Somebody jumped in front of my train today

jwbassman · #2 10-06-2008, 09:21 AM

Wow, that stinks. I'm guessing that they died?

MakiSupaStar · #3 10-06-2008, 09:21 AM

Go home and hug a loved one.

Muusers · #4 10-06-2008, 09:24 AM

Yeah, I saw the police carry the body away under a white cloth.

FreaqyFrequency · #5 10-06-2008, 09:26 AM

Aw man...

Mark Latimour · #6 10-06-2008, 09:28 AM

When I was in Morocco a few weeks ago I saw (the immediate result of) three people killed in three days. Two in vehicle accidents and one hit by a train that I was in. Its not your fault and there was nothing you could do about it.

Muusers · #7 10-06-2008, 09:31 AM

Yeah i know, but it still sucks and it still messes up your brain...

jwbassman · #8 10-06-2008, 09:47 AM

Were you driving the train? Or were you a commuter on the train? Really sorry to hear about that.

Muusers · #9 10-06-2008, 09:48 AM

Commuter, i was on my way to uni

GregC · #10 10-06-2008, 09:52 AM

I'm really sorry to hear that. I've never experienced it myself, but a coworker recently arrived at her train station just a few minutes after a young lady had tried to cross the tracks on foot at the wrong time (she ignored warning lights and a gate). It was a terrible scene.

machine gewehr · #11 10-06-2008, 10:20 AM

Sorry you had to witness that man.

Try not to think about it and keep yourself busy for a while.

Visirale · #12 10-06-2008, 10:33 AM

That happened when I was visiting Holland. We were stuck there for a good 3 or 4 hours. A little creepy for me then since I was only 11 or so...

Demian · #13 10-06-2008, 10:48 AM

Oh man, that really sucks.

I've never experienced something like that myself, but a friend of mine witnessed a guy that was according to him estimately between 25 and 30 years old jumping right in front of a freight train that was passing by the platform on which he waited for his train to get home from university. So he saw all those ugly things that happened with that poor guy.
He had to get it over with somehow. I think he just did a lot of stuff the next days in order to be busy and not coming to think of it, just like machine gewehr recommended it, too.
And Mark Latimour is certainly right. It's hard for you, I understand that, but you're not to blame. You were just unlucky, wrong time, wrong place I'd say. Just get something to do, maybe talk to someone about it and then try not to worry anymore. Neither does it help anyone nor can it change anything about it.

MatticusMania · #14 10-06-2008, 01:16 PM

Oh man, thats the kind of thing that stays with you too. I remember I was about 11 or 12 and I was driving home with my mom. The freeway interchange we had to take to get home was closed so we had to detour. As we crossed over the freeway I saw a white sheet with a body laying on the lane we would have went to go home. I saw the guys hand hanging out from under the sheet and it really spooked me. I guess the guy had jumped for some reason. I remember that more clearly than most moments in my life.

crimson_basser · #15 10-06-2008, 01:22 PM

in the spring i was test driving my parents new car (i was sharing it with my mom)
and i was driving through this one highway the is dug about a good 50 feet or so below the boulevards running on to on either side of the highway.

so im driving along with my friends and all of a sudden theres this blockade of cars ahead right in front of one of the overpasses.

so were all slowing down and we realize that its a wall of cars shielding off this body thats face down on the floor. and immediately we all realize that the woman had either jumped or somehow fallen over the edge...

it was pretty gruesome and had us all on edge for a few days...

thumpbass1 · #16 10-06-2008, 01:41 PM

I'm so sorry. I have an uncle that is a retired Union Pacific engineer and he had suffered a few bad incidents that were not his fault, including a suicide, over the course of his long career. I hope you get good support from your family and friends. Does your employer offer any professional counseling as well? What you went through is awful. I'll be saying some prayers for you.

varunkapahi · #17 10-06-2008, 02:03 PM

some body jumped in front of my train a few months back too. the driver was alert and he was able to stop, but not exactly. the person who jumped got hurt badly and we were all stuck for like about 45 minutes. bad sight.... wont describe

Brummie · #18 10-06-2008, 05:23 PM

I've worked for London Underground for nearly 25 years and had do deal with this on a few occasions, the first when I'd only been working for them for about 8 weeks & had to find out where the bulk of the remains were under the train so it could be uncoupled for the medics & Police to collect as much as they could - I was terrified & only 18 at the time. It was in at the deep end for what was going to happen a few more times. I work for Track maintainnance now and don't have to deal with any of that - thank God.
cheers

alfredpunkjazz · #19 10-06-2008, 06:17 PM

I had seen that... But I saw this guys jumping, I was not on the train... It was bloddy awful.

I still have some caps of the moment in my dreams.