M50 traffic slow this evening because of "personal tragedy"..

HeyThereDeliah

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Why is that, more people de through suicide than are killed on the roads, an issue needs to be made of it. We need to talk about it or it will always be taboo.

It's not taboo anymore plenty of awareness and talk about suicide at the moment. Comparing it to road deaths is not the answer, you can make roads safer but it's the driver who is to blame in most accidents.
Sometimes all the help in the world will not stop someone doing what they feel is the right thing for them.

Gumbo

msg11 wrote: »

Nah they are just useless in general. Though they might have got there act together. Sure one of the cameras is called 'The Blanchardstown Roundabout', thing is there is no roundabout it's gone about a year and the camera is looking at well nothing.

Few real time cameras wouldn't go a miss.

Wouldn't surprise me if DCC turned off all there cameras off over one incident.

Would you cop the fcuk on.
A women has attempted to take their on life and you want a real time camera to view it.

charlietheminxx

I hate hearing stories like this.

My heart goes out to all those involved and who witnessed it.

SunnyDub1

Awful news if it's true. Is there anything in the papers about it ?

Link anyone ?

EDIT : link - http://www.independent.ie/national-news/woman-critical-after-bridge-fall-3255591.html

Hope the poor woman recovers. It says in the link that she fell, not attempted suicide

Mental Mickey

kceire wrote: »

Would you cop the fcuk on.
A women has attempted to take their on life and you want a real time camera to view it.

This is what happens when you have the internet at the hands of gobs***es like that.

I hate AH.

gbee

akura wrote: »

Soooo what's a personal tragedy??

Code for suicide imo

stmol32

I really hate the game of chinese whispers that is AH.
7 pages in and no-one has any knowledge of what happened but still a lot of posters post their guesses and when another poster reposts these guesses then they suddenly magically become fact.

I can't find a single news source other than the very small irish independent article someone helpfully posted earlier.
The problem with this article is it still gives very little detail, it doesn't say which hospital she was bought to for exmple even though this is fairly standard in a report.

(I realise this next bit is my own guesswork) The article seems to me to be a journalist who is reading the internet "reporting" of this incident and copying that out. Complete conjecture I know but it has happened before.

Also, I have been unable to find any instances of the phrase "personal tragedy" being used in news reports about suicide. It certainly is a personal teragedy but I can't find any examples of it being report as such in the media.

The basic point I'm making is, until you know for sure what has happened make it known that your posts are just your opinion for the moment. Not just for this incident but all the rest to follow.

gbee

Mental Mickey wrote: »

I hate AH.

Thanks for the contribution, will you be joining us on the I hate snow forum, on the weather forum again this year?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

stmol32 wrote: »

(I realise this next bit is my own guesswork) The article seems to me to be a journalist who is reading the internet "reporting" of this incident and copying that out. Complete conjecture I know but it has happened before.

Also, I have been unable to find any instances of the phrase "personal tragedy" being used in news reports about suicide. It certainly is a personal teragedy but I can't find any examples of it being report as such in the media.
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The "personal tragedy" thing came from a TV3 journalist on twitter. He posted last night that the m50 was closed at that junction due to "a personal tragedy". Silly way of reporting it because that to me looks like someone he knows has been involved, which I'm sure is not what he was saying. They could have just said incident or accident, people would have assumed crash and it wouldn't have gotten so out of hand. Some of the things I was hearing last night were unbelievable, where people get these ideas from is worrying.

Mental Mickey

gbee wrote: »

Thanks for the contribution, will you be joining us on the I hate snow forum, on the weather forum again this year?

Well done for conveniently omitting the rest of my post. And, to answer your "question": I don't know if I will be "joining" you on either of those forums..I can't predict the weather.

Have a nice day.

stmol32

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

The "personal tragedy" thing came from a TV3 journalist on twitter. He posted last night that the m50 was closed at that junction due to "a personal tragedy". Silly way of reporting it because that to me looks like someone he knows has been involved, which I'm sure is not what he was saying. They could have just said incident or accident, people would have assumed crash and it wouldn't have gotten so out of hand. Some of the things I was hearing last night were unbelievable, where people get these ideas from is worrying.

I couldn't agree more.
It's perfectly acceptable to wonder what's happenning and discuss possibilities on boards but some of the unbelievable things that people were bandying about somehow morphed into the appearance fact a few posts later.

I'm also concerned about the issue of a journalist posting on twitter.
Is he tweeting as a private citizen who is held up in traffic or is he actually reporting as a journalist who has been in comntact with the garda press office or someone who can give the correct information.

JonathanAnon

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

A Miss Marple rubber necker thread, with a sprinkling of judgmental insensitivity. Nice.

Well you certainly have that part covered for us.. thanks..

El Weirdo

I'm really not seeing any point in leaving this open any longer.