PSA- Don't Jump in Front of Trains

Williams 728
Homebrew Talk - Beer, Wine, Mead, & Cider Brewing Discussion Forum

Help Support Homebrew Talk - Beer, Wine, Mead, & Cider Brewing Discussion Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
CreamyGoodness

CreamyGoodness

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jul 19, 2011
Messages
7,392
Reaction score
2,125
Location
Ossining
Taking one's own life, particularly in such a violent fashion as jumping in front of a train, is no laughing matter. Before you jump, please see a licensed therapist, a clergyperson, or dial in to a 24 hour suicide hotline.

Because, let me tell you right now, the people stuck underground between stations for an hour and fifteen minutes on their morning commute are going to feel limited sympathy for you. At least one person will say "Sheeeeeeeet give me a rake and a hose and I'll get this train moving again.


 
Last edited by a moderator:
Yeah... I had posted about this same thing a few months ago...

A guy decided to step in front of an Acela train doing about 120 MPH about a mile north of my stop. He also decided to do this right before the evening commute. We were stopped on the tracks for a little over an hour before they rolled our PACKED train through the "crime scene" at about two miles an hour given the flood of cops and emergency workers on scene. As we rolled through, we're all thinking the scene was cleaned up.

ehhh... no. no it wasn't.

Lemme give ya a hint of what a body looks like after it was hit by a train doing 120 miles an hour... No piece was larger than, say... a forearm... but you could still tell what a majority of the peices used to be... including both "inside" and "outside" pieces. And they were EVVVVERYWHERE

That sucked. Bad. Like I was saying that day when I was posting about it... it's not the gore that got me. That stuff doesn't really bother me. It was the fact that, 90 minutes prior, that was just some guy walking around and was a whole person, probably with some family.
 
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Like somebody offing themself is going to be considerate of your commute!!!!!

Tell the Effing *****ebaggers that decide to ride their bike in the main road during rush hour.

They may or may not be depressed, but should have a lot more consideration for other people since they are actively trying to live longer.
 
Weird Al - Why does this always happen to me?


I was driving down the highway when all the traffic slowed to a crawl
There was a twelve-car pile-up, everybody dead
And I saw brains and guts and vital organs splattered everywhere
As well as my friend Robert's disembodied head

And I thought - Poor Rob, I just had lunch with him
Hey, wait a minute, he still owes me money - what a jerk
Well, there's five bucks that I'm never gonna see again
Plus now, on top of everything else, it looks like I'm gonna be late to work

Why does this always happen?
Why does this always happen to me?
Why does this always happen?
(Why) Why does this always happen to me?


EDIT: FYI - Ben Folds plays piano on this track.
 
Unfortunately a 15 year old girl just jumped in front of a train here two days ago, with a large crowd of her classmates as witnesses.

I've seen around 5-8 'man under' jobs as we call them. Very disgusting, and bodies don't normally bother me. But, one of them led to the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life, as sick as that sounds.

Long story short, the guy entered the system at a station that has seperate northbound and southbound entrances, unlike other stations that have one main mezzanine no matter what side of the street you enter on. Needless to say, he entered on the wrong side, swiping his card and paying the fare. Not wanting to re-pay, he decided to try crossing the tracks. He made it across the S/B track, and the express track, but a N/B train hit him. Somehow, this guy survived (only one I've ever seen personally). Unfortunately he lost his left arm and left leg. As he was being lifted into the ambulance, an Emergency Service cop asked him why he crossed the tracks. He explained what I said above about not wanting to swipe again. Totally dead pan, the cop responded, "So instead of $2.25, it cost you and arm and a leg."

How many people can actually say they saw something cost someone an arm and a leg, literally? :ban:
 
The conductor came into our car 45 minutes in to tell us they were considering doubling back to Grand Central because either a) someone was hit by a train at Spring Street or b) someone fell between cars onto the track.

If its b, I have a little more sympathy seeing as how it was an accident, but it says on the doors in huge font that there is no passing through while the train is moving... this is why.
 
If I was pissed off at life enough to kill myself, then **** you and your mother****ing commute - **** you up your stupid mother****ing ass, I hope you've got to sit in an ugly, smelly train car for five hours, with no working toilet and a full ****ing bladder, while they scrape my innards off the track. **** all of you ********. If I'm mad enough at how the world's treated me... then up yours!
 
