Idiot at crossing in France
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Watch the idiot in the white car that pulls up alongside the tractor and then crosses the railway tracks AFTER the barriers have gone down. Both the tractor driver and myself had a go at him. I had set up the camera to film a steam special and caught this idiot on film
DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS AT A RAILWAY CROSSING
Who all thought the tractor driver was gonna do something stupid 🤣
No one
When I saw that tractor appearing I thought it would be the star of the video.
Ahhahaha I thought it too, perhaps because there is a video movie about a Tractor vs train accident happened in the uk. ( I mean at those manual gated Level crossings)
Guilty! ☝🏼
Me.
It’s nice to know that no matter where in the world you go, there will be an idiot.
Love the way he waits for the barriers to raise before crossing back over.
LOL 😆
Like at school lol
Actually, that's a wise move of him. Because a lot of accidents happen right after the train passes, and a person starts to cross the rails, there's another train coming, and you can't hear the noise because of the first train... That's very sad
@@equim7363 No it isn't sad. The fault is always on the part of the person who does ANYTHING wrong while the barriers are down, the lights are flashing and the alarm bells are sounding. NO EXCUSES, and anyone who makes a comment about how sad it is that people are killed doing stupid things is likely to be someone who takes these kinds of chances every day.
Probably he loves to make "artistic and documentary" photographs... there are many photographers who won prizes around the world ...and also thousands of dollars because it's their passion.
the same is about fine artists.
He ran to another side because the sun was on another side, if he would make photographs in shadow, the photograph would be very bad quality.
For example, there are competitions for photographing portraits and documentary photographs..contests for tree photographs, and contests for traffic photographs.
Well, at least the sensible tractor driver gave him a good telling off!
It would have been funny if after the train went past we look up and see his car had been stolen.
That would be funny and he starts panicking,even making him look more stupid.This incident would be caught on camera.STUPIDITY.
And his bag of onions .
That would have been Italy, then.
Or homeless men having an orgy in there.
@@user-cf6te2ug2g h
The British photographer was more annoyed with the car driver as he spoiled his shot !
My coughing chimney is a creepy guy: ua-cam.com/video/sYaA0Mjg1es/v-deo.html
Is he British? Did you talk to him? 😅
Well,- "Bloody idiot, bladdy idiot..... there's a camera there. Bloody idiot .... YOUR AN IDIOT! (as the car drove away)... fancy running over when the barriers down!" - So yes, my guess he's British, london/South East accent. Unless you disagree?
The Jupiter Paulsen incident.
@@switch12345678 Nice one .
No, wait a minute. That was an incredibly special train being pulled by a steam engine. Of course the guy wanted to get a photo of it.
There was no need to cross, he could have taken the picture from the side he was before crossing barriers went down. 🤔🤷🏼♂️
Yes but safety matters more. And he could've waited at the next level crossing where the distance from the train is further and hence having more time to prepare taking a photo of the steam train.
If you could have been killed by a train, at least he picked the classier option.
@@theunderrated86 If he had stayed on the side where his car was, he could have a few extra seconds to get ready! PLUS, he got in front of other people who had already set up!!!
@@periquitovalenciaelmusic9593 not such a clear shot that's why the others were on that side with tripods etc. Bit foolish but that's trainspotters for you.
He’s being called an idiot by the other photographers since he may have ‘ruined’ their perfect photo😱😱🤣🤣
Probably he loves to make "artistic and documentary" photographs... there are many photographers who won prizes around the world ...and also thousands of dollars because it's their passion for decades, for man years...
the same is about fine artists.
He ran to another side because the sun was on another side, if he would make photographs in shadow, the photograph would be very bad quality.
For example, there are competitions for photographing portraits and documentary photographs..contests for tree photographs, and contests for traffic photographs.
People who live every day on Tik Tok.. can never understand the artistic value of photographs or paintings.
@@alaalfa8839 I’m afraid that he will only win a total of $0 if he gets run over by the train…
The train driver can see you at every crossing. They’re mostly thinking please not today.
1.34 thought that guy was holding a machine gun !!
1:34 you mean?
Haha so did I :)
I too thought he was wielding a minigun.
Yes. 😂
There's now a popular meme picture I have seen a few times of camera equipment folded up in a way that makes it look at first glance like it might be a sniper rifle.
