Posted on 07/31/2023 2:58:07 PM PDT by DFG
A 14-year-old male who was spray-painting a building was hit and killed by the Seattle Center Monorail Sunday night.
Seattle Police said it happened shortly before 9 p.m. near Fifth Avenue and Denny Way. The man had climbed onto the roof of a building.
Surveillance video reviewed by the Seattle Police Department shows the man was spray-painting graffiti on a building next to the tracks before he was hit.
We believe this is the first time anyone has been hit and killed by the train, although there have been at least a few other high-profile incidents involving the Monorail in the past.
The Monorail opened on Mar. 24, 1962, and the only death we could find was when a maintenance worker was killed while making repairs in the 1970s.
In 1971, 27 people were hurt after the train slammed into a steel girder. More recently in 2004, a train caught fire after an electrical wire in the motor reportedly shorted.
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Oh well.
When will the lawsuits and congressional action begin against spray paint?
He was just a poor dumb aspiring artist trying to express himself said his mother
Now THAT’S social justice.
Agreed. Always a win when culling of the herd happens.
I will channel Howie Carr: Is Ted in the house?
Jews, Muslims and Catholic theology says boys become men at 14.
A 14 year old Negro vandal is always a "child" or a "boy" merely a baby.
A 14 year old White vandal is a "man" and should have known better.
“Not sure what to think. Was this kid just you [sic] basic punk...”
I’d have to see the artwork. If the tag was stupid looking he was your basic Punk, if it had merit maybe he had something going on but chances are... just a punk.
I remember riding the Monorail when it was brand new, during the 1962 World’s Fair.
And a 19-year-old of whatever race is always a “child” if he is shot.
All of the above.
Yes.
“The news said some kid got hit by the monorail.”
“Oh dear, that’s terrible. That happens so often it seems. They should mark the railroad crossings better. Make them have radar on the trains to automatically stop them if something is on the tracks. The government needs to do something!”
“Um - it’s the monorail.”
“I don’t care how many tracks it has - something needs to be done to save the children.”
“It’s 30 feet up in the air!”
And to think he probably would have been a concert pianist or discovered the cure for cancer.
At the very least you can bet he was an aspiring rapper.
When will the parents sue Seattle monorail?
Yep, scraped him right off.
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