Death by train?

Kimono-Girl

The amount of people hit by trains on train tracks lately is unreal, is there gold on the tracks or what? :eek:

and how do they not hear the trains coming???

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0704/train.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0624/spain.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0628/clare.html

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KeithM89_old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SukTBSJJ4KM

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Peyton Manning

Say OP, what do you think about videos of people being hit by trains being made public like...oh I don't know....being posted online?

alwaysadub

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Jesus man, don't post that without a NSFW warning at the very least!!!!:eek:
People should read the comments before deciding if they are going to watch it.

I'm still having nightmares a year later:mad:

Thomas828

That's something I don't understand. We in London have got hundreds of railway lines. It's like a mass of spaghetti. But people getting killed on a railway track are rare.

Cookie_Monster

not a bad way to go. chance of surviving is minimal and nothing left to bury, only powerhose

**Timbuk2**

Keithm89 wrote: »

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Post reported. I think I'm going to be sick

El Siglo

Keithm89 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SukTBSJJ4KM

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I thought you meant this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4H6VAEtfs

thomasj

its a selfish way to leave this world leaves family and friends with many unanswered questions not to mention the hurt and pain they go through.

And what about the driver? I could not stomach to witness something like this, i couldn't begin to imagine what the driver goes through after this!

alwaysadub

El Siglo wrote: »

I thought you meant this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4H6VAEtfs

Fcuking spanner!!

pablomakaveli

Heard some horror stories when i worked in the railway a few years ago. One guy there had a suicide there on his first week. Another guy had depression after witnessing two suicides which happened within around a week of each other.

When i was there, there was a suicide by thurles. I remember when the inspector got a phone call from the lads on the train just after it happened.

It happens more than you'd think but is rarely reported on.

El Siglo

alwaysadub wrote: »

Fcuking spanner!!

It would have made a great Darwin award.

thomasj

i'm just glad i'm on the mobile website and cannot see any of those videos. i've just eaten!! :O

starbelgrade

El Siglo wrote: »

I thought you meant this one...

Would have been a lot funnier if a second train came along at the end.

monkeyfudge

candlelover wrote: »

and how do they not hear the trains coming???

It actually can be hard to hear a train from the tracks. The sound moves from the sides of the train, not to the front.

Cookie_Monster

thomasj wrote: »

i'm just glad i'm on the mobile website cannot see any of those videos i've just eaten

why have you just eaten a load of videos?

JuliusCaesar

Thomas828 wrote: »

That's something I don't understand. We in London have got hundreds of railway lines. It's like a mass of spaghetti. But people getting killed on a railway track are rare.

50 suicides a year on the Tube....140 on other train tracks....

J2D2

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It actually can be hard to hear a train from the tracks. The sound moves from the sides of the train, not to the front.

So is it common for people to hang on out on railway tracks?

It's just natural selection tbh.

thomasj

:pac: excuse my punctuation have one of those phones that will put you off texting

Fixed!!

Cookie_Monster

thomasj wrote: »

its a selfish way to leave this world leaves family and friends with many unanswered questions not to mention the hurt and pain they go through.

I don't think you'd really care about that if you were going to jump in front of a train in the first place

thomasj wrote: »

And what about the driver? I could not stomach to witness something like this, i couldn't begin to imagine what the driver goes through after this!

It's come up on C&T a few times, seemingly there is quite a big support system in place for drivers. Leave, counceling and so forth.

fryup

another method of suicide

Kimono-Girl

fryup wrote: »

another method of suicide

is it though?

"12 people were killed when a high-speed train hit them as they tried to cross a railway line to get to a festival on a beach near Barcelona late last night."

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^

maybe not in that case, but when its one person it usually is

Jeboa Safari

Anyone committing suicide by jumping in front of a train is exteremly selfish in my opinion, no thought to how it affects others, particularily the driver

RoRoCullen

Either suicide or extremely drunk

Bodhisopha

My grandad was the driver for 3 suicides. Doubt they had the same support systems in place for the drivers that they had back then.

vampire of kilmainham

alwaysadub wrote: »

Fcuking spanner!!

TYPICAL OF WHAT A THICK CULCHIE WOULD DO:eek::eek::eek: