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Crash at Crush (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Well, at least I'm sure we learned some valuable less-

The story made national headlines, and Crush was immediately "fired" from the Katy Railroad.[12] In light of a lack of negative publicity, however, he was "rehired" the next day and continued to work for the company until his retirement, in a career spanning six decades.[13]

Incredible

[–] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Katy is such a shit hole, it makes sense they would have nothing better to do than kill 2 of its citizens through an unnecessary publicity stunt. It just makes too much sense.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 1 points 16 hours ago

This happened in 1896. Wasn't much else to do besides train crashing and watching executions.

But yeah, Katy do suck lol.