A minority of train spotters are one of the biggest problems on the railway for special services. For a particular flying Scotsman steam service they climbed over fences and stood inches from the main line.
The steam service was delayed over 2 hours and caused hundreds of other delays and cancellations.
Due to this the steam express service was never authorised for a full service and literally no one else will get to enjoy the steam train thanks to selfish train spotters.
Granted they are the minority, but the problems they cause are massive
I've seen a few videos of this happening. If someone stay too close, then may get injured. I see no reason for extensive delays or cancellation of entire service. You can't protect someone against their will. By some measures, England is a weird country.
@@dave161141 we as train operators have a legal responsibility to stop trains if someone is too close, its just how the laws are.
Inches from the line is not on the line so what's the problem?
@@Fireglo that should be pretty obvious, if you're travelling at speed it's impossible to tell if they are at a safe distance from the line or not. Therefore you must always stop and report it.
Furthermore untrained people on tracks do not understand the systems employed on the railway, such as hand signals, light signals, horn codes etc so it's not safe to operate trains with them on the tracks since you can't anticipate their moves.
But if you want to view this from the trainspotters perspective they are simply breaking the law, it's a £1000 fine and if you're unwilling to pay, up to 6 months in jail (though I've never even heard of anyone refusing to pay)
Sadly the fines pale in comparison to how much these trespass events cost the railway.
@@xaiano794 that never stopped Rally drivers...
Haha, I love how everyone in the video tells him what an Idiot he is. These barriers are there for a reason..
Yes, to stop cars. Imagine he was crossing where there was no actual crossing on foot. What's the difference?
A lot of people don't understand level crossings.
@@garryferrington811 Darwin loves these people
To block cars.
Imagine him to stumble and fall, then your contribution would have a lot more views. Love the sound of the bells, makes me want to visit France again.
He doesn't seem remotely close to being in any danger or endangering anyone else.
Agreed. Bitter jerks. Cool engine tho!
Yeah really. He was across a good 7 seconds before the train got there. I certainly have crossed a regular street in front of cars cutting things closer than that. In fact once I crossed a street and a feral dog chased after me maybe 3 seconds behind me and the dog got hit by a car, that was pretty funny and satisfying.
This is the comment I was looking for. He looked both ways repeatedly, judged his situation, and crossed. I think I face more danger crossing a busy intersection.
Doug Buse,
Would have been blocking the traffic coming from across the tracks, if there had been any...
Everything just to get views on youtube.
He probably ran in front of the other photographers who had set up for their shots.
And got the award winning shot ....
I can hear the British tourist telling off the driver of the white car about how stupid he was when he sees him running across the track after the barriers came down
The driver got in his way of videoing the train.
Typical British tourist
Probably didn't understand a word of English or common sense.
@@philclarke3203 or the driver thinks the trainspotter was not yelling at him.
Not sure a random driver in France does understand English, though.
Not sure what the fuss is about. He had loads of time to be clear. Having to cross the roads in a busy town is closer that this.
This isn't the high street; a train can't stop and any coming together is final- you won't bounce off the bonnet...
@@peezebeuponyou3774You're missing the point further than the train misses him. It doesn't have to stop and he isn't going to get flattened as it's a country mile away
And he knew this before he decided to run through the crossing?
@@peezebeuponyou3774 yes, he looked to see how far away it was
@@peezebeuponyou3774 Yes he stopped, looked and listened, judged it speed and crossed like we all have to do when crossing a road......no different.
WOW! What a beautiful train. He's no idiot....just wanted a photo. I wasn't expecting to see such a jewel.
They have no idea what the real passion is. :-)
Trains have 2 sides to them. He could have stayed on the side of the barrier he parked at, and taken a photograph from there, without being a dick who risked the possibility of being spread into a paste over a few hundred metres. Some people are just pricks.
"Idiot" is understood in any language...
And it wasn't possible to take pics on HIS side of the tracks???
I give the "idiot" prize to the tractor driver for being a "Karen". The camera guy got his once in a lifetime photo, and it was worth the risk.
Im with you on that, no harm done.
I thought it was the tractor at first lol
Best Dustin Hoffman impersonator
He just want to make a picture of this very nice train. With the sun in his back. He is right! Nothing happened!!!!
