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LunaK
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"A man was killed Monday night after being struck by a Metro train at McPherson Square in downtown D.C. in an apparent suicide, according to the transit agency.

The death occurred at about 8:35 p.m., when the man was hit by a Blue Line train headed westbound into the station, said Metro spokeswoman Angela Gates. Witnesses told Metro police that he placed himself intentionally in the tracks, she said.

Metro shut down service at that station on both the Blue and Orange lines and called in shuttle buses for passengers.

The death brings the transit agency's death toll to 22 this year, after a spate of other rail suicides, a massive train crash that killed nine, the accidental deaths of two track workers, the electrocution of a contractor, a deadly slip by a passenger and a bus accident that killed a woman.

Metro said in September that it planned to work with a network of regional suicide prevention groups to fight the problem of people using the train system to end their lives after a 15-year-old killed himself at the Columbia Heights station. "




http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Man-killed-by-Metro-train-in-D_C_-8544052-70246317.html

11/16/2009 10:09:55 PM

JCASHFAN
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you really are the bringer of death to chit chat

11/16/2009 10:16:04 PM

terpball
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That is the closest stop to the white house i think, a few blocks from my apt complex. I haven't heard of this though.

People jump in front of those trains way too often, but usually don't die.

11/16/2009 10:18:47 PM

LunaK
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yea mcpherson is the closest

it hasn't been picked up everywhere yet

11/16/2009 10:19:40 PM

jataylor
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if you are going to kill yourself, do it in a way as to not inconvenience others

11/16/2009 10:20:25 PM

Beowulf
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/AR2009111402459_pf.html

soon as i read the thread title it sent a chill down my spine cause i had just read this the other day

11/16/2009 10:22:17 PM

terpball
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Congress already failed to pass $$ for DC metro last year, before the red line accident. I forgot which congressman was so vocal about his state not wanting to pay for DC's transit.

11/16/2009 10:26:15 PM

LunaK
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it was one of the same ones that was all pissy about the teabaggers not having good enough of a transit system when they came down to protest

11/16/2009 10:28:42 PM

Mr Grace
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i have never contemplated suicide, but if i did, i feel as though i would put enough thought into it as to where i didnt have the potential to get dragged under a train for a long time before i died.

there seem to be so many fun ways of doing it.

in fact, i think this is thread worthy.

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM. Reason : .]

11/16/2009 10:31:24 PM

Vulcan91
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Last year when I was there some guy killed himself by jumping in front of a train at McPherson Square.

If you're going to off yourself how bout doing it in a way that doesn't inconvenience thousands of people by shutting down a metro station for hours.

BTW somebody post the videos of the drunk lady falling in front of the metro train and the baby in the stroller getting dragged in Australia.

11/16/2009 10:37:06 PM

Golovko
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"Metro said in September that it planned to work with a network of regional suicide prevention groups to fight the problem of people using the train system to end their lives after a 15-year-old killed himself at the Columbia Heights station."


Quote :
"if you are going to kill yourself, do it in a way as to not inconvenience others"


I think thats basically what they're saying here in between the lines

11/16/2009 10:39:50 PM

jataylor
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i hope these work, dont know if jj.am allows hotlinking anymore







11/16/2009 10:50:01 PM

Rat Soup
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^ fuck you dude

11/16/2009 10:57:29 PM

jataylor
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someone got a weak stomach?

[Edited on November 16, 2009 at 11:04 PM. Reason : this is chit chat, grow a pair or GTFO]

11/16/2009 11:03:29 PM

Yao Ming
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11/16/2009 11:04:34 PM

JCASHFAN
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11/17/2009 7:10:31 AM

Nitrocloud
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What's with all the bystanders running away?

11/17/2009 9:49:42 AM

terpball
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If that was a mob hit, you don't wanna be a witness

11/17/2009 9:55:29 AM

Nitrocloud
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You're saying they're actually afraid of being witnesses in an age of video cameras?

11/17/2009 10:05:30 AM

terpball
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YES THAT IS WHAT THE FUCK I'M SAYING.

11/17/2009 10:10:55 AM

Nitrocloud
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Well, what about the suicides?

11/17/2009 10:11:48 AM

wwwebsurfer
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haha, don't care if you kill yoself, just don't damage the trains in the process. We're trying to get to work.

That's what I read in the last 2-3 lines of that.

11/17/2009 10:46:53 AM

jataylor
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"What's with all the bystanders running away?"


They were probably trying to catch him. Since they couldnt cross the tracks to get him, and the only place he could go was up the stairs, they were probably chasing him.

11/17/2009 3:02:01 PM

DeltaBeta
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Don't ask terpball questions, he'll turn into Angry Black Man at the drop of a hat.

11/17/2009 3:04:26 PM

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