High Speed train crash in Spain

[The Larch]

Driver is taken into custody, apparently he was a dick.

If you say that because of the "I'm doing 200 km/h, weeeee" Facebook thing, that was not from this trip, but one last year.

[garbon]

Is that a crime in Spain?

It should be in every country.

Then we really will have killed Languish.

Well except for maybe in frou frou Scandinavian prisons.

[Liep]

Well except for maybe in frou frou Scandinavian prisons.

I don't get the reference.

[Iormlund]

Apparently the cruising speed before that bend is around 220 km/h and this train doesn't have automatic speed control (unlike high-speed AVE). So it probably was just a human error, the driver getting distracted and forgetting to slow down.

[Liep]

Driver is taken into custody, apparently he was a dick.

If you say that because of the "I'm doing 200 km/h, weeeee" Facebook thing, that was not from this trip, but one last year.

I really have no opinion of the man yet, but the newspaper article I read before posting did.

How are you handling it down there, btw?

[garbon]

Well except for maybe in frou frou Scandinavian prisons.

I don't get the reference.

Didn't we have that article here about some sort of Scandinavian prison where prisoners had all of these privileges (though it actually seemed more like a halfway house). I was suggesting that might be the only place where Languish dicks would be allowed online.

[Liep]

Ah yes, I think that was from Norway. And I'm sure prisoners are allowed internet time here too, even if the allotted time only permits limited dickery.

[Ideologue]

Is that a crime in Spain?

It should be in every country.

Then we really will have killed Languish.

Well except for maybe in frou frou Scandinavian prisons.

EUROFASCISM.

To be fair, though, in Denmark, I'd be a much nicer person.  Place is like Canada Plus.

[garbon]

Is that a crime in Spain?

It should be in every country.

Then we really will have killed Languish.

Well except for maybe in frou frou Scandinavian prisons.

EUROFASCISM.

To be fair, though, in Denmark, I'd be a much nicer person.  Place is like Canada Plus.

I don't think I'd be nicer in either place.  I'd probably be nicer if I lived in San Diego.

[The Larch]

Driver is taken into custody, apparently he was a dick.

If you say that because of the "I'm doing 200 km/h, weeeee" Facebook thing, that was not from this trip, but one last year.

I really have no opinion of the man yet, but the newspaper article I read before posting did.

How are you handling it down there, btw?

I think that everybody is still quite shellshocked, it was all so random. The bodycount is atrocious, nothing like that has ever happened over here, at least in living memory. The only thing that comes to mind is the 11-M Madrid train bombings. Plenty of heartwarming stories about common people generosity amongst the carnage, though.

[jimmy olsen]

Driver charged with 79 counts of reckless homicide

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/28/19734279-driver-of-derailed-spanish-train-charged-with-79-counts-of-homicide?lite

[CountDeMoney]

Alaez set the following conditions of release: Garzon must check in regularly with the court, surrender his passport and not drive trains.

I guess not.

[jimmy olsen]

Swiss trains collide head on! 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/29/world/europe/switzerland-train-collision/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[Ideologue]

Driver charged with 79 counts of reckless homicide

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/28/19734279-driver-of-derailed-spanish-train-charged-with-79-counts-of-homicide?lite

Six months' on-the-job probation.

[Ideologue]

Alaez set the following conditions of release: Garzon must check in regularly with the court, surrender his passport and not drive trains.

I guess not.

Whoa.  More severe than I expected.