He put his life in danger and spoiled the photographer's shot, but he got his nice photo. Classical idiot, but nothing happened. 😂😂😂
@@susanapol382 Correct. He put HIS life in danger. Not any other life.
at first i thought the tractor is gonna misuse
🚜 Tractor driver was telling him he should have stood in the middle of the crossing for the best on coming pic
Not only that, he blocked the way through for any other vehicle mistakenly trying to cross. The vehicle would be stuck at the tracks. Happened near my town a few weeks ago. Killed a person.
Not the end of the world at a sleepy French town crossing
The guy was perfectly fine, people being way to sensitive these days...🤷🏾♂️
That fella in a white car is a fool. He is supposed to wait behind the gates or barrier when the alarm goes off until the trains pass by otherwise he will get hit and killed by a train if failure to do so.
And yet he wasn't hit and killed by a train at all.
How bizarre!
He was on foot. He looked and crossed in plenty of time.
Brilliant!
I learned how to say "idiot" in French.
This happened on a continent where literally nobody wears a bicycle helmet and people are upset about the guy dangerously crossing a railroad track to get a picture of an old locomotive.
Bike helmet?
Yep, that's because we actually have infrastructure almost anywhere on that continent so we don't have to fight for our place on normal roads mixed with cars and HGV's and such ;)
As a common sense lover, I find bike helmets utterly ridiculous. I would rather get mad at people not yielding, failing to indicate, and bikers with boss-of-the-road attitude. I don't think thw english speaking world is great at abiding by road rules
Whoa, I think I speak French. I clearly heard the tractor driver yell "idiot" at the car driver.
Why couldn't he get a pic from the side he stopped on ?
What was wrong with the camera angle from the Other side of the tracks ?
''looks like i scored myself a tripod. and maybe a GoPro.'' railway worker probably.
A pic of any train isn't worth your life. The tractor driver had the right idea.
He got in the way of the other people filming
You could of shot Mad Max Fury Road and Dances With Wolves in the time he had to cross.
As it was so close to the crossing, how is it that he never saw the train coming when he first crossed the crossing?
He did see it and raw it was too far away to hit him while he crossed. There is soooo much safety time allotted at these crossings it's almost ridiculous!
@@fredneecher1746 They will be set up for the maximum speed allowed for the track, regardless of whether trains regularly reach that or not, and with people not keeping them clear like they should, they have to close it sooner to get people to clear the tracks before the train comes without it needing to stop, or when the train is far enough away to to possibly stop if something is stuck on the wrong side of the barrier.
It's the same with traffic lights. If people regularly run red lights, they will code a longer gap between one set turning red and the next turning amber/green. There's a roundabout I on a route I drive where you can watch the gap between the other direction getting a red and a few seconds delay before our direction even starts changing. If noone jumped the lights, our light could change nearly simultaneously, our amber going to green lighting up as their's goes red from amber (UK as amber going to green as well as to red). You could even had green show as soon as the other is red because everyone who could safely stop for the amber should be doing so, with no excuse for crossing the stop line at the point it turns red, but the buffers are needed because too many don't, and then once it's learned, it gets worse. Vicious cycle of wrongdoers and their affect on the remaining law abiding drivers.
The guy was fine. I don't see why people feel the need to insult others, he didn't do anything that put anyone else in harms way.
My point, exactly. Why can't people just mind their own business... I'm sure they are capable of being idiots too.
My thought too.
The idiots were the ones complaining.
ya he had loads of time. people need to mind their own business
No, it's illegal and the barrier is there for a reason.
Rarely has such bravery been witnessed by a Frenchman
Typical English disease comment
that was a nice lookin steam engine
Why can't people just mind their own business instead of thinking they are perfect and everyone else is an "idiot".
Because a decent society is not based on "mind your own business" but on common sense. I don't get your point
Damn Foamers.
you can like trains or not, but don't do this or it will be the last time you see a train.
It took me a while to see what the fuss was about! Ignrorant townies is all.. He knew what he was doing and he was in no danger. The barriers are for vehicles. As long as olk keep an eye open crossing is absolutely fine. We who live near railway lines know these things!
Would of just been the same result had he stayed on the other side , surely??
What’s the fuss about ?? I didn’t see anything wrong, am I missing something?
same guys will say to a video recorded in India where hundreds of people cross the barriers after closing: "oh no prob, just different culture"
You're right, there's nothing there, just guys with no life who love complaining about everything...
