PSA- Don't Jump in Front of Trains

[nukebrewer]

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.

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.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

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.

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:

 

[CreamyGoodness]

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??

 

[Airplanedoc]

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??

Sounds to me like they need to put a toilet on the train, oh wait the train travels thru a toilet, never mind.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

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.

 

[Airplanedoc]

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.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

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?!

 

[Airborneguy]

Just happened again. Thankfully I had the desk so I'm leaving!

 

[whoaru99]

Its pretty difficult to get hit by a train. Why does it happen so often?!

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?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

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?

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.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Since I posted last I have seen 2 new cases in the paper. Some genius is suggesting a track alarm that will ring if a person winds up on the tracks. We have ever inflating fares, and somehow we are going to pay for track alarms. My sympathies for anyone who winds up on the tracks (and wasnt pushed or thrown) is quite limited.

 

[Airborneguy]

Had an attempted suicide on SI yesterday at the train.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Had an attempted suicide on SI yesterday at the train.

Good Lord. What is going on with people lately??

 

[Airborneguy]

Winter doldrums? Seriously though it has been a lot. As someone who has seen a few too many, I can guarantee that jumpin in front of a train would not be my preferred way to leave this planet voluntarily.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I hear ya. Looks violent, hugely painful, and slow.

 

[user 51917]

go on and get it over with then,
find yourself a bridge and jump,
but you better get it right the first time
cause theres nothing worse than a suicide chump

Frank Zappa

 

[Airborneguy]

Very... disgusting... painful... and disgusting...

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I know you have to be pretty mentally ill to kill yourself, especially like that... but again, its kind of a dick move. You guys are trained to deal with it (not that you want to) but what about the conductor? other straphangers who are stuck in the train?

And here's one time and one time only I'll say this... what if someone's kid witnesses you becoming a human waterballoon?

 

[Airborneguy]

To tell you the truth, we're really not trained to deal with that stuff. My first experience with a dead body was searching what was left of the clothing of someone who had run back into a burning apartment to retrieve cash. She was burnt beyond any recognition. I don't even remember being shown pictures in the academy. Honestly though, what can they really do to prepare you for that? The smell of a good rotting body is nothing that can be described. I believe in the past they used to bring recruits to the morgue but that's been gone for a long time.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I dont envy you, even if you do get lederhosen thrown at you from time to time.

 

[Airplanedoc]

I was nearby when a guy got cooked by 100KV. Let me tell you the smell is unforgettable, and not in a mmmmm, smells like bacon sort of way. Fortunately for him, he probably never knew what happened.