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Another person jumped in front of a train this morning.
My wife gets to Bethpage station at 630am, waits around nearly an hour in the cold with no announcement, then decides to try Hicksville - too late... absolutely zero parking left including the paid lot. She comes home and I have to rush the kids to eat and get dressed so we can go drop her off at Hicksville instead, and then the kids off. 2 hours later she's on the train.
Another person jumped in front of a train this morning.
My wife gets to Bethpage station at 630am, waits around nearly an hour in the cold with no announcement, then decides to try Hicksville - too late... absolutely zero parking left including the paid lot. She comes home and I have to rush the kids to eat and get dressed so we can go drop her off at Hicksville instead, and then the kids off. 2 hours later she's on the train.
Couldn't they have done it after peak hours?
Yes I'm kidding. Maybe.
That reminds me of a story from Seattle I read a few years ago - somebody was going to jump off a bridge and it caused a traffic jam, people stuck in traffic were yelling for her to jump.
Better they jumped on the way to work as opposed at day's end when people want to come home. That's the worst.
No, not kidding.
I think you have that backwards. Very frustrating when you have things to do at work, and can't get there because of some miserable, inconsiderate moron. At least it's something they can only do once.
Another person jumped in front of a train this morning.
My wife gets to Bethpage station at 630am, waits around nearly an hour in the cold with no announcement, then decides to try Hicksville - too late... absolutely zero parking left including the paid lot. She comes home and I have to rush the kids to eat and get dressed so we can go drop her off at Hicksville instead, and then the kids off. 2 hours later she's on the train.
Couldn't they have done it after peak hours?
Yes I'm kidding. Maybe.
This past Friday night. 2 jumpers. one at woodside and one at baldwin.
Service on the babylon line suspended.
I ended up in a bar across from Penn for a burger & a beer(s)
That reminds me of a story from Seattle I read a few years ago - somebody was going to jump off a bridge and it caused a traffic jam, people stuck in traffic were yelling for her to jump.
We were driving with the kids on the Northway a number of years ago and saw a person standing on an overpass, looking down. Didn't think anything of it. Turns out she jumped after the car behind us cleared the overpass.
I thank God to this day that she jumped after we passed by. No 15 & 8 year old should witness a suicide.
My heart goes out to the woman that day, and to the person who killed themselves this morning. I can't think of anything worth killing one's self over.
Yes having your train delayed is a huge pain (I've been there) but how about the impact this has on the train engineer who basically has a front row seat for the whole thing? I have a family member who's a retired train engineer who once told me something along the lines of "I can remember their faces".
We were driving with the kids on the Northway a number of years ago and saw a person standing on an overpass, looking down. Didn't think anything of it. Turns out she jumped after the car behind us cleared the overpass.
I thank God to this day that she jumped after we passed by. No 15 & 8 year old should witness a suicide.
My heart goes out to the woman that day, and to the person who killed themselves this morning. I can't think of anything worth killing one's self over.
When you are in intense painful agony. You don't want to die, but you are desperate for the pain and suffering to stop, whether mentally, physically, or both. Generally, emotional pain induces genuine physical pain. This is why we should think before we speak or write because sometimes, a tiny little cut, even if it appears to seem harmless or miniscule or trivial, into a deep pre-existing wound, is enough to drive a person to the edge.
I cannot imagine the desperation that these unfortunate people are going through or what the impact that their actions do to their family or the person that they used as the conduit to their demise (railroad engineer).
There is so much truth to the expression "There but for the grace of God, go I.
Yes, I was on board the 6:05 out of Penn Friday night and detained for an hour or more due to the fatality, and I will forget the event quickly, I only wish the family or the conduit (as above) has the same luxury.
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