I think a photographer is mad that he messed up their shot.
The blurry shot worth dying for.
Calling him an idiot is pure insult. Posting a video which proves you were insulting that gentleman isn't significantly more clever than him crossing the tracks for a damn picture.
"Calling him an idiot is pure insult."
And as long as it's deserved, it's a fitting and proper insult.
@@nephetula if it was up to anybody to judge what is deserved and what not we wouldn't need any law or court. But this is not how our society works...
He wanted the better lighting from the far side of the tracks? Not too bright himself...that thing was hauling ass.
No, the real question is, what the hell is he doing leaving his car there? If he was on foot, this would make sense, he crossed with plenty of time before the train crossed, but what was his plan on crossing on foot, just to leave his car behind?
Taking photos.
Tut tut, so full of your righteous selves. Looks like Mr. White Car was smart enough to get across the tracks and grab his snap.
there is such a crossing in my hometown. there's been 3 dead in the la st 20 years. the last one was a teen who didn't try to cross but was too close and got sucked by the air depression as an express train passed by.
There is nine seconds between him leaving the track and being struck by a train
John Travolta could of learned portuguese in that time.
What was so wrong with that? He had more than enough time. I've crossed in traffic many times where there weren't any crosswalks.
Other people wanted to take a pic and this dude spoiled it for others. And also he blocked the intersection for any emergencys.
For a moment ,I was going to comment that the French seem to be as big whingers as the British.
Then I heard the accent at the end and realise he was a pom.
Really? did he really just do that to get a picture of the steam train??
Do You Know The Way? I do the same a lot of times... I can't find anything strange in it... he had its time to cross and he wouldn't loose the opportunity of taking his photo... lots of photographs take several risks to get particular shots, and also railfans...
He could have taken the photo from the other side anyway couldn't he, if he was so desperate to get one?
He was a true railfan! I admire his courage to get the photo.
Why couldn't he have filmed the train from the other side of the crossing and thereby not caused a near fatality.
Direct sunlight, dude
I think he got in front of the other people who was taking pictures they was pretty pissed off
He's French, he's supposed to piss people off. It's his job.
Why did not he just shoot from the other side?
Maybe he thought his car would follow but then realized he was wrong. Cars do drive themselves nowadays. He's somewhere driving right now. Hooray!!!
As a fellow train enthusiast, I can tell you, this was nothing. This was sensible! I did crazier shit on a daily basis back in a day :D
So one idiot in the video and another in the comment section.
yeah, crazy, but not too crazy this one. I did think at first that he was going to drive over. He likely had good vision of the train down the line when running across
No big deal. He walked across. No problem.
That's like your average American driver lol
Can you believe how stupidly dangerous that was ,
To cross those tracks without WEARING A MASK COVERING
Come on it wasn't that dangerous! He looked first and there was enough time for him to cross.
Hate that he went over the crossing when it went down then worse of all he then goes and stands right in the way of the other guys Camrea when it's still passing then goes to act like he did nothing yeah I get it it was a steam loco but surley being the other side was better then running over risking your life and ruining everyone else vid
It wasn't even close.
You don't pronounce the T at the end of idiot. Merci. 😊🇫🇷
He broke the law, for sure. But he looked both ways, and correctly determined that he had plenty of time to cross. We do this all the time with roads, and no one thinks twice about it. So law breaker, yes. Idiot, no.
Sylvia Else,
Did he pull alongside the tractor, into the oncoming lane. There was no traffic, but still, did he ?
@@fjb4932 Yes, but we've already established that he's a law breaker.
I don’t know what’s more idiotic - doing what the man did or using a tripod in the middle of the day 🤣
Not idiot, he just a railfan making photographs of rare steam train. As a railfan myself, i know how it looks. We often can look "idiotic", but that can be a possibility to catch rare train once in lifetime. But of course, safety first!
1) Si tu peux tu anticipes...
2) Il devait rester de l'autre côté avec le PN déjà fermé...
3) Le caméraman caché à droite est d'accord avec moi...
Voilà 😂😂😂
I never saw much out of the ordinary...
1) Si tu peux tu anticipes...
2) Il devait rester de l'autre côté avec le PN déjà fermé...
