SJ_Skyline

It took me over 3 hours to get home last night because some inconsiderate twazack decided to top themselves on the west-coast main line near Tring.

So please, if you are planning to top yourself over the festive season - or indeed at any other time, please show a little consideration for us commuters and don't do on the railway. If you really need to do it on a line then please don't do it on the west-coast main line!

Thanks for being so understanding

davegtt

I can see an infraction coming on for that one

People who top themselves are pretty inconsiderate full stop.

cookstar

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Couldn't agree more, I had to deal with so many of these last year

Really spoils ones lunch

boxst

Always a useful guide:



Steve

fast bloke

I had to sit on a train outside Newry for 6 hours once as someone had decided it was appropriate to jump in front of an express train. There was stuff on the window, which looked suspiciously like liquified person.

cookstar

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It smells a bit by all acccounts

dpb

What like a bit singed around the edges you mean ?

Chip Sencurry

fast bloke

Dunno - I haven't any liquefied person experience to base a comparison, but there were red streak with lumps and bits of hair if that helps. The bits were on the outside and I was in the inside, so I couldn't smell it, but sitting on a train for 6 hours with loads of other peoples breath, armpit emissions and farts tends to stop you from sniffing too much.... or breathing in unnecessarily for that matter

EddScott

A neighour hanged himself in the shed 2 weeks ago. Only early 30s.

Left two kids behind. Two lads were banging on his door and we thought they were looking for a fight but they were work mates trying to find him. The found him in the shed. He'd been there for a few days.

Very sad just before christmas

cookstar

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I'm sure if it came to it, there are much better ways to go.

Mine would include LOTS of class A's

davegtt

Whats more sad is someone has been living a life bad enough to make them consider that option and most probably in silence with nobody to talk too

New_scooby_04

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Rotten sod!!

That said, you were stuck near Tring for 3 hours, and in some countries you get less than that for murder!


Seriously though, as SN's resident Psychologist I feel compelled to say that
as inconvenient as it may be when something like this happens, spare a thought:

You're annoyed/upset cause your jouney home is taking longer than usual.

Someone else thoight that their life was so bad, they never wanted to go home again!

I'd worry about humanity if, even in the run up to Xmas, we can't spare a charitable thought for those who just don't think they can face life anymore.

Ns04

pimmo2000

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I dont know anyone that hasnt thought about killing themselves...

on that note.. I'm advertising for new friends ...

Snazy

Depressing bunch of friends you have lol.

I can honestly say I have NEVER considered it. I have far too much respect for the life I have

Leslie

It is distressing to hear that life has got so bad that some poor bloke has had to end his own life. I think maybe he is worth a bit of consideration because his troubles have got on top of him and he has been pushed into the action you described above.

Sometimes it helps in times of irritation to count your own blessings and be thankful it was not you who has ended his own life.

Les

BOB.T

I'm all for suicide, I think it's great! If you're such a miserable ****** that you don't want to be here, p*ss off and leave the rest of us to it! Just do it in such a way as to not annoy us anymore than you already do!

Bob

spider

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My friend bought his first house cheaply because the last owner hanged himself in the garage - word got out and no-one wanted the place.

Said garage is now his home workshop; never felt anything "weird" in there despite the old bat next door constantly go on about "oooh - I dunno how you boys can bear work in there after what happened!"

We tolerate her doom & gloom though because she normally brings cake or flapjack with her!

cookstar

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Good post

spireite

Can remember a few years ago some bloke threatening to jump off the multi storey car park in chesterfield.Police were very upset with the onlookers shouting jump jump

Abdabz

I get more annoyed with the "cry for helpers" who stand on Runcorn bridge for hours and then get talked down, with a million miles of standing traffic stuck while they shut the bridge...
Believe me, when you've been sat in smelly Scumcorn in a traffic jam for 2 hours on your way home from work, you just want to get out and push the ****** off so you can get moving again!

cookstar

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The same mentality of people that cheer when an engine blows/someone crashes their car

EddScott

Funny you should mention this and I'm going to make my street sound like suicide alley but a girl who lives at the top of the street tried to use every drug in the house to kill herself.

Fortunately the Class A found on the streets in the UK these days is complete sh!te and she was found alive but fitting and foaming at the mouth. Few days and a couple of pumpings later she was out and is on medication to repair her stomach.

Oh, and to top it off, a lad in the same household as the above girl asked a mate to cut his foreskin off. :eeK: They decided to take him to hospital about an hour later when the bleeding wouldn't stop and he went "a bit pale"

Other than that, seasons greetings all round

Sonic'

I'm with you on that one, and if you don't push them I will

The Zohan

<nods>



aparently the train drivers get some 3 months off + counselling in situations like this.

SiPie

Yup....

Edinburgh's exactly the same with the Bridges (Main thoroughfare for me heading home from work) frequently being closed due to a potential jumper....

Quick push would get my vote

cookstar

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Yes and I agree with it totally, most of the drivers I know have had a suicide or a "near miss" which can be just as harrowing. I have to deal with these situations lots and let me tell you even speaking to these guys that are explaining how much bone/brain/hair is all over the windscreen is bad enough. Grown men crying is not a sound that I like

New_scooby_04

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I guess a sing song of "Let it snow' would be innappropriate in the context of class a drugs.

Good point about the driver. Poor sod; there's just bugger all he could have done apart from watch in horror- a high speed train's stopping distance is probably measured in miles! Horrible for the fire brigade too!

Ns04

cookstar

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Yes it is!

Scoobychick

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A friend of ours is an undertaker and says that he wishes that people who wish to commit suicide by train would lay across the tracks rather than jump or stand in front of the train. Apparently it's much easier to collect the body parts when they're laid across the tracks as opposed to spread along the track in small pieces for a few miles.