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Title: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: TG on September 11, 2008, 03:11:44 PM
Colleague of mine was twenty minutes late getting home last night. He takes the train but it seems someone 'went under' and he had to get the bus instead.

It seems 'went unders' happen more than we think.

How selfish is that?

Not to mention the poor bastards that have to scrape up the chunks, tell the family etc.

And the family of course who are left grieving / frantically searching for the will (* delete as appropriate).

They should be more considerate. Train platforms are depressing enough as it is.

Selfish bastards.  cussing:



bored

Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Bar Wench on September 11, 2008, 03:16:39 PM
I'm sure I've started this one before!

I've always thought that it would be prefereable for them to top themselves round about 10:00am. Enough after the morning commute and early enough to not intefere with getting home.

It used to happen to me all the time. There is a bridge just before Mitcham Junction that is notorious for it.
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: tel on September 11, 2008, 03:21:27 PM
Which bridge?
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Bar Wench on September 11, 2008, 03:46:24 PM
If you are facing the tram lines it is to the right.
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Barman on September 11, 2008, 04:16:34 PM
I did some work for London Underground, part of which was being shown under a train…

The Engineers pointed out the bits of human stuck underneath and reckoned that every single train had some…  noooo:
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Snoopy on September 11, 2008, 04:20:25 PM
I've said it before but I'll say it again. It has to take some courage to head butt a 125.
There must be a point when, as the train hurtles toward you, when you think "This is going to hurt".
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Pastis on September 11, 2008, 04:39:03 PM
I was on a 125 once going North and in conversation with the gent opposite me. He was a trade butcher as it turned out and quite a tough nut in appearance. He was facing the horses and suddenly, mid-conversation, shouted "Oh Shit!!" as a body flew by the window eeek:

Train screeched to a halt a mile or two up the track, mobile phones phoning emergency services etc. Took about an hour before we were under way... much tea and sympathy were exchanged ~ felt like I'd made a friend. cry:
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on September 11, 2008, 05:25:13 PM
A friend at another school comitted suicide by putting two sharpened pencils up his nostrils and then smashing his head on the desk. During an exam.

I'd prefer the InterCity route, personally.
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: TG on September 11, 2008, 05:38:38 PM
I've said it before but I'll say it again. It has to take some courage to head butt a 125.
There must be a point when, as the train hurtles toward you, when you think "This is going to hurt".

Or....'This is going to make some bastard late for work'
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Snoopy on September 11, 2008, 05:48:58 PM
A friend at another school comitted suicide by putting two sharpened pencils up his nostrils and then smashing his head on the desk. During an exam.

I'd prefer the InterCity route, personally.

That's horrible!


And I thought for a minute you were going to say "he also put his underpants on his head and said Wibble"

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Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Just One More on September 13, 2008, 08:59:34 AM
I suspect I may have misread the tone of this thread rubschin:

Surely none of you think that these people are of sound mind when they commit or attemp to commit suicide.
Title: Re: Inconsiderate suicides.
Post by: Snoopy on September 13, 2008, 10:03:43 AM
Know where you are coming from JOM. Done a little of it myself and I am aware that the Transport Police work very hard to find all the bits before the local wildlife "clean" up.