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		People are no longer waiting to get pushed in front of a subway in NYC, they're now laying on the tracks to sacrifice themselves to the subway gods (nydailynews.com)		98
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Ennuipoet		2013-01-01 07:14:37 PM

What the Subway Gods may look like.

ginandbacon		2013-01-01 07:44:31 PM

I feel awful for the conductors in these situations. Can you imagine what that must be like?

Apos		2013-01-01 08:12:10 PM

The woman apparently lied down on the tracks

*rapid left eye twitch*

What did she lie about?

fusillade762		2013-01-01 08:33:42 PM

Woman struck by 2 train

One wasn't enough?

AbbeySomeone		2013-01-01 08:45:30 PM

Apos: The woman apparently lied down on the tracks

*rapid left eye twitch*

What did she lie about?

She lied "down on the tracks" dude. Get with it. Read between the lines.

simplicimus		2013-01-01 08:53:15 PM

Me, I'm going out on the 7 line, probably at Grand Central.

AlwaysRightBoy		2013-01-01 09:00:59 PM

ginandbacon: I feel awful for the conductors in these situations. Can you imagine what that must be like?

On my NJ Transit line this happens all the time. Really slows down the commute for us and usally scars most engineers for life.

/have talked to one or two of them and it really does screw them up in the head when you see it and can't stop in time

ginandbacon		2013-01-01 09:13:09 PM

AlwaysRightBoy: ginandbacon: I feel awful for the conductors in these situations. Can you imagine what that must be like?

On my NJ Transit line this happens all the time. Really slows down the commute for us and usally scars most engineers for life.

/have talked to one or two of them and it really does screw them up in the head when you see it and can't stop in time

It happens a lot in the DC Metro area and I think it's usually the end of their career. I don't think think I could go back to work after something like this.

Because People in power are Stupid		2013-01-01 09:23:59 PM

Dallymo		2013-01-01 09:50:03 PM

AbbeySomeone: Apos: The woman apparently lied down on the tracks

*rapid left eye twitch*

What did she lie about?

She lied "down on the tracks" dude. Get with it. Read between the lines.

And according to the headline, that was "after climbing onto tracks and laying down on rails."

They are bound and determined to use every variant of lie/lay they can get their grubby hands on.

skinink		2013-01-01 10:33:34 PM

Can't wait for NFL Sunday when Bob Costas talks about banning trains.

SpikeStrip		2013-01-01 10:33:45 PM

subway...eat flesh!

Ryker's Peninsula		2013-01-01 10:35:47 PM

Jared?
RG3?
Michael Phelps?

To whom do I pray?!

Shadow Blasko		2013-01-01 10:36:21 PM

So, in a New York Minute they might find her clothes scattered somewhere down the tracks. and she wont be down on Wall street anymore?

Anne.Uumellmahaye		2013-01-01 10:37:16 PM

Maybe the plants really are releasing spores that make us self destruct.

Greywar		2013-01-01 10:37:28 PM

Hey if they offered a 50K bonus for everyone you took out with your train the "scarred for life" would quickly end., and the "So I waited just a second more to hit the brakes...and BAM 50K! She almost made it though...." would start. Call it a "trauma fund" to "assist conductors in dealing with trauma".

89 Stick-Up Kid		2013-01-01 10:40:26 PM

If you lie down with subway trains you get up with mangled flesh.

trappedspirit		2013-01-01 10:40:28 PM

NERF EVERYTHING!!

CaptainFatass		2013-01-01 10:44:23 PM

The Aristocrats?

The Jami Turman Fan Club		2013-01-01 10:44:37 PM

Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo		2013-01-01 10:45:24 PM

Pffff...if the subway gods want you, they send the rats

moothemagiccow		2013-01-01 10:46:21 PM

Buy a gun, go home and shoot yourself. You'll inconvenience a few cops and the coroner, but it's the best we can do until suicide booths are made available.

Bathia_Mapes		2013-01-01 10:47:13 PM

ginandbacon: I feel awful for the conductors in these situations. Can you imagine what that must be like?

Indeed.

Locally a guy committed suicide via train a couple of weeks ago. He laid down on the tracks and put his head in a position that guaranteed that the train would run over it. It wasn't just the conductor that had to deal with the aftermath, but there were two people that tried to get him off the tracks without success.

moothemagiccow		2013-01-01 10:48:02 PM

bearded clamorer		2013-01-01 10:48:25 PM

Well I tied my baby to the railroad track
Cannonball down the line
Giving that woman just a one more chance
To give it to me one more time
Engineer wishing he was home in bed
Dreaming about Casey Jones
Wide-eyed woman half a mile ahead
Thinking about broken bones

_{/Their finest album}

Lady Beryl Ersatz-Wendigo		2013-01-01 10:49:24 PM

If we made a blood sacrifice to the Red Line in DC do you suppose it would run any better?

you are a puppet		2013-01-01 10:49:57 PM

The post in the comments from the alleged cousin of the girl is enlightening. Apparently this happened because blacks think they deserve handouts, and therefore did not help the victim. (Have they learned nothing from 9/11)

buckler		2013-01-01 10:50:40 PM

Yeah, the snark is part of what FARK is for, and that's cool, but suffering from major clinical depression myself (medicated), I just wish she'd gotten the help she needed. Damned shame.

tetsoushima		2013-01-01 10:51:05 PM

All part of the plan.

