Woman killed herself in front of my train today...

[SLCentral]

Was taking the train from NYC to Princeton, NJ, and a woman jumped in front of the train at the New Brunswick station, and got hit. Sad story, I wonder what got her to get to that point.
The train was commisioned out of service, and another train came to take us the rest of the way.

 

[dartworth]

🙁

 

[Koing]

🙁

Koing

 

[BrokenVisage]

🙁

 

[OrganizedChaos]

that sucks. its one thing to kill yourself, but if your going to make a trainload of people late well thats just mean.

 

[monk3y]

That's horrible 🙁

 

[Kevin1211]

goddamn.. if i saw that i would have nightmares for years.. 🙁

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
goddamn.. if i saw that i would have nightmares for years.. 🙁

Yeah, thank god I was on the train and didn't see it.

 

[IlllI]

nvm

 

[alien42]

for a minute there i thought you were a conductor

 

[mwtgg]

Wow, that's selfish. How badly were you delayed?

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

I'm sure the last thing on her mind is whether she is being mean or not by her decision. If she still had such thoughts and cared what other people thought of her, perhaps she wouldn't be in that situation in the first place.

 

[Armitage]

Wow - of all the ways to off yourself, I can't see jumping in front of a train being one I'd choose.

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Wow, that's selfish. How badly were you delayed?

2 hours.

 

[Ime]

Originally posted by: Armitage
Wow - of all the ways to off yourself, I can't see jumping in front of a train being one I'd choose.

Seems pretty messy.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: SLCentral

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Wow, that's selfish. How badly were you delayed?

2 hours.

What a bitch.

Originally posted by: Ime

Originally posted by: Armitage
Wow - of all the ways to off yourself, I can't see jumping in front of a train being one I'd choose.

Seems pretty messy.

Not only did she delay all of those people 2 hours, but she just ruined someone's Sunday.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Ime

Originally posted by: Armitage
Wow - of all the ways to off yourself, I can't see jumping in front of a train being one I'd choose.

Seems pretty messy.

Yea - almost sounds like they want to make some kind of a statement. Not just die.

 

[thirdlegstump]

I absolutely hate people who kill themselves while risking the lives of others. If you're going to do it, do it privately. Very disrespectful and pathetic.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Armitage
Wow - of all the ways to off yourself, I can't see jumping in front of a train being one I'd choose.

I think I'd go with jumping out of a plane with no parachute. That would be one hell of a ride.

 

[Mrvile]

Jeez that sucks. Seeing someone die like that is something that not everyone sees in their life and has to be one of the worst. 🙁 🙁

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: SLCentral
Was taking the train from NYC to Princeton, NJ, and a woman jumped in front of the train at the New Brunswick station, and got hit. Sad story, I wonder what got her to get to that point.
The train was commisioned out of service, and another train came to take us the rest of the way.

?? did you feel anything??

did she damage the train?

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
that sucks. its one thing to kill yourself, but if your going to make a trainload of people late well thats just mean.

The Japanese bullet train system is much more efficient and practical than the one the OP was riding on.

"Trains don't usually stop too long after a suicide, there's rarely much damage to carriages and we rarely have to send anyone off to catch trains on different lines. In that regard, train suicides probably don't cost too much," says an employee of a commuter line. "But to make sure we can cover the costs incurred when a suicide leads to a derailment, we have to ask the bereaved families of suicide victims to compensate us. The costs are usually in the range of 100 million yen ($USD 815,340), but I've heard of a case where a family was billed 140 million yen ($USD 1,141,555) after someone killed themselves by jumping in front of a train."

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Armitage
Wow - of all the ways to off yourself, I can't see jumping in front of a train being one I'd choose.

I think I'd go with jumping out of a plane with no parachute. That would be one hell of a ride.

till u kiss the ground.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Armitage
Wow - of all the ways to off yourself, I can't see jumping in front of a train being one I'd choose.

I think I'd go with jumping out of a plane with no parachute. That would be one hell of a ride.

till u kiss the ground.

That would be the "killing myself" part.
(I would never kill myself)

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: MustangSVT

Originally posted by: SLCentral
Was taking the train from NYC to Princeton, NJ, and a woman jumped in front of the train at the New Brunswick station, and got hit. Sad story, I wonder what got her to get to that point.
The train was commisioned out of service, and another train came to take us the rest of the way.

?? did you feel anything??

did she damage the train?

Nope, I didn't even notice we had stopped (I was taking a nap). When I woke up and heard an announcement that we were delayed for 30 minutes (which ended up being much longer) due to a fatality, I noticed something was wrong 😉.

When I got off the train, I looked @ the front of the train, and I didn't see anything "messy," but I assume the medics cleaned everything up before. There was a guy on the platform that said he saw everything, and that the medics had already came and left and cleaned it all up.