A final act of defiance? You're mad enough at the world that you are not only willing to risk the well-being of numerous commuters but the lives and welfare of numerous others who depend on those people (everyone from the surgeon on his way to work to the nanny on hers to the cop who is needed on his beat in half an hour.

Sounds like that sort of person managed to be as big a liability in death that they were in life. Kind of epic, when you think about it.
 
Allow me to suggest hardcore porn and homebrew, that'll fix you right up.

What I dont understand is why do this at Spring St? Its such a nice part of town! If you want to go through with something like this, why not head to Brownsville or East New York in the other direction and really lose all hope?
 
CreamyGoodness said:
The conductor came into our car 45 minutes in to tell us they were considering doubling back to Grand Central because either a) someone was hit by a train at Spring Street or b) someone fell between cars onto the track.

If its b, I have a little more sympathy seeing as how it was an accident, but it says on the doors in huge font that there is no passing through while the train is moving... this is why.
Click to expand...

Either way it's still Darwinism, just saying. :)
 
I've never understood the need to involve others in offing yourself.

Get a gun, get some pills, hell get a damn knife or a rope...

Instead of taking care of your self in some secluded place you decide to subject some poor engineer who's just trying to make a living to the horrors of smashing someone with a train.
 
Airborneguy said:
I didn't get to see. I had to practically run away so I could burst out laughing away from anyone who might report me. :ban:
Click to expand...

You'd get in trouble for that???

I could see some doodybag making a bad PR issue out of it, but that is some pretty undeniably funny stuff!!
 
Its odd when gallows humor hits. Just yesterday a coworker said her mother caught ammonia. I had to fight myself to NOT say "dont let her get in contact with bleach or your mom could explode".

Not funny when your mom is in her 70s and has cancer.
 
CreamyGoodness said:
If its b, I have a little more sympathy seeing as how it was an accident, but it says on the doors in huge font that there is no passing through while the train is moving... this is why.
Click to expand...

+1 for Darwinism. I don't recall who has it as their as their signature on the bottom of all their posts but it makes me smile every time I read it. Something along the lines of

I'm not saying we should kill all the stupid people, but we should remove all the warnings and see how it plays out.

I was told even from a young age that my safety is my priority, not anyone else's. Even if someone else is liable for my safety (theoretically, an employer) I will still be the one stuck with a stump for an arm at the end of the day if I leave it up to them to mitigate any dangers around me regardless of how much money I may or may not win in court.

But as for suicide, I always thought it would be cool if someone decided to take themselves out in a blaze of glory. You hear about people who get themselves killed on purpose by instigating someone with a gun, i.e. maybe an officer or something, what if they went down to some gang turf and took out a few doojbague gangbanger bucketheads. You know they would shoot back and make sure he's dead. That would be one for the headlines. I'm not one for vigilante justice, but if you gotta do what you gotta do, why not make a lasting impression?
 
If I was going to take myself out, in a public place, I would make sure that:
A) I do it right, the first time
B) make it look like it wasn't a suicide
C) do something at least somewhat original
And...
D) say something completely bonkers like "Where's the goddamn beef?", "I am NOT the walrus!", or "Who shat their pants?"

Or I would want to go out doing something the was purely epic.
 
For the most part, suicidal big city dwellers don't own guns, if they do, most don't know how to use them. Apparently they either can't afford the drugs, or can't find a supplier. They have electric ovens. They don't own both cars AND garages. Apparently they either never heard of hemlock, or don't know where to get it. They're afraid electrocution will hurt and/or not be successful.

I say we get these Bozos to volunteer to be an American version of the suicide bomber. Ship 'em to Afghanistan, stap 'em with enough C-4 to level a house or two & send them to meet the taliban...

America kills another terrorist or 10, the suicidal bozo dies a hero & the taliban a$$holes get their 72 virgins in paradise; everybody wins.
It's all how you look at it. I'm just tryin to see the silver lining.
Regards, GF.
 
I think we should give everyone thinking about suicide a huge wheel of cheese. That way, when they're all like, "Oooooo. I have nothing to live for!" Other people can be all, "dude! What are you talking about!?! Look at all that cheese!"

Although.. What happens when the cheese runs out? I also see a scenario where people would fake being suicidal just to get cheese.

