Another reason not to relax around female cops
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I could jump on the bandwagon here but that's low hanging fruit. What the fuck is ANYONE doing to get this old, probably senile man OFF THE FUCKING TRACKS instead of calling the police and waiting for them to turn up and only have 24 seconds to respond?!
Even with a fit man turning up that's a tight time frame to do that and notice how a guy shows up AFTER the old man's legs have been smashed by the train. No one willing to be responsible and help those vulnerable, nah someone else can deal with it fucking sickening.
He could have been attempting suicide and refusing help.
So? Push his chair off the track, turn it off and wait for police to show up while there's no risk of traumatising a poor train driver.
That's one of the things I hate about these, for lack of better words, attention seeking suicides. For them it's probably over quick but they traumatise the driver and the people that have to clean up the mess after.
I'm simply saying that it's possible, or even probable, that this dude was actively resisting being moved off the track.
Honestly, If I was driving along and I just saw a dude in a wheelchair stopped on a track, I don't think I would stop.
And yes, suicide, public suicide, suicide by cop, etc., is awful and self-centered. Literally the easy way out while leaving others to pick up the pieces.
I knew a guy once who was part of a cleanup service that came in after fires, suicide, old person corpse rotting in an apartment for 2 months, that kind of shit. He said the deathfats were by far the worst, but after that, shotgun suicide. He also didn't seem that bothered by any of it. I guess after you've seen enough... He was an odd duck.
You have to be in that field of work, it's why you have to warn some people out of certain professions because they mentally cannot cope with that kind of work.
First thing that comes into my mind is veterinarians, too many people think 'I get to look after all the cute animals' not realising your job is to deal with them when they are weak and sick usually...
Yeah, even I, as one of those, have thought very clearly about ensuring that, if I did ever do it, I would leave as little mess, and as little trauma, as possible…
Still awful, of course, but… I would try to minimize the direct “impact”, in this sense.
Trouble is, though, ensuring lethality, which is why… The shotgun route is so popular.
How incredibly morbid.
After seeing what’s going on in my area after new train started running I’m inclined to believe this. Three homeless people threw themselves in front of a train, another homeless man was clipped by one, and a lady “broke down” on the tracks with her less than a year old daughter in the car. We didn’t even have this train running for a year.
Could it be that the old man called the police himself?
We don' know what happened before this, but I coulda lifted that guy off the tracks if his chair wouldn't roll for some reason.