3) Le caméraman à droite est d'accord avec moi...
Voilà 😂😂😂
I was hoping some wag was flashing a mooney in one of those Pullman carriages - alas no wags on that train, oh so French.
Was ist das problem? Weil er drüber geht und 2 minuter spöter ein zug vorbeifährt? Das war doch nicht knapp??
Calm down chaps, he wanted a photo of a great steam loco. It only cost you 20 seconds of your “precious” time!
I was not expecting a steam locomotive to go by.
If that passes for an idiot in France, I'm moving. We have much worse here.
I certainly thought it was the tractor driver that was going to do something stupid. What was the other chap trying to do anyway?
What's the French equivalent of "foamer"? ("Mousseur?")
Never heard it , but it is probably
As a french you just taught me a new word
Edit : There is no equivalent but the word is used as its formal way, I already knew this word but not in this way. This word has certainly a second meaning but nobody used it nowadays.
Term used in Australia is Gunzel.
Tractor driver changes the design of the car whilst out of view from the driver. Try explaining that to the police.
I understand getting a picture of the train but why cross the tracks and why wait to last minute why not get there 10 min or more before it came
I dont see why people are mad at the guy. What did he do wrong?
He went through the crossing while the gates were down.
@@willer3399 ahhhh! Thanks
Idiot?
NO!
He met the train because it was a special _steam_ train that he wanted to photograph.
That's why the other photographers were at the same crossing.
.
Idiot?
Treble YES ...
@@Baetzibaer
RS Hole!
Now I know how to say "Idiot" in French!
LOL. Train chaser could of gotten killed trying to get his precious picture of the Steam Engine. Hope he took the Lenz cap off the camera. Anyway, It takes all types at Rail crossings. At first I thought the tractor guy was going to make run for it, good thing he had good brakes and didnt break the gate barrier.
Why couldn't he just take the photo from where he was?!
Sun was on the wrong side
Not an idiot… just a railfan. However, sometimes it happens rail fans are…
Gee, Frenchmen calling an Englishman an idiot... who would thought...
My associate Ulrich Schaudt wonderz if jerry had same face at howitzer hillz as silent moda uomo at Stuttgart visits?
I don't get it... why was he an idiot? He just took a picture of the old orient-express.
Je ne sais pas pourquoi tu dis qu'il es un "idiot", il veut juste photographier un train à vapeur rare, oui, rare, car on en vois pas tout les jours en France, par rapport au Royaume Unis.
I Don't know why you say an "idot", he want just take a picture of a rare steam train, yes, rare, because, us in France we don't see everydays steam train, but in UK we can say : Yes, there are steam train everyday !!!
I mean, if while you're trying to get a picture of a steam train you get hit by that same steam train (or another train for that matter), I don't think you'll be enjoying your photos and footage much...
he could took a photo at the tractor side
Et bah faisons tous comme lui. Marchons sur les rails alors que le passage à niveau est fermé.
Le jour ou tu seras sous un train j’espère que tu comprendras (enfin, si t’es encore en vie).
Stuck between a rock and a tractor pulling a trailer by a belligerent operator.
If the car driver stopped behind the tractor/trailer he would be blocking the lane of the left-to-right traffic on the roadway behind him... sometimes this can result is a rear-ender... safer to pull up along the side of the tractor since the opposing traffic on the other side of the track is stopped by the RR gate, and when the train passes and gates lift he lets the tractor proceed and falls in behind.
If the tractor/trailer driver was more cordial he would have let the car proceed first since he's got the more burdened/slower load, but NO, he calls the car driver an "idiot"
(And it was a special train... a historic steam locomotive deserving of a photo.)
"Il est fou."
Wonder why the shot on on other side of the crossing was far superior than the one his car was on?
Im betting it was the lighting, that's where the other photographers were.
I doubt he got the shot he wanted anyway. He walks back before the train had finished passing.
Я больше охренел от паровоза. Паровоза!!!
Ok, probably because I'm French myself, I had to read the description to understand the problem. Sorry, but is an idiot the one who better follows machines than himself. Looking obviously right and left, he was following his intelligence. Who then can call him an idiot ?
I was expecting an SNCF express service!
...ein geiler Zug !!! Wow
Dude was taking a photo of the train at each crossing, that's why he didn't have enough time to park properly