With ‘Suicide By Train’ Up, LA Metro Appeals For Help

AP) ^ | September 23, 2013 8:20 AM

[BenLurkin]

Since the beginning of last year, seven people have thrown themselves in front of trains on the Blue Line, which traverses some of the county’s poorest areas on its 22-mile route between downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Before the recent increase, suicides had averaged one per year since the line opened in 1990, according to Metro spokesman Marc Littman

[School of Rational Thought]

Access to easy to these high capacity assault trains.

Stop all the trains. If only one life is saved. No one needs a train.

[Paladin2]

Install enhanced cow catchers.

Or just shut public transportation down.

[Alex Murphy]

Stop all the trains. If only one life is saved. No one needs a train.

We need "train control" now! No more unlicensed trains!

[wbill]

I’ve not seen Willie Green around for awhile. hmmmmm.......

[BwanaNdege]

If they manage to fix this problem, “suicide by inertia [horizontal]” will just be replaced by “suicide by inertia [vertical]”, otherwise known as “gravity”.

(”Mother Earth loves you and wants you near”)

Liberal minds never can seem to realize that it is the person committing the act, not the “hardware”, that needs to be dealt with.

[oh8eleven]

Suicide By Train

[dfwgator]

“Dumb ways to die...”

[forgotten man]

Anybody who attempts to commit suicide by train should by shot on sight.

[NCDave]

LOL...good movie “Sucka”....(”Runaway train” for those wondering)

[EQAndyBuzz]

Two words, tractor beams

[BenLurkin]

ping

[autumnraine]

It’s the economy stupid.

[Verginius Rufus]

Ban copies of Anna Karenina. That's where they are getting the idea.

[Veggie Todd]

They need to ban these high-capacity assault trains.

[Studebaker Hawk]

Bullet train no doubt