When A Hobo Went Wrong

B. According to the facts, he was a hobo and he was hitching a ride on a railroad train. If he was a hobo then it was reasonably foreseeable that he could not afford to get a ride on the train the proper way and would try to get a ride an alternative way. Railroad officials should have anticipated that hobos could be around and they should have thought about how they would deal with hobos and other people who couldn’t afford a ride. The hobo was hitching a ride on a railroad train and that is a highly dangerous activity. It was certainly foreseeable that something bad would happen when someone is engaged in this dangerous activity. The hobo should have used common sense and not have hitched a ride on a railroad train. But then again he was a hobo and he may have known that he was engaging in a dangerous activity and just not have cared. He was a hobo so there most likely wasn’t a high expectation of him to not hitch a ride on a railroad train. In addition, society …show more content…
The hobo had to know that it would unsafe for him to be hitching a ride on a moving train going at high speed not to mention all of the turns that the train went through and the bumps that the train went over. It can also be reasonably anticipated that a hobo would be near the railroad train and that since they couldn’t afford to actually get on that they might try something dangerous like hitching a ride on a train. After all, they’re a hobo and they have nothing to lose. The railroad company could definitely anticipate something like this happening.
The hobos counter analysis would be that there should be warning signs near or on the train that explicitly state that “hitching a ride on the train is dangerous” or “Don’t hitch a ride on the train” or something along those lines. He could also try to argue that he didn’t know it was dangerous. Lastly, he could argue that he should have been let onto the