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Atlanta transit leader CEO Jeffrey Parker dead (jumped in front of train)
NY Post ^ | 12/16/22

Posted on 01/16/2022 10:34:22 AM PST by BusterDog

ATLANTA — Jeffrey Parker, who led the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority during a time of expansion and then during the pandemic when public transportation ridership plummeted, has died, the agency announced.

A spokesperson for the agency, Stephany Fisher, said that Parker killed himself when he was struck by a train in the East Lake Station in DeKalb County at about 10:30 p.m. Friday.

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To: Lurkinanloomin

Makes me wonder if someone warned him that the light at the end of the tunnel was a train...


21 posted on 01/16/2022 11:08:51 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Lurkinanloomin

A forensic audit of MARTA is gonna be fun....

It will be graft moving rapidly through Atlanta.


22 posted on 01/16/2022 11:11:28 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: glorgau

My late brother in law was a train driver. He said the worst feeling in the world was watching people standing next to the tracks or in their cars and knowing they were going to step/pull in front of you and there was nothing you could do and it was a dead giveaway because he could see them far off, just waiting.

He said he killed a couple people but had a friend that had killed 12 people until he finally killed himself.


23 posted on 01/16/2022 11:14:48 AM PST by shotgun
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To: cockroach_magoo
Atlanta Karenina...

Oh man. Too soon I think.

24 posted on 01/16/2022 11:14:54 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: Dacula
MARTA is also corrupt and filled with nepotism.

As is every major urban mass transportation organization.

I always joke that The Metro in DC / VA / MD is a jobs program and any transportation it provides is incidental.

25 posted on 01/16/2022 11:18:16 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: BusterDog

Too many people with moods induced by the excessive hyperbole from the media (that folks allowed the media to do to them), on every subject, from “race”, to “Trump”, to the Covid pandemic. The media has helped induce tons of individuals into a sense of helplessness. Not having faith in G-d goes a long way toward allowing that to happen.


26 posted on 01/16/2022 11:19:00 AM PST by Wuli
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To: shotgun

They did not kill those people. Those people used the train to kill themselves.

I understand why they think that though. But its not right.


27 posted on 01/16/2022 11:23:35 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BusterDog

“killed himself when he was struck by a train”
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Can’t anybody right a straight news lead anymore?


28 posted on 01/16/2022 11:23:48 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Rummyfan
Too soon I think.

Maybe. My intent wasn't to make light of his death, but to point out that her suicide was symbolic and it seems he intended for his to be as well.

29 posted on 01/16/2022 11:24:09 AM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: Rocky

“Weird stuff going on these days.”


Yes, it’s getting hard to keep track of.


30 posted on 01/16/2022 11:29:04 AM PST by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Where is the train with the fake ballots..??


31 posted on 01/16/2022 11:29:59 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Ken H
Yes, it’s getting hard to keep track of.

I see what you did there...... :)

32 posted on 01/16/2022 11:30:38 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<---Need to change my name to CAluvNV since I now live in NV. )
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To: ptsal

I suspect this is about missing money, completely unrelated to the election theft.


33 posted on 01/16/2022 11:33:16 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: IMTOFT

There is something very odd about this.
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Jumping in front of a train seems odd?


34 posted on 01/16/2022 11:35:55 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Correct. I didn’t mean to imply they were the killers


35 posted on 01/16/2022 11:36:26 AM PST by shotgun
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To: BusterDog

And yesterday a CEO jumped off his building to his death? What are they putting in their lattes?


36 posted on 01/16/2022 11:40:10 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Wuli

The media has helped induce tons of individuals into a sense of helplessness.
.......................................
Probably true, but on the other hand, nobody with an IQ above room temperature places ANY credibility in anything reported in the MSM.


37 posted on 01/16/2022 11:44:26 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: shotgun

What Secret Agent Man said.


38 posted on 01/16/2022 11:48:56 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Well I might take a train
I might take a plane, but if I have to walk
I'm going just the same

39 posted on 01/16/2022 11:49:58 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: BusterDog; Impy; fieldmarshaldj

He who lives by the train, dies by the train ...


40 posted on 01/16/2022 11:58:54 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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