This reminds me of a hilarious video clip I saw years ago about someone taking a selfie video next to train tracks as a train passes, who got what he deserved for being so stupid:

https://youtu.be/Dy8Yt-P614w?si=JQC3Hqy6961d77Fd

There is a train crewman who is standing at the front of the train who takes the guy out by kicking him away from the train for this guy's safety as it passes.  it happens too fast to see the details, so these are the individual frames:

A boot kept him from being a Darwin Award Hall of Famer 🤣🥾

If you read old true wild west magazines, there are no stories like this. In those days almost everyone carried guns sometimes in public but they never engaged in such pointless behavior. They killed for revenge, in anger during a fight, or in a robbery attempt. There are no stories of someone entering a school for instance and shooting kids. 

People have always been violent. But not for silly and unproductive reasons. If they stopped a stage coach, then it was for robbery or maybe rape. But not to declare to the world some wild and pointless nonsense. Because that would gain them nothing. It would not gain them money or revenge etc. So they didn't do it.

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

If you read old true wild west magazines, there are no stories like this.

I caught this in Netfilx recently, nothing says it better then a good documentary, those old western films never tell the other side of those events. I am a fan of that part of history as well but the big picture is better then the stereotype film portrayals

 

 Bob Boze Bell, owner of True West magazine.

 

 

Most of the feuds in the old west were Republican towns people against Democrat rurals.

 

Lincoln County War.

Dems: John Tunstall and the cowboys including Billy the Kid

Republicans: The towns people including Sheriff Pat Garret.

 

 

Tombstone War

Dems: The Cowboys, Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn), Ike and Billy Clanton, Billy Clayborne (Wyatt Earp!!), Curly Bill Brocius (Powers Booth) (the actor who played Billy Clayborne was Wyatt Earp)

Republicans: Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russel) and brothers, the towns people, Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer)

 

Curly Bill, Doc Holiday, Wyatt, Johnny Ringo (Curly Bill says "Well, Bye")

 

 

 

Johnson Country War (movIe Heavens Gate):

Republicans: Cattle ranchers chasing rustlers.

Dems: Nate Champion: gunslinger (Christopher Walker), Ella Watson word not allowed (Isabelle Huppert), Jim Averell: Heavens Gate General Store owner (Chris Christopherson), Sheriff Bridges (Jeff Bridges).

 

Nate Champion, Ella Watson, Jim Averell

 

The drunk in this clip is Sheriff Bridges ( Jeff Bridges), the store that has the rink is Heavens Gate and is where the Polish immigrants (Dems) hang out.

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Fielder said:

 Bob Boze Bell, owner of True West magazine.

 

 

I’d seen Cowboy War as well, it’s good just strange they shot it in Canada that looks nothing like Tombstone. This is a good interview, nice find 👍

Val Kilmore was great at playing Doc as well, absolutely the best portrayal 

I enjoy all these films, I’m crazy enough to take a vacation to Tombstone someday, hopefully when I retire, I’d put a flower on the grave for China Mary at Boothill, she took care of a lot of people in that town, I tell her story in New Zealand because it’s an inspiring immigrants tale, more to that history than just the cowboys