The media won't say this, and neither apparently will the police, so I will.
January 10, 2012 at 9:44 am
Sorry if this is insensitive, but I feel these things should be said.
Yet another person has been struck and killed by a train whilst trying to recover something they dropped onto the tracks. In this case, it was a mobile phone.
The police issued this statement:
"This appears to have been a tragic accident and our thoughts remain with the woman's family at this very difficult and sad time for them."
NO. Whilst this is certainly tragic, how on earth is it an accident? This young lady was presented with a choice; to risk her life by stupidly (yes, stupidly) going down onto train tracks to rescue a phone, or to go and contact someone official who could have handled the situation properly. She chose to take a stupid risk, and it cost her her life.
My deepest sympathies go out to anyone affected by this, don't get me wrong. It is a tragedy; it should have never happened, but the reason it should have never happened is that in the 21st century, people should know better than to make stupid decisions such as trying to rescue a relatively worthless (in comparison with the worth of human life that is) phone from a place where large metal objects hurtle along at speeds of up to 150 mph.
Why aren't more people talking about the inherent dangers of doing stupid things like this? Why doesn't the media grow some balls and point out the stupidity, as well as explaining the proper course of action one should take when they drop something onto the tracks? In fact, forget the media, why aren't the police doing this???
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Yet another person has been struck and killed by a train whilst trying to recover something they dropped onto the tracks. In this case, it was a mobile phone.
The police issued this statement:
"This appears to have been a tragic accident and our thoughts remain with the woman's family at this very difficult and sad time for them."
NO. Whilst this is certainly tragic, how on earth is it an accident? This young lady was presented with a choice; to risk her life by stupidly (yes, stupidly) going down onto train tracks to rescue a phone, or to go and contact someone official who could have handled the situation properly. She chose to take a stupid risk, and it cost her her life.
My deepest sympathies go out to anyone affected by this, don't get me wrong. It is a tragedy; it should have never happened, but the reason it should have never happened is that in the 21st century, people should know better than to make stupid decisions such as trying to rescue a relatively worthless (in comparison with the worth of human life that is) phone from a place where large metal objects hurtle along at speeds of up to 150 mph.
Why aren't more people talking about the inherent dangers of doing stupid things like this? Why doesn't the media grow some balls and point out the stupidity, as well as explaining the proper course of action one should take when they drop something onto the tracks? In fact, forget the media, why aren't the police doing this???
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