Actor and fitness instructor Greg Plitt was struck and killed by a train

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Actor Killed by Metrolink Train in BurbankBy EMILY SHAPIROJan 18, 2015, 2:05 PM

Actor and fitness instructor Greg Plitt was struck and killed by a train just north of Los Angeles Saturday, officials said.

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Plitt was in Burbank with friends when he was hit by a Metrolink train a few minutes after 4 p.m., Burbank Police Department Watch Commander Scott Meadows told ABC News today.

Plitt, 37, was found dead at the scene.

Burbank police say the actor and one of his friends had been carrying cameras at the time.

"We do require film permits if you're outdoors, but there was no permit on file," Meadows said.

The cameras have been seized as evidence.

Police have interviewed Plitt's friends, witnesses and the roughly 185 people on the train at the time of the collision, but detectives are still "trying to determine exactly what happened," Meadows said.

Plitt, an actor and fitness model, is in the Bravo reality dating show "Friends to Lovers," which premieres Monday, Variety reports. Plitt also appeared in Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro's boxing film "Grudge Match," and the Bravo docu-series "Work Out," according to Variety.

The accident remains under investigation, police said today, and the coroner will determine the official cause of death.
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[kawilt]

What's a film permit? I mean when do you have to get a permit to film something? Everything? or just certain places.
Never mind...I just looked it up on google. A bit of confusion over there I guess.

 

[boodecarlo]

That sucks. I thought it was one of those hoax reports when I first seen it. He seemed like a really solid person. I know he helped motivate & change alot of peoples lives. You just never know when it's your time. He'll be missed.

 

[ShredMN]

Dude was fucking around on the train tracks with a damn video camera as the train was blowing it's horn...

I'm sorry, but Greg is an idiot. Self-righteous fool who claims natty up and down the street, meanwhile has photos of him where he was 30+ pounds heavier than his current weight at the time of death.

Yeah, because natty people would want to downsize to a more natural size so people wouldn't question their drug usage... He cared about money, not being honest with the people he motivated. There are many, many people out there who are highly motivating in any industry... But I cannot claim Greg ever motivated me in the slightest bit because of his attitude in his videos. He acts like some fake philosopher in most the videos I've seen him in... Not to mention the dude was a sell-out to "reality" TV.

I'd call this incident "natural selection." You play in train tracks while a train is coming at you, you're going to die. You can't fix stupid, but the world can negate it by killing you.

 

[boodecarlo]

Dude was fucking around on the train tracks with a damn video camera as the train was blowing it's horn...

I'm sorry, but Greg is an idiot. Self-righteous fool who claims natty up and down the street, meanwhile has photos of him where he was 30+ pounds heavier than his current weight at the time of death.

Yeah, because natty people would want to downsize to a more natural size so people wouldn't question their drug usage... He cared about money, not being honest with the people he motivated. There are many, many people out there who are highly motivating in any industry... But I cannot claim Greg ever motivated me in the slightest bit because of his attitude in his videos.

I'd call this incident "natural selection." You play in train tracks while a train is coming at you, you're going to die. You can't fix stupid, but the world can negate it by killing you.

Bad form. Death isn't anything to be taken lightly. I personally know alot of people he motivated. That's someone's son, brother or friend. Have a little decency or don't say anything. Plus he served this country.

 

[Ozzy619]

Every year at work we have presentations from different agencies. A couple years back it was BNSF since we work along railways sometimes. Some of the pics were pretty nasty. They said a train hitting a human is equilvalent of it hitting a watermelon, they just explode and get torn to shit. They also said alot of people commit suicide by train. I guess alot of people cant compensate how fast the train is really going and before they know it, its too late. They also said its illgal to be on the tracks anywhere other than a designated crossing. They found pics a local photographer took for a couple on the tracks and fined him for trespassing and had him remove the photos from his website. So whatever this dude was filming without a permit could have never seen the lightof day legally.

 

[boodecarlo]

Yea I had to go through a class like that because we were working on the tracks. It was at the connecting ward where they move around slow & you can't hear them coming up behind you. Before you know it you're either pinned better two locking up or they knock you down & run you over. Those videos they showed us were pretty gruesome.

 

[ShredMN]

Human death is not sacred, not in my book anyway. The world is way too overpopulated with humans who cause more death and destruction than any other species could imagine.

Morbid view on death? Yes. Reality? Yes.

I'm not extremely sympathetic to humans because humanity is corrupt beyond belief. Believing we are above even an ant is obnoxious. We are destroying our planet, as well as millions, if not billions, of species' planet as well.

Earth is not "our" planet. Religion has placed humanity above all else and now most everyone shares that viewpoint. We are no greater than the mosquito who tries to suck our blood for sustenance. We are nothing more than "intelligent" apes, but our intelligence is greatly exaggerated. I'd call a species who destroys their habit extremely dumb and futile.

Most people don't even feel remorse for running over a squirrel in their car, because it's just "a dumb squirrel." But as soon as some guy dies in the news, everyone feels bad for them even though they have never met them in person, and probably would not have even cared they existed had they not heard of their death.

My sympathy on this Earth as far as death goes lies in the species we are causing to become extinct... Not in the humans who destroy the planet for power and greed.

