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A train wreck occurs when a train crashes. It most often occurs as a result of an accident, as when a wheel jumps off a track in a derailment, or miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track, or when a boiler explosion occurs. Train wrecks were occasionally staged for public entertainment; crowds watched as two vacant trains were deliberately sent speeding toward each other.

Legal consequences

Because train wrecks usually cause widespread property damage as well as injury or death, the intentional wrecking of a train in regular service is often treated as an extremely serious crime. For example, in the U.S. state of California, the penalty for intentionally causing a non-fatal train wreck is life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.[1] For a fatal train wreck, the possible sentences are either life without the possibility of parole, or death.

As metaphor

The term is sometimes used metaphorically to describe a disaster that you can see coming but cannot stop, such as former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's assertion that a government shutdown would be a "train wreck."[2] Educators warn that attaching a high school diploma to a test such as WASL that fails over half of students would lead to a "train wreck".

The term "train wreck" is also used metaphorically to describe something distasteful or disastrous, yet inevitable, or something distasteful yet compelling in some form ("You don't want to stare, but you just can't look away"). A person may be described in this way as being a "train wreck".

In software development, method chains of the style: getThis().getThat().getTheOther() are referred to as "train wrecks". The term is pejorative because their use breaks the Law of Demeter in addition to being stylistically cumbersome.

See also

References

1. ^ Section 219. California Penal Code. Retrieved on .
2. ^ Holman, Kwame (1996-11-20). The State of Newt". PBS. Retrieved on .

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''For the definition of derailment in psychiatry, see thought disorder.
A derailment is an accident on a railway whereby a train leaves the rails, which can result in damage, injury, and death.
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Boiler explosions are catastrophic failures of boilers. As seen today, boiler explosions are of two kinds. One kind is over-pressure in the pressure parts of the steam and water sides. The second kind is explosion in the furnace.
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Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person).
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Parole can have different meanings depending on the area and judiciary system. All of the meanings derive from the French parole, meaning "(spoken) word".
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Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences.
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Metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin) is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. In the simplest case, this takes the form: "The [first subject] is a [second subject].
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Newton Leroy Gingrich, (born June 17, 1943), served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, Time magazine selected him as the Man of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of
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A government shutdown occurs when a government discontinues providing services that are not considered "essential". Typically, essential services include police, fire fighting, armed forces, and corrections.
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WASL can refer to:
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California Penal Code forms the basis for the application of criminal law in the American state of California.

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The code is divided into Parts 1 and 2, which each contain "titles," some of these being subdivided into "chapters," with "sections" comprising the
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