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Still lots of work to do on educating people who are not suicidal, but just plain stupid. A driver at a previous depot once had a very close call, running through a minor station & following level crossing at approx 85mph, a guy wearing headphones leapt the barriers and casually strolled across the line. Clearly his volume was well and truly pumped, and the driver blasting the horn had little initial effect - until it suddenly became apparent that a 158 was about to vapourise him and he bolted like a scalded pooch! It might be mildly amusing in this context, but so nearly not funny at all. Same goes for the fishermen I once saw casually strolling up the cess as we passed in the opposite direction, or the idiot trying to catch rabbits on the embankment. An everyday occurence all around the network of course.
As far as the issue of suicidal selfishness goes, I guess if you're at that stage of proceedings you probably just don't consider it, or just don't give a damn. Would it be a fair assesment to say that a lot of people who choose to end it have a pretty low opinion of the world, so maybe they just don't care a great deal for the effect on others of them killing themselves? If you think of Ufton Nervet, a guy derails an HST causing deaths among innocent people, or even Moorgate - if that was the cause, of course - perhaps it just isn't a consideration once you've crossed that line?
Last edited by CaravanClub; 30th September 2010 at 02:35.
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30th September 2010, 02:30
