Raleigh PD/FD/EMS working on a fatal train vs pedestrian accident off Carolina Pines Ave.

Sounds like one where recovery is not gonna be fun

12/13/2010 10:24:45 PM

somebody grab a shovel and a bucket and go help out

12/13/2010 10:25:28 PM

Were they playing that "Hey Soul Sister" song when they squished him?

12/13/2010 10:25:57 PM

No they were playing Hey Troll Sister

12/13/2010 10:27:32 PM

I've never understood how you get hit by a train, unless its on purpose. Its not like they sneak up on you.

12/13/2010 10:31:47 PM

alcohol or train hopping i'd presume

12/13/2010 10:33:56 PM

I heard he got hogtied by a posse

12/13/2010 10:35:24 PM

12/13/2010 11:02:14 PM

This many posts to say "suicide"?

SUICIDE

12/13/2010 11:05:04 PM

12/13/2010 11:59:02 PM

It was a female lying on the tracks

and WTF

Who the hell lies down on train tracks, I can understand crossing or walking beside them but damn.

12/14/2010 8:51:01 AM

have you BEEN to that area?

12/14/2010 9:02:58 AM

Link to the article?

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:18 AM. Reason : Guess I'll fuckin' do it: http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/8773096/]

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:19 AM. Reason : Oh shit. This is another one who stepped in front of a train. ]

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM. Reason : Double train pwnage: http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/8773467/]

12/14/2010 9:10:25 AM

Quote :

"Dammit, I didn't get hit by no train! I AM THE PATER FAMILIAS!"

12/14/2010 9:31:54 AM

Quote :

"Who the hell lies down on train tracks"

Someone committing suicide by train, durr.

12/14/2010 9:35:39 AM

I'll tell you a riddle...

You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where the train will take you?

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 9:40 AM. Reason : .]

12/14/2010 9:40:16 AM

im surprised no one did a CSI ending with "Dead in his tracks" or something

12/14/2010 9:49:55 AM

when i was in EMS i had to go to a incident like this but it wasnt a suicide
it was 2 homeless guys laying on the tracks to keep warm in the rocks

was one of the worst accidents i have ever seen on the gross level

12/14/2010 9:55:58 AM

12/14/2010 10:45:15 AM

One of my friends freshman year was on a train that hit somebody. The people on the train felt something, then the train stopped. The staff's excuse for why they had stopped was they "got a speeding ticket."

12/14/2010 10:50:53 AM

Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
Was just a freight train coming your way

12/14/2010 10:53:27 AM

^^ bet they thought they were real funny

12/14/2010 11:06:55 AM

I will round up 3 friends and go look at the body

12/14/2010 11:08:08 AM

I can understand them not wanting to say "hey we just killed someone" but I thought it was sad that they thought people would actually be that dumb.

Though many probably were.

12/14/2010 11:09:54 AM

RPD released surveillance footage of the incident

12/14/2010 11:17:37 AM

Quote :

"The staff's excuse for why they had stopped was they "got a speeding ticket.""

I'd probably chuckle at that.

Hell in Japan they just straight up tell you your train is delayed because someone committed suicide. I always hated when that message was announced when waiting for my train.

12/14/2010 11:47:55 AM

god bless those little slant-eyed bastards.

12/14/2010 11:52:33 AM

I like how JR fines your family for every minute the train is delayed that you jumped in front of. I guess if you really hate your family that's a great way to screw them over.

12/14/2010 11:54:07 AM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/15/862809/her-brief-freedom-ends-in-death.html

12/15/2010 12:46:11 PM

My grandmother worked at the VA Hospital in Salisbury during the Vietnam War. She said several times some of the vets would sneak out and go lay their heads across the rails n' wait for a train to come

12/15/2010 1:01:55 PM

^^ That's so sad

12/15/2010 1:14:14 PM

This was our truck driver's brother in law's sister. He was just my office talking with me about it.

12/15/2010 2:33:14 PM

^^^It works better if you let the engine go by and then thrust your head ahead of one of the cars wheels. That way you avoid any sort of cow catcher and the engineer doesn't have time to slow down.

12/15/2010 3:10:14 PM