 

[MythotiK]

Death is not sacred, not in my book anyway. The world is way too overpopulated with humans who cause more death and destruction than any other species could imagine.

Morbid view on death? Yes. Reality? Yes.

I'm not extremely sympathetic to humans because humanity is corrupt beyond belief. Believing we are above even an ant is obnoxious. We are destroying our planet, as well as millions, if not billions, of species' planet as well.

Earth is not "our" planet. Religion has placed humanity above all else and now most everyone shares that viewpoint. We are no greater than the mosquito who tries to suck our blood for sustenance.

Most people don't even feel remorse for running over a squirrel in their car, because it's just "a dumb squirrel." But as soon as some guy dies in the news, everyone feels bad for them even though they have never met them in personal, and probably would not have even cared they existed had they not heard of their death.

My sympathy on this Earth as far as death goes lies in the species we are causing to become extinct. Not in the humans who destroy the planet for power and money.

I like you

 

[boodecarlo]

Honestly lets have this conversation when you're a little older & your views change a little. Because you honestly sound like you're young & very inexperienced on this topic.

 

[ShredMN]

I'm 24 and know many, many people who have either committed suicide or have died. My next door neighbor whom I grew up with, and played with on a regular basis, hung himself in his garage rafters a month or two ago. I felt bad about it, sure, but I didn't cling to his death as if that would bring him back, I took it for what it was. Sure, it sucks. But there are much bigger problems on this Earth than the death of humans. Calling someone "inexperienced" because their viewpoints of death differ from yours isn't accurate. My viewpoints on the subject wont change as I age, they will likely become reinforced as things progress for the worse.

I don't "hate" humans, but I don't hold them on a pedestal as many do. I cherish the social aspects of human life as much as the next person... But my viewpoints of death just differ from yours greatly.

Death is transitional. It's either the end of everything, or the beginning of something much greater... Depending on what type of views you have.

 

[boodecarlo]

Well my views used to be just like yours until the day I found one of my best friends dead & I sat there giving a cold body CPR knowing he was gone. I think about him all the time. So it is what it is, I won't change your views & you won't mine.

 

[ShredMN]

Well my views used to be just like yours until the day I found one of my best friends dead & I sat there giving a cold body CPR knowing he was gone. I think about him all the time. So it is what it is, I won't change your views & you won't mine.

That is tragic, and I'm sure it does haunt you... But you can cling onto the pain or you can end the suffering. The choice is yours.

I'm not religious, but I hope there is an afterlife... But if there isn't I wont be disappointed as I won't know about my own death.

Death is nothing more than a release from the suffering we all endure.

 

[ebkallday]

Plitt was a bad ass wrestler. From
one former college wrestler and bodybuilder to another, RIP. Dude was a bad ass. Made money, kicked ass, fucked around, and looked good doing it. I can't tell you how many times I've done stupid ass shit that I almost died doing.

 

[MassTurk]

Are you a robot or hating humans You mean all the other humans. That's a statement of a sociopath .

 

[ShredMN]

Just to add one last thing.

The current human birth rate far exceeds the current mortality rate. Something needs to change, and quickly before all species perish, including us humans.

 

[boodecarlo]

That is tragic, and I'm sure it does haunt you... But you can cling onto the pain or you can end the suffering. The choice is yours.

I'm not religious, but I hope there is an afterlife... But if there isn't I wont be disappointed as I won't know about my own death.

Death is nothing more than a release from the suffering we all endure.

I agree with alot of what you say. Didn't mean disrspect. Hay ain't none of us getting out of this thing alive haha.

 

[ShredMN]

Not a sociopath, just a realist.

Last time I ran over a squirrel with my car I shed a tear, and my entire day was ruined because of it. I'm also the guy who escorts spiders out of my house in the palm of my hand, rather than squash them because they "shouldn't be in my house."

I stop for all squirrels that look like they may be suicidal now. Even if some asshole is tail-gating me... And I continue to spare the lives of spiders who enter my home looking for food and shelter from the environment.

No life is above the next. Especially not human life.

 

[boodecarlo]

Plitt was a bad ass wrestler. From
one former college wrestler and bodybuilder to another, RIP. Dude was a bad ass. Made money, kicked ass, fucked around, and looked good doing it. I can't tell you how many times I've done stupid ass shit that I almost died doing.

Ain't that the truth.

 

[ShredMN]

Plitt was a bad ass wrestler. From
one former college wrestler and bodybuilder to another, RIP. Dude was a bad ass. Made money, kicked ass, fucked around, and looked good doing it. I can't tell you how many times I've done stupid ass shit that I almost died doing.

I've also done a lot of stupid shit in my younger days, some things that definitely should have killed me. I fell thirty feet out of the air on my snowboard 5 years ago and walked away with only a few fractured vertebrae... I should be either paralyzed or dead.

If I had died, I certainly wouldn't want my family to be extremely depressed for years about it... And I wouldn't want people I had never met to feel sympathetic to my death, either.

Most people don't give two shits about people they haven't met, but they will be the first ones to express their so called "sympathy" after hearing about the death of someone they don't know. It's nothing but a farce put on by people who have been told humans are to be held as sacred.