There may be some holes in this plan. I'll keep working on it and circle back.
 
gratus fermentatio said:
For the most part, suicidal big city dwellers don't own guns, if they do, most don't know how to use them. Apparently they either can't afford the drugs, or can't find a supplier. They have electric ovens. They don't own both cars AND garages. Apparently they either never heard of hemlock, or don't know where to get it. They're afraid electrocution will hurt and/or not be successful.
Click to expand...

Speeding trains, high buildings and huge bridges have higher success rates that even guns. Most people stick the gun in their mouth, bad move if you want to die and/or not live with no way to eat solid food. I've seen some creative suicides, but also many failures, mostly with guns and drugs.
 
I could really care less about a fool that wants to off themselves in front of a train. But I can tell you this. It really F's up the engineer's head. Just sayin.
 
Hammy71 said:
I could really care less about a fool that wants to off themselves in front of a train. But I can tell you this. It really F's up the engineer's head. Just sayin.
Click to expand...

That reminds me of a guy I heard about a few years back. He was in the Navy and was driving down a highway while on liberty. A car was pulled over on the side of the road where a man and a woman were having a heated argument. The woman pushed the guy, presumably not intending to push him into the road, but into the road he went. The guy driving hits the other guy going 70 mph. That apparently f***ed him up pretty bad and he ended up getting a medical discharge so he wouldn't lose his s*** while operating a submarine with 150 lives in his hands. Not suicide, but same idea.
 
Airborneguy said:
Speeding trains, high buildings and huge bridges have higher success rates that even guns. Most people stick the gun in their mouth, bad move if you want to die and/or not live with no way to eat solid food. I've seen some creative suicides, but also many failures, mostly with guns and drugs.
Click to expand...

Damn, feeling bad enough to snuff it & then failing to do so when they actually do attempt it? That's enough to give somebody a complex on top of a complex.

Not to start a debate, but maybe there's room in the world for a service to help them snuff it:

 
Last edited by a moderator:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/nyregion/train-kills-man-in-125th-street-subway-station.html?_r=0

Ok this is just getting stupid. I'm not even complaining that it took me an extra half hour to get home last night. I just dont understand how a person can get themselves in a situation in which they are falling off a train. Also, I am relatively certain that there are NYPD patrolling the 125th st. station in a booth. What makes getting into a fight on the platform seem like a wise thing to do??
 
CreamyGoodness said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/nyregion/train-kills-man-in-125th-street-subway-station.html?_r=0

Ok this is just getting stupid. I'm not even complaining that it took me an extra half hour to get home last night. I just dont understand how a person can get themselves in a situation in which they are falling off a train. Also, I am relatively certain that there are NYPD patrolling the 125th st. station in a booth. What makes getting into a fight on the platform seem like a wise thing to do??
Click to expand...

Sounds to me like they need to put a toilet on the train, oh wait the train travels thru a toilet, never mind.:)
 
Its always adorable when people in Chicago disparage New York. Its like watching a small child with a cardboard sword pretend to slay a dragon.
 
I would take NY over the second class city any day.

Besides I wasn't the one trying to defecate between two train cars and I lost my balance and killed myself. My point if there had been a toilet on the train, he wouldn't have fell.

I hope the guy wore clean underwear that day.
 
Seriously though... its not like getting hit by a car. Its pretty difficult to get hit by a train. Why does it happen so often?!
 
CreamyGoodness said:
Its pretty difficult to get hit by a train. Why does it happen so often?!
Click to expand...

Put down the smart phone, take off/out the ear phones, reconnect with the world.

Is it all that often? An article I read said 55 people died from being struck by subway train in NYC. How many people ride them and or are exposed to them in one year time?
 
whoaru99 said:
Put down the smart phone, take off/out the ear phones, reconnect with the world.

Is it all that often? An article I read said 55 people died from being struck by subway train in NYC. How many people ride them and or are exposed to them in one year time?
Click to expand...

You're right, its a miniscule number percentagewise, but 55 is still an awful high number when you realize that a train cant skid or veer or lose control of its steering and get you. You have to actually fall or jump several feet onto a rather wide track.
 

Similar threads

RedFlagBrewing
My Journey to Belgium to Buy Westvleteren
Replies
20
Views
3K
IslandLizard
IslandLizard
Brewpastor
Don't Try This at Home - A Day in the Life
Replies
11
Views
4K
Danek
D

Latest posts

Back
Top