GUY STEALS BOSS’S CAR, LEAVES IT ON TRAIN TRACKS

A 23-year-old man in Merungle Hill, New South Wales, Australia, was home on Saturday getting drunk, then decided to steal his boss’s Hyundai Tucson. He took off, went off the road, went through a deep gully, then hit a set of train tracks. After flying over the tracks, he then reversed the car back onto the tracks where it got stuck. That’s where he left it – on the tracks – and went home. The next morning a train traveling from Griffith to Sydney reached the spot where the car had been dumped. The driver saw it in time and stopped. A local farmer used his tractor to move the Hyundai from the tracks and the train continued on its journey. Police charged the man with negligent driving and causing obstruction to a train, among other charges.
* Like a little thing called Grand Theft Auto.
* This isn’t going to look good on his performance review.
* I remember this problem from algebra class: A train traveling from Griffith to Sydney leaves the station going 45 kilometers an hour, when it spots a car on the tracks. If the train decelerates at a rate of 7 feet per second, at what point must you apply the brakes to avoid hitting the car?
* And a bonus question for extra credit: How long will the guy who stole the car be in jail? Please show your work.
* PHONE TOPIC: Did you ever do anything to get back at your awful boss?