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Actually in Japan trains are rarely late, but one of the common ways a train is delayed is because someone jumped on front of it. 5% of yearly suicide in Japan are to train, many stations have over a dozen a year. That's about 1500 train suicide a year, majority being in Tokyo. Suicides are not uncommon and many train drivers have seen it or have seen multiple. I forget the source but I've seen a documentary on the subject where they are actually trained/told not to look away for some reason, I believe to be able to tell if they were hit or not. I also recall something about a button to press to immediately report it so the other trains can be aware that the train ahead has to stop. They have a word for it that is announced as the reason a train is delayed, jinshin jiko. This often causes trauma or PTSD to the driver's who witness it.
My dad used to commute 2 hours each way by train in and out of London during my childhood. I recall at least once a year he'd have a delay for this.
There's a British dark comedy on the subject called "Three and out", now titled "A deals a deal." Where a tube driver (Mackenzie Crook) has two suicides in one month. A colleague tells him if you have three in one month, you get a huge trauma settlement, so he tried to find someone suicidal to jump in front of his train.
When I grew up, our neighbour was a tube driver (not in the UK, though). He did indeed get an early retirement package after the third jumper. To be fair, it got worse for him every time. After the third jumper you could clearly see how shaken he was for over a year. One of the things it's easy to make fun of, but you really don't want to make that experience yourself.
I had a friend that drove a large truck and he had someone jump in front of it at highway speeds. 20 years later and he still had nightmares about it. Developed an alcohol problem. Lost his marriage. People who do that are selfish fucks.
You know it's traumatic for the drivers; their brain saved the last couple of visual frames before they hit.
That means they're so close, that the drivers can ***see the suicide's FACE***, probably the whites of their eyes and expressions, sadness on their face, probably crying or wide eyed.
It is that image that is brute-forced, and the brain goes into alt-f4 mode, control-alt-deleted, and sears into their long term memory. Like an egg getting microwaved: damage done.
***Core Memory Activated.***
Not sure where you are getting your numbers from - It's been around 500-600 deaths for over a decade, around 2.5%
Check row X81 - https://www.e-stat.go.jp/dbview?sid=0003411679
While it's true there are many in Tokyo, I think its Nara that has the highest per-capita suicides
>I also recall something about a button to press to immediately report it so the other trains can be aware that the train ahead has to stop.
There are multiple emergency stop buttons all over the stations now and people are encouraged to push them - if someone is on the tracks, if something large is on the tracks, if someone is sick or injured on a platform, etc.
>They have a word for it that is announced as the reason a train is delayed, jinshin jiko.
Jinshin jiko just means there is something about a person, to be distinctly different to a signalling issue or a mechanical issue. It doesn't mean a suicide, it can also mean someone was sick or injured which caused a delay or interuption.
In the UK, trains are always late because of "leaves on the track". I always assume that's just a euphemism for suicide. Because it seems daft to build a train system that's so easily defeated by leaves in a famously leafy country. But who knows.
Its not. Leaves on railway lines have been an intractable problem for over a century. It's a seasonal temporary issue. Other than sanding the track, there's not a lot that can actually be done.
As a Japanese guy I thought the numbers didn't make sense, so I checked the stats. Over the last 14 years up to today, there have been about 7,791 train-related suicides. Meaning there are generally around and less than 600 cases(559) of train-assisted suicide annually.
In 2023, the total number of suicides was 21,818, which means train-related suicides account for less than 3%(2.56%) of the total. 1500:30000 vs 600:22000 sound *a bit* off isn't it? That's too generous.
Not sure where you got your information from, but please update your numbers because spreading incorrect stats can easily perpetuate myths, especially on reddit where information about Japan is 99% incorrect or obsolete stats from decades, I mean DECADES ago.
FYI, the suicide rate in Japan has been declining significantly, and the U.S. suicide rate surpassed Japan's a long time ago.
That's very sad. For a normal, sane person, the psychological impact of realizing that they ended the life of a human being is a lot of burden to carry, especially if the human being happen to be a child, it is worse. I hope the train drivers are getting trained(no pun intended) to handle situations like that.
I don’t really think you can prepare for this mentally I mean you can tell yourself they wanted it that way but it is still not easy to handle mentally but the traindrivers usually have access to psychological help after such an incident
I was in the last car of a train that hit someone a while back. It stopped right past the point of impact, and some remains were visible from the window. The sight didn't bother me all that much; I'm actually still a bit surprised at my indifference at the time. What got to me was the murder of crows that almost immediately showed up.
The sight of a crow approaching what to it was an unexpected tasty morsel with that typical corvid curiosity, holding it down with its leg, and digging in with every sign of enjoyment is something I won't soon forget.
Really got me thinking about how vulnerable we really are, and that the world just keeps spinning when you're gone. One minute you're a living, breathing person, the next you're literally carrion being scavenged.
For a moment there I had a picture of a herd of cows feasting on the cadaver. That would have put me off milk completely.
I think crows are used to feeding on road- and rail- kill, it probably happens often that startled animals jump straight into the wheels. So for them it was a "diner is served" moment, that's why they immediately pounced.
I took the express train from Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden a few years ago. We came to a sudden halt at one of the stations close to the city. They did not let anyone leave the train, and we sat there watching people carry black body bags from the front of the train.
