FILE- In this Feb. 12, 2018, file photo, a CSX freight train passes through Homestead, Pa. CSX railroad will give investors another update on its efforts to cut costs and improve efficiency when it releases its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, July 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Possibly the stupidest way that some leftists protest is standing in the middle of the street or the highway, trying to block traffic.
Nothing more aggravates people, some of whom might be amenable to your cause, then getting in their way as they’re trying to get home or go to work.
Not to mention that it can be incredibly dangerous as some have discovered the hard way when they’ve been hit, run over by cars or arrested for their trouble.
But what can you do to top blocking traffic? How about trying to block a train?
About 25 climate activists from groups including Climate Disobedience Center, 350 New Hampshire Action and 350 Mass Action tried to stop a coal resupply train near Worcester, Massachusetts that was attempting to get to a coal plant, Merrimack Generating Station, in Bow, New Hampshire.
They staked out the tracks in West Boylston on Monday night around 8 p.m. and had look-outs checking for the train.
When they thought the train was getting close they had someone call the train office to report that there were people on the tracks, telling them they needed to stop the train, according to WBUR.
“This is an emergency. There are protesters on the track of the Worcester Main line Near milepost seven. I repeat you need to stop the train on the Worcester main line there are protesters on the track at milepost seven.”During a similar protest on Dec. 8, activists called the dispatcher and the train stopped before it reached them. In this case, however, Powsner says the man who answered told him that he couldn’t stop the train, though Powsner says it’s unclear if the man was unwilling or unable to stop the train.Soon after the 9:30 p.m. calls, activists willing to risk arrest stepped onto the tracks, flashlights and headlamps pointed toward the oncoming train. About a minute later, the first blares from the train’s horn could be heard from where they stood.Lila Kohrman-Glaser, an organizer with 350 New Hampshire Action, said she felt “anxious” standing on the tracks. “But I feel way more anxious about the climate crisis and the fact that coal is still being used in New Hampshire. And if I have to stand in front of a train and be a little anxious, that feels like a really fair trade-off.”
Activists who had been stationed up the track as spotters waved flags to try to slow down the train but it didn’t slow down.
Finally, that activists standing on the tracks got the message that the train wasn’t stopping and were forced to jump off the tracks when it was about 50 feet away, nearly getting run over. 
While some of the climate cult group were arrested in the incident trying to stop the train the week before, no one was arrested in the wake of this incident.
People ripped the activists on Twitter for their actions.
The idiots on the track knew a train was coming, unlike the train which was suppose to be there, the people were not.
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