ronk wrote:Media only report about stuff they hear about. If there'd have been a journalist in the area delayed by the incident then it would have been national news, especially if there was half decent amateur footage.
Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:ronk wrote:Media only report about stuff they hear about. If there'd have been a journalist in the area delayed by the incident then it would have been national news, especially if there was half decent amateur footage.
Yeah, that's how it apparently works here as well. Coppers keep stuff to themselves unless journos find about it other ways. I actually hear about friend of a friend of a friend who worked for tabloid during her studies in university and her job was to go through hospitals and police stations during the weekend to find something to write about. Didn't sound too glamorous that.
Ted Hughes wrote:I was abducted by aliens. Not a word in the press.
Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:I do have a small amount of knowledge on that subject. Yes, people kill themselves in front of trains, about 400 a year on the entire network. One guy I work with has had three, and a I know a couple of who have been through it twice. But most drivers never have such an incident.
However, a suicide is different to a bloke being thrown off a bridge by rival supporters, through 25,000v cables and onto a railway line below. Some suicides get reported, most get a mention in the local rag for that area.
Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:I do have a small amount of knowledge on that subject. Yes, people kill themselves in front of trains, about 400 a year on the entire network. One guy I work with has had three, and a I know a couple of who have been through it twice. But most drivers never have such an incident.
However, a suicide is different to a bloke being thrown off a bridge by rival supporters, through 25,000v cables and onto a railway line below. Some suicides get reported, most get a mention in the local rag for that area.
Slim wrote:Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:I do have a small amount of knowledge on that subject. Yes, people kill themselves in front of trains, about 400 a year on the entire network. One guy I work with has had three, and a I know a couple of who have been through it twice. But most drivers never have such an incident.
However, a suicide is different to a bloke being thrown off a bridge by rival supporters, through 25,000v cables and onto a railway line below. Some suicides get reported, most get a mention in the local rag for that area.
I have no sympathy for those people.
Commit suicide with no regard for their family and friends AND to subject a complete stranger to have to live with the fact they killed them. Fucking awful thing it must be for your mates who have been through it.
#Slim wrote:Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:I do have a small amount of knowledge on that subject. Yes, people kill themselves in front of trains, about 400 a year on the entire network. One guy I work with has had three, and a I know a couple of who have been through it twice. But most drivers never have such an incident.
However, a suicide is different to a bloke being thrown off a bridge by rival supporters, through 25,000v cables and onto a railway line below. Some suicides get reported, most get a mention in the local rag for that area.
I have no sympathy for those people.
Commit suicide with no regard for their family and friends AND to subject a complete stranger to have to live with the fact they killed them. Fucking awful thing it must be for your mates who have been through it.
Robinho_Is_GOD wrote:Not sure why suicide is being dragged into this debate, this wasn't a suicide attempt, the lad was thrown onto the line, I would think it would be difficult to throw yourself over a bridge and onto a line.
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