LemSkroob		2013-01-01 10:52:42 PM

this only makes the news now because of the recent murder. Sad fact is, this happens nearly weekly on the NYC subway, but its not often covered.

0Icky0		2013-01-01 10:53:19 PM

Is it so difficult to install a barrier between the platform and the trains?
They have those in civilized countries.
C'mon America. Catch up.

Hector Remarkable		2013-01-01 10:54:29 PM

I believe in the Subway Gods.

lenfromak		2013-01-01 10:55:39 PM

moothemagiccow: AbbeySomeone: Apos: The woman apparently lied down on the tracks

*rapid left eye twitch*

What did she lie about?

She lied "down on the tracks" dude. Get with it. Read between the lines.

~~She laid down on the tracks.~~

She lay down on the tracks.

you are a puppet		2013-01-01 10:57:01 PM

lenfromak: moothemagiccow: AbbeySomeone: Apos: The woman apparently lied down on the tracks

*rapid left eye twitch*

What did she lie about?

She lied "down on the tracks" dude. Get with it. Read between the lines.

She laid down on the tracks.

She lay down on the tracks.

Lay lady lay, lay across my big steel rails. Stay lady stay, stay motionless a while.

89 Stick-Up Kid		2013-01-01 10:57:39 PM

LemSkroob: this only makes the news now because of the recent murder. Sad fact is, this happens nearly weekly on the NYC subway, but its not often covered.

My neighbor married a transit worker from Brooklyn who had hundreds of stories about seeing 'crispy critters' being scraped of by the 'pooper scooper'. Most of the time they were prostitutes who were strangled and tossed onto the third rail.

buckler		2013-01-01 10:57:42 PM

0Icky0: Is it so difficult to install a barrier between the platform and the trains?
They have those in civilized countries.
C'mon America. Catch up.

Self-inflicted. She'd just have bypassed the barrier to do the same thing. Those on a true mission to end their lives will find a way.

machoprogrammer		2013-01-01 10:59:22 PM

0Icky0: Is it so difficult to install a barrier between the platform and the trains?
They have those in civilized countries.
C'mon America. Catch up.

If someone is going to kill themselves, they would just find another way of doing it. Unfortunately. The main problem is that this country has a ways to go to help those that need help with mental issues.

Fark Rye For Many Whores		2013-01-01 11:01:30 PM

vudukungfu		2013-01-01 11:03:04 PM

Bathia_Mapes: It wasn't just the conductor that had to deal with the aftermath, but there were two people that tried to get him off the tracks without success.

No one ever thinks of the third shift dude with the bukkit anna mop.

Sock Ruh Tease		2013-01-01 11:10:26 PM

Get a train, morans. Go MTA

Fart_Machine		2013-01-01 11:10:44 PM

NightOwl2255		2013-01-01 11:11:41 PM

you are a puppet: Lay lady lay, lay across my big steel rails. Stay lady stay, stay motionless a while.

You, sir, are one magnificent bastard!

freewill		2013-01-01 11:13:03 PM

89 Stick-Up Kid: My neighbor married a transit worker from Brooklyn who had hundreds of stories about seeing 'crispy critters' being scraped of by the 'pooper scooper'. Most of the time they were prostitutes who were strangled and tossed onto the third rail.

...

*fap*?

Sum Guye		2013-01-01 11:21:55 PM

0Icky0		2013-01-01 11:25:52 PM

machoprogrammer: If someone is going to kill themselves, they would just find another way of doing it. Unfortunately. The main problem is that this country has a ways to go to help those that need help with mental issues.

Yes, but a barrier will stop the pushers.

And bypassing the barrier? Not if it's high enough as all of ours are.

Mutt Farkinov		2013-01-01 11:28:48 PM

moothemagiccow: Buy a gun, go home and shoot yourself. You'll inconvenience a few cops and the coroner, but it's the best we can do until suicide booths are made available.

It's NY. She'd had a better chance of drowning in a 32oz soft drink.

/now, if you had said steal a gun...

Mutt Farkinov		2013-01-01 11:33:21 PM

Pictures in the article sucked, btw.

Gyrfalcon		2013-01-01 11:37:09 PM

Greywar: Hey if they offered a 50K bonus for everyone you took out with your train the "scarred for life" would quickly end., and the "So I waited just a second more to hit the brakes...and BAM 50K! She almost made it though...." would start. Call it a "trauma fund" to "assist conductors in dealing with trauma".

I'm f*cking scarred for life after reading that story. If that's what passes for journalism now, there's going to be a mass shooting at the nearest newspaper office. Then someone can report that they all dyed.

89 Stick-Up Kid		2013-01-01 11:39:02 PM

freewill: 89 Stick-Up Kid: My neighbor married a transit worker from Brooklyn who had hundreds of stories about seeing 'crispy critters' being scraped of by the 'pooper scooper'. Most of the time they were prostitutes who were strangled and tossed onto the third rail.

...

*fap*?

Ok, now that shiat is funny! Well played.