damn, he did this about a mile from where I used to live out in Crystal Lake. Did it right by the street I lived on no less.

I can't see offing myself over $56k.

I like it, I like it. It's like burying a garbageman in the dump.

/the Chicago way

Irony - is a biatch.

huh.
How many Chicagoland public official suicides this year?

I love this town.

I feel bad for the engineer but.....who hasn't wanted to run over their boss with a train every now and them. This guy got to do it.

Forty-Two:
/Seriously, though, suicide by train is one of the most selfish ways to go.

THIS. Especially for someone who should know how much it traumatizes the engineers.

Andy Samberg and Seth Rogen disapprove. I thought everyone knew that you had to turn into a rocket and fly into the sun to die (like a boss!), not step in front of a train.

PJ_the_Barbarian: huh.

How many Chicagoland public official suicides this year?


Not nearly enough.

/I'm on the train to hell
// no pun intended

That should be jet, not rocket. Whoops.

I lolled

Now all we need is the story about the people shot on the Dan Ryan, and we'll have the Crazy shiate Happening in Chicago in One Day Trifecta!

/I'm not leaving the house

kazrak: Forty-Two:
/Seriously, though, suicide by train is one of the most selfish ways to go.

THIS. Especially for someone who should know how much it traumatizes the engineers.


Having been on three Metra trains that have had suicide hits, I am *not* getting a kick out of this story.

I mean, damn. He even had the guide to Metra procedures when someone suicides in front of a train in his pocket. So nice to know he was thinking of the folks that had to sift through his remains afterwards.

How many Chicago officials have supposedly off'ed themselves? I think they misunderstood the popularity of Harry Carey.

PJ_the_Barbarian: huh.
How many Chicagoland public official suicides this year?

I love this town.

Two that I can think of. This guy and the guy who shot himself by the River. Any more?

Nightsweat: PJ_the_Barbarian: huh.
How many Chicagoland public official suicides this year?

I love this town.

Two that I can think of. This guy and the guy who shot himself by the River. Any more?

two in just over four months means we're on track for 5 by christmas!

bugmn99: I can't see offing myself over $56k.

No kidding. Weak constitution and we're better off without him. Self-centered jerk ruined everyone's day.

esblondie2: Now all we need is the story about the people shot on the Dan Ryan, and we'll have the Crazy shiate Happening in Chicago in One Day Trifecta!

/I'm not leaving the house

I can come over and keep you company

Nightsweat: Any more?

And one who OD'ed.

esblondie2: Now all we need is the story about the people shot on the Dan Ryan, and we'll have the Crazy shiate Happening in Chicago in One Day Trifecta!

/I'm not leaving the house

How about the murder/suicide in the Old Navy down in the loop this morning? I think the cops are still down there....

netringer: He showed em!

I'm innocent, I tells ya!

(click on pic pops)

Just ask Bud Dwyer!

I just googled a video of that. Um, that was interesting.

He should've taken the bus!

Forty-Two: Another source told the Chicago Tribune that Pagano's wallet was found on his body, "along with a copy of Metra's procedures on how to handle a service disruption after a suicide."

Well, isn't that... thoughtful.

/Seriously, though, suicide by train is one of the most selfish ways to go.

Meanwhile, slitting your wrists with a broken clam is one of the most shellfish ways to go.

RuckBreaksScissors: Forty-Two: Another source told the Chicago Tribune that Pagano's wallet was found on his body, "along with a copy of Metra's procedures on how to handle a service disruption after a suicide."

Well, isn't that... thoughtful.

/Seriously, though, suicide by train is one of the most selfish ways to go.

Meanwhile, slitting your wrists with a broken clam is one of the most shellfish ways to go.

choking on a pound of 41/50 shrimp is much more shellfish

Stealing money from an orphanage to buy lobster and eat enough for your stomach to burst?

Now, if all politicians would do this, life, could be relatively pleasant.

this plus the Old Navy murder suicide on State Street will make for an interesting newscast tonight in Chicago

AmericanGrizzly: I just googled a video of that. Um, that was interesting.

at least it inspired a good song.

FTFA:Pagano was 60 years old. His death on Friday, tragic in its own right, would also mark a disturbing trend if it were a suicide -- in the last eight months, two other Chicago political figures under investigation for corruption have also killed themselves.[emphasis added]

Disturbing? Seriously? Now if only Todd Stroger, Richie Daley, and Roland Burris would do this next we'd be doin' OK here.

hoyt clagwell: FTFA:Pagano was 60 years old. His death on Friday, tragic in its own right, would also mark a disturbing trend if it were a suicide -- in the last eight months, two other Chicago political figures under investigation for corruption have also killed themselves.[emphasis added]

Disturbing? Seriously? Now if only Todd Stroger, Richie Daley, and Roland Burris would do this next we'd be doin' OK here.

in all fairness, it would probably be a rough transition. City's so used to running this way, cleaning it up would pose problems.

hoyt clagwell: FTFA:Pagano was 60 years old. His death on Friday, tragic in its own right, would also mark a disturbing trend if it were a suicide -- in the last eight months, two other Chicago political figures under investigation for corruption have also killed themselves.[emphasis added]

Disturbing? Seriously? Now if only Todd Stroger, Richie Daley, and Roland Burris would do this next we'd be doin' OK here.


Man, half of Chicago would wear *white* to that funeral.

I wondered what happened when I got this Metra service alert this morning:

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What the hell is going on in this city today?

/about ready to get on the 'el' and go home.
//will hopefully survive the experience.

I can understand the act if it were that serious.

BUT COME ON. $56k? That's bad, but not "I have to kill myself to avoid paying 6 months of my salary" bad.

bugmn99: I can't see offing myself over $56k.

Yeah, you should definitely off yourself over broadband, so your suicide loads faster.

"Disturbing? Seriously? Now if only Todd Stroger, Richie Daley, and Roland Burris would do this next we'd be doin' OK here."

Don't forget to add Mikey Madigan to that list.

There was an article in one of the Chicago daily papers a few years back about 'suicide by train'.

The article said the average train engineer [non CTA] working in the Chicago area for 20 years will have to live through one of these.

I think they excluded CTA because there are too many slow zones on the CTA due to poor maintenance, for CTA to be an effective alternative for the would be 'suicidal'.

Metra ought to re-write the manual on how to deal with a 'suicide by train'. Halting every train on that track for hours is idiotic.

1st responders should take pics & video, bag and tag the only person involved who got what they came for, and a replacement engineer takes over within one hour. The local fire truck already on scene hoses off the front of the train, and thousands of other peoples lives are not delayed further.

PJ_the_Barbarian: huh.
How many Chicagoland public official suicides this year?

I love this town.

Three. There was the one next to the river, and one of Blagojevich's men who killed himself just before his prison term was about to start. RTFA. Now the Metra boss.

He died as he lived.

This doesn't change anything.
/Metra service still sucks ass.
//Even worse when at rush hour they cut down on the number of trains and people end up sitting on top of each and standing in the aisles..

nhoj1962: Metra ought to re-write the manual on how to deal with a 'suicide by train'. Halting every train on that track for hours is idiotic.

I dimly remember some Intel manager committing "suicide by light rail" (MAX train) when I first moved to Portland, OR back in 2000. I'm pretty sure the trains were back running in under 2 hours....

/ had to take a shuttle bus on my commute that day...

Damnit, where's a conspiracy theorist to link this to Obama when you need one?

I would expect some enterprising soul to have already set up a frequently-updated "Obama Body Count" page complete with t-shirts to buy through Cafe Press.

Internet, you disappoint me.

RIP booze cars