Author Topic: Here's one for you cops (Read 821 times)

Questor · « **on:** March 15, 2006, 09:53:00 AM »

I just read in the news that the deaf beauty queen that was hit by a train was text messaging when she was hit and killed by a train. I beg your pardon! It's a little difficult to not notice a train coming when you're walking along a railroad track. You can feel it in the ground and there's no mistaking it. Deaf people especially would be sensitive to this. Have them check for foul play or intoxication.

Shorty · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2006, 01:42:45 PM »

Questor,
I have a deaf daughter and she and my wife text-message all the time. When they are doing that they are oblivious to everything else! :roll:
So, it could be the case. :wink:

victorcharlie · « **Reply #2 on:** March 16, 2006, 04:20:14 AM »

She was sure a pretty girl that had a lot of thing working for her despite of her handicap. What was she doing on the track in the first place?

Questor · « **Reply #3 on:** March 16, 2006, 04:45:52 AM »

Thanks for the info. It strikes me as strange. I've done a fair amount of rabbit hunting along railroad tracks and it's very hard for me to believe that an oncoming train could be unnoticed by anyone. You can feel it long before you hear it, and the vibrations are strong. First rule of walking railroad tracks: look over your shoulder every few minutes.

EVOC ONE · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2006, 05:38:21 AM »

When I was still on the job as a L.E. officer I responded to a pedestrian/train fatality that would baffle anyone.

A apparently normal lady in her 30's stepped off the platform into the front of a commuter train while 100 or more people watched.

There was no reason to believe that it was anything other than an accident. To access the boarding platform from the parking lot, some commuters choose to cross the tracks. Others walk through a tunnel.

This particular lady approached and as others watched just stepped in front of the train while crossing.

Not only was it very sad that she passed away, but she and her husband had just move to town from out west. She accepted a promotion in her employ and he gave up his job as a L.E. officer to move with her.

They had not yet finished unpacking. The detectives said it was one of the hardest notifications to do because they could offer no reasonable explanation for why the accident occurred.

On average, we handled 2-4 pedestrian/train fatalities each year. Most of the victims were long time residents of the area. Some of the fatalities were due to intoxication and others trying to race the train. But some are still unexplained. I do beileve that a person can easily not hear or feel a train approaching. Especially, if they are not paying attention. Be they hearing impaired or not.

Regards,

EVOC ONE

Plink · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2006, 01:20:22 PM »

I guess I just don't get it. To me, the fact that there are railroad tracks should be at least the slightest of clues that trains might run in the general vicinity.

We have people killed locally on the tracks all the time. I've never not heard the horn or felt the ground shake. And the tracks are the last place I'd pick to walk along to start with.

I can understand the deaf girl not hearing the horn. Knowing that she's deaf and can't hear the horn, and that trains do indeed run on tracks, why was she walking on them in the first place?

Greysky · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2006, 06:37:40 AM »

A former co-worker I used to pal around with was killed by a freight train as he walked home from work in the middle of the tracks. A very disturbed witness to this gruesome incident informed authorities that the man appeared to be oblivious of the approaching train. And this man was not deaf.

I don't suppose anyone will ever know exactly why this particular man died the way he did. But I strongly suspect he really didn't care about surviving from day-to-day any longer in this competitive, uncaring world that forces many sensitive individuals to make drastic decisions.

I regret that I was not there for this lonely man when he needed someone to lean on. And I will until the time I stop breathing air in this icy world.

Has anyone considered the possibility this young woman simply wanted her personal torment to end. And the train was the implement she chose to end her misery.

I'm telling you, folks, it might be time to stop, look, and listen to your loved ones, and co-workers more closely. Sometimes a desperate cry for help is silent.

The world might be cold, but we don't have to be.