This is really a very catchy song about dumb ways to die

[conuly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

And the moral is just right, because truly, there are very few good reasons for entering train tracks.

Edit: There is now a real life version! Ye gods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKczjG2Gj5U

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

Did you catch that it's a PSA from the Melbourne (Australia) Metro system?!

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I can only come up with about three reasons to be on the train tracks (maybe four, but it's a real stretch):

1. Crossing them.
2. Retrieving something that fell/blew/wandered (as a pet)/etc.
3. It's your job.
4. It's the ONLY way to get from A to B without bushwhacking--i.e., no road. This is terribly unlikely, but I suppose it COULD happen if one were to get lost in the trackless wilderness and stumble over a railroad with no parallel highway.

[conuly]

Number two only really applies if the dropped thing is alive. Anything else, you can replace.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

True, but if you look both ways, get it and get out, it shouldn't be necessarily fatal. It's not like train tracks are as busy as an Interstate freeway, after all.