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03-08-2015, 12:18 AM
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Re: Man Killed After Playing Around With A Moving Train
My analysis: (lol) I think this could be a suicide attempt by the person who is farthest towards the other side and the person that got hit looks to me like they were trying to appeal to the other person to change their mind about committing suicide. Then the other train got too close and time ran out. Then the person tried to retreat and was too slow and was hit.
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#112
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03-08-2015, 07:55 AM
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 My Rank: MASTER GUNNERY SERGEANT Poster Rank:327 I am Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 3,897 Mentioned: 6 Post(s) Quoted: 2467 Post(s)
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Re: Man Killed After Playing Around With A Moving Train
It actually looks like the guy was trying to commit suicide, and the girl tried to stop him.
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#113
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03-08-2015, 12:41 PM
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 I POOP ON U Poster Rank:126 Female Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 12,645
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Re: Man Killed After Playing Around With A Moving Train
Some say it's a suicide + failed attempt at stopping it, but I wonder it was an attention-seeking stunt gone wrong.
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#115
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03-20-2017, 05:35 AM
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Re: Man Killed After Playing Around With A Moving Train
I realize this is an old post, but reading the comments I'm amazed that people think this was suicide. You have what look to be three boys, waiting in a walkway/sidewalk area for a train to pass. As a passing train can sometimes feel interminable, they start joking around about halfway through, peering through the passing cars and pretending like they can slip through. While doing so, another train coming in the opposite direction approaches unnoticed because of the noise and light of the first train. That's how the two boys furthest out in front are suddenly struck, by surprise. I remember reading that this happens fairly often to people who hang out by train tracks - they get fixated on the noise and commotion of one train, and then another quickly arrives from the opposite direction, surprising everyone and ending in the loss of life. There was a more recent video of something very similar happening in what looked to be India - a group of children playing by the tracks, laughing at the site of one train, and then another suddenly arrives, striking and killing them. Just had to speak up, as I was surprised by the suicide comments. RIP regardless to those involved. |
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#116
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03-20-2017, 12:34 PM
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 My Rank: MAJOR Poster Rank:36 Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 39,787 Mentioned: 147 Post(s) Quoted: 19433 Post(s)
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Re: Man Killed After Playing Around With A Moving Train
scary stuff. i remember as a kid we used to do stupid stuff like place coins on the tracks, but not where trains were going in high speed.
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#118
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03-21-2017, 01:53 PM
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| The Candyman With the Windowless Van Poster Rank:143 Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 11,493 Mentioned: 32 Post(s) Quoted: 6099 Post(s)
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I always placed them where the trains were going at high speed to be sure that they would be thoroughly flattened. Nothing scary about it - just pay attention to what you're doing. I still have those coins, more than 60 years later.
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#119
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03-21-2017, 07:18 PM
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 ♚ Legacy Gold Member ♚ Poster Rank:1352 Male Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 443 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 80 Post(s)
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Re: Man Killed After Playing Around With A Moving Train
It's not hard.....You'd be surprised how fast they come down before you realize it. I work on the railroad-on live track-and they come flying down. But, yes, what they were doing was just careless and stupid.
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