Let's see how this works out yeah?

TIL in 1896 a temporary, one-day city was named in Texas called Crush, where two locomotives were to be smashed head-on for purposes of spectacle. It was, for a few hours, the 2nd largest city in TX with 40k attendees. The collision caused engine boilers to explode, resulting in death and injuries.

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas

you could just do shit back then

texas is still like this

The guy who organized the event was legitimately called William Crush (nominative determinism). Immediately after the incident he was fired from the Katy railroad, but they quietly rehired him three days later when there turned out to be little in the way of public outcry.

"Well There's Your Problem" Did a truly fantastic episode about it:

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