fast, only a few miles per hour. But the stopping distance was just too short. It was like watching a disaster unfold in slow motion.