A mere legality

[Wilson Gray]

I'm watching, Don't Try This at Home. A guy runs from one platform to
the opposite one in front of a speeding train. The engineer, unable to
see, because of the angle, whether he's hit the guy, slams on the
brakes.
Turns out that the track-crosser has suffered only a broken ankle.
Arrested, he's convicted of "causing a train to stop, for no good
reason." Makes sense. That's what he'd done, even if he'd been killed.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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