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Renowned fitness instructor, model and actor Greg Plitt has died after being hit by a train in Southern California.
The 37-year-old had been filming on the tracks with two other men when he was struck by a passenger train, police said.
Witnesses told investigators they saw Plitt standing on the track north of the Burbank station even as the train's horn was blaring.
Investigators have ruled out suicide.
Greg Plitt, born George Plitt Jr, had featured on over 200 magazine covers, primarily fitness magazines.
His workout videos on YouTube regularly attracted millions of viewers.
Editor-in-chief of Muscle & Fitness magazine
It is not immediately clear what the group had been filming, although some reports suggest it was an advert for protein shake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDGvbXQ6pTo
The 37-year-old had been filming on the tracks with two other men when he was struck by a passenger train, police said.
Witnesses told investigators they saw Plitt standing on the track north of the Burbank station even as the train's horn was blaring.
Investigators have ruled out suicide.
Greg Plitt, born George Plitt Jr, had featured on over 200 magazine covers, primarily fitness magazines.
His workout videos on YouTube regularly attracted millions of viewers.
Editor-in-chief of Muscle & Fitness magazine
It is not immediately clear what the group had been filming, although some reports suggest it was an advert for protein shake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDGvbXQ6pTo
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Trained all his life. I smell irony.
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He was just getting his life back on-track too. Shame.
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Ripped to shreds apparently
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wow,looked like the bloke we'd all mostly like to be if it didn't require so much damned effort
 life can be wiped out in an instant if youre not paying attention |
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Fitness Gurus preach the dangers of overtraining but he never saw the danger of undertrain.
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A man dies and all you lot can think of is silly puns.
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you have to wonder at people when they stand on railway lines...
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Another points-less death...
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under training---brilliant
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Chuffed to bits
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With all that training, no wonder he feels a bit run down.
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Back High Lay Low • January 19, 2015 10:05 AM GMT
A man dies and all you lot can think of is silly puns. Makes me very cross. Accuse us of being silly. Standing on live/in use railway tracks who is the silly 1. I have very little sympathy for folks who throw their lives away through unbelievable stupidity. |
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Oh right, I thought it was a Crossrail pun.
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don't want to derail the thread and be serious for a moment, but he must of had a loco-motive moment and lost his train of thought, r.i.p.
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bonus points for scandanavian
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He was certainly looking a lot buffer before he got hit by that train.
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Shunter been on the track .Simple as.
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one of film crew saying --they got times of train wrong
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I'm guessing a jealous Fat Controller was behind this
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Greg Splitt
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Coulter said the two-person crew told him Plitt was attempting to get action shots —possibly playing off the old Superman expression that the superhero is "more powerful than a locomotive" — for a video to go on his website.
Coulter said he the film crew told him Plitt misjudged the situation and tripped and fell before he was hit by the train. "He just made a mistake," Coulter said. "It was just a freaky moment where something got out of control." Plitt's girlfriend, Christina Stejskal, told The Times he was "just trying to get the best shot." |
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Greg Plitt was on train track without permit, trying to film himself as a superhero, when he was killed.
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Brave man, a-freight of nothing ?
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Nothing but the bogey, man.
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