Comments on A Query for the Train

But can I use this single, isolated incident of a gay person exhibiting irresponsible behavior that killed people, with no corresponding contrast to the behavior of straight people, as representative? Pleeeeeease? Pretty please?

It would be lame if somebody started blogging Gay Train Conductor Watch or Every Child Deserves a Gay Train Conductor or Those Passengers Were Asking to Die in a Train with a Gay Conductor. Because no matter how many news stories they can find like that, it doesn't prove anything, does it?

Does he mean the engineer instead of the conductor? The conductor is the one who takes tickets, etc. The engineer is the guy driving the train. I thought it was the engineer that was texting when the train crashed. I don't get it.

His texts -- which were so obviously wrong to be doing from a practical standpoint, it's mind-boggling -- were not "sketchy". The teens are train enthusiasts who regarded him as a mentor and they were all friends because there ain't that many potential train professionals and there ain't that many train engineers. He wasn't a youth pastor, for crying out loud.

You weren't really equating gay with child molestor, were you?

Wow, all those people die and this guy can only think of himself and his poor, poor, gay community.

Elenchos @ 2: No, it doesn't prove anything. (The "gay/pederasty angle"?! WTF?!) But it would be amusing to see Dan Savage do an endless series of posts on train disasters caused by heterosexual drivers.

I could care less what hole this guy pokes his pole into - you don't text while you're driving ANYTHING. It's total fuckery that people are so IM-reliant that they have to do it RIGHT now, at all costs, no matter what their primary responsibility at the time is.

Dear letter writer: stop being a concern troll.

actually the people most likely to text and drive are

a. type a sales people
b. young women
c. gabby hand fags

Reminds me of the excuses provided to the dude that crashed the Staten Island Ferry about 5 or 6 years ago. "He was depressed...on medication..." Fuck you, man. These people were drinking/drugging/texting while DRIVING. Other PEOPLE. I don't think sexual orientation has anything to do with it.

I live in the county where this train was headed & this is the first I've heard of these details. If this were going to be an issue with the media, they would have pounced a long time ago.

eli sanders is gay?

Apparently.

Trouble ahead, lady in red,
Take my advice youd be better off dead.
Switchmans sleeping, train hundred and two is
On the wrong track and headed for you.

Driving that train, high on cocaine,
Casey jones is ready, watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.

Trouble with you is the trouble with me,
Got two good eyes but you still dont see.
Come round the bend, you know its the end,
The fireman screams and the engine just gleams...