File under “only in Mexico”, this is pretty shocking: street vendors in Cuautitlan, Mexico are operating their businesses on live train tracks:
In spite of the frequent passing of trains some 500 vendors set up their stalls on the train tracks and offer their merchandise to thousands od people who visit this market each week.The “tianguis” [outdoor market] sits 300 meters away from parallel tracks where on December 28th a crash between a passenger bus and a train took place, leaving 22 dead and nine injured.
According to Mexican daily El Universal, the vendors say “we have time to run,” and are referred to as “toreros” because of their way of evading the passing trains, and thus their deaths.
Via / El Universal
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Reality TV — America’s collective crack pipe — can sometimes be unbearable to watch, but who knew that it could also be deadly?