If he knows enough about trains to know that the switch was thrown the other way, he knows enough to be aware that emergencies do arise that might cause a train to be shunted onto his track. Plus, lacking camera feed or line of sight, he doesn't know the switch is thrown the other way; he just knows it was when he checked. Change happens. (And if he did have a camera feed or line-of-sight, he'd have been able to get out of the way! :)
A friend of mine has a userpic that's a picture of a pair of beat-up jeans with an angry face spray-painted on them and text that reads, "Uh-oh! Gywn is wearing the CRANKY PANTS again!" I should steal it for debating; the longer I go the more curmudgeonly I end up sounding. :)
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Date: 2006-07-31 06:58 pm (UTC)A friend of mine has a userpic that's a picture of a pair of beat-up jeans with an angry face spray-painted on them and text that reads, "Uh-oh! Gywn is wearing the CRANKY PANTS again!" I should steal it for debating; the longer I go the more curmudgeonly I end up sounding. :)