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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ANd this year’s darwin award goes to...
Not sure what to think. Was this kid just you basic punk who was bound to have some kind of bad ending or was he failed by his parents and others?
Plot twist: He was high on the paint fumes.
Too bad.
So sad.
Ooops
Good!
Death to Taggers!
It’s easier to hose down the train than to clean the graffiti from a wall.
....while attempting to paint a Michelangelo, he himself became a Picaso.
He got tagged while tagging.
I imagine there may have a lengthy debris field too.
Did I read that right? Since when is a 14 y-old called a “ man”?
Stupid people die in stupid ways.
“Dumb Ways To Die”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
That said, . . .
“...the man was spray-painting graffiti...”
A 14 year old kid is NOT a man yet, you idiots!!!!
Problem solved, bill the family for cleanup of graffiti and his body.
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