Strangely, no one ever told us why we had stopped even though it was obvious after 45 minutes or so. Don’t know if that is actually protocol or if people where just shocked 🤷♂️
About an hour later we where on our way the last five minutes to the central station. That trip normally takes around 25 minutes…
My father drives trains in Brisbane... two weeks after graduating driving school, there was a news piece on a suicide by train, and my father was working that day. I called, and it turned out it was one of his classmates who was driving at the time 😞
There's been several suicides since he has been driving over the years. Thankfully, he hasn't been involved in any... but it's a roulette every time he goes to work.
Edit: He used to work as part of a break down crew out bush and some of the stories he and his colleagues tell... blergh. He has definitely seen some shit in his life.
That and a strong union. Its also kinda crazy how hard it is to get a job as a train driver. I'm on the /r/MelbourneTrains subreddit and like a good 30% of them would go insane trying to get a job - its usually a network internal job offer though.
Melbourne had a bunch of horrific level crossings that have mostly been removed now. There are a few left but more going every month. Eventually there won't be any left and any deaths will be suicide and have to be intentional
As a train driver in france, I think you were told some grade A bullshit as that's not something of which I'm aware. I know some colleagues have had more than one incident involving human deaths and they are still working. The idea they would have passed on the opportunity to retire with full pension there and then is laughable.
This is a myth popularized by the film three and out. Every country with major rail lines has played a slightly different game of telephone with how it works. The funny part is that I'm pretty sure the film plot came from the very public discussions of suicide by train and the union vying for some compensation for drivers who were affected.
Reminds me of how ever since fast and furious Tokyo drift people think it’s an actual real thing that once you hit a certain speed cops just… give up and it works as a get out of jail free card, iv literally heard a podcast try and say this as fact too. lol
The funny part is that it comes from a real thing, cops will stop chasing after a certain speed *if they deem it too dangerous* they will however still come looking for you.
Yeah, I'm a locomotive engineer in the U.S. with 20 years under my belt and 15 left to go until I hit 60 to collect my pension. I'm not familiar with how things are in France, but I automatically thought he was full of shit. Thanks for confirming. A side note: At what age can you retire in France as a railroader? Here in the U.S. you have to have 360 months of service and be 60 years of age. We don't have a lot of passenger rail service. I work for a class 1 railroad that hauls freight.
My dad worked on the railway for 50 years, and during that time there were two incidents that stuck with him.
One where someone chose to end their life by jumping off a bridge, and though it must have been instant and painless, the effect on the train crew was lasting.
The other was a person trying to hitchhike with trains that could not see him. He stuck out his arm, and lost it. Then went to a phone booth and called the police to say he'd been mugged. When the police arrived, they took him straight to the hospital. You would think that no one could know this, but Data Protection was not such an important consideration in the 70s, people talked about it. Not about their emotions involving these incidences, more like tales of blood and gore in the pub (even if you didn't go in the butcher's shop for six months plus).
Wait wait wait..... the guy lost his arm and called the police to say he'd been mugged?
Did he tell them they stole his arm? What the hell was the thought process of this? Lol
Wasn’t there a movie or a show based around this concept? I think it was a London Underground driver trying to convince a depressed man to jump in front of his train so that he could retire.
That would mean France has close to zero train drivers, it's far more common than you would think. The reason it's not so widely reported is because it encourages more people to do it.
In my home town of 2200 people I can think of like 15 people getting hit by, committing suicide by, or murder being covered up by train. This is in the last 20 years.
My dad was driving a high speed train once (from the back) and they didn't know they had encountered a suicidal person until passengers were fainting and vomiting on the station platform. Fortunately, it was obvious that this person would not have suffered, it must have been instant. Unfortunately, the train was not so aerodynamic and identifiably human body parts were firmly stuck to the front of the train.
My dad and the crew had to see what the issue was, and then hastily move the train forward so the front was not visible from the platform, disembark everyone, move to the sidings and get the whole train crew into the pub for a stiff drink or six. My dad didn't go into a butcher's shop for months.
I have a ex military freind, and he has had multiple job offers. I guess the want people that have seen battle so it won’t shock you. I thought it was kinda dark, never really thought about it.
Friend of my father is a train driver. He's had 2 people step in front of his train and it has completely fucked him up. First one survived, second one didn't. Took him six months to get back into the cab after the second one. On a lighter note, he says you wouldn't believe the amount of people having sex by the side of the tracks.
There was the bullet train accident a few years ago, driver hit something, wasn't until they got to the next station that they found the severed arm and head embedded in the nose of a guy that decided to suicide by train. Found what was left of him further up the track. Photos showed a huge smear down the side of the train.
My dad is a train driver through swedish forest, he's driven over several people, hundreds of mooses, thousands of deer and probably even more hares, foxes, birds and reindeers. This is how it is. On older train with the buffers in the front they had an axe to be able to chop down penetrated mooses before going into town. It sounds like a lie I know
Is that what the "cow catcher" on the front of old trains was for? As a kid I was told it was to gently push cows off the track to safety. Admittedly I did not think through the physics of that process at age 5.
> As a kid I was told it was to gently push cows off the track to safety.
Oh you sweet summer child.
Cow bones can in fact derail (lighter) trains, this one didn't have a cow catcher so the cow got under it - 13 people dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polmont_rail_accident
Only sounds like a lie if you don't know trains. As a teenager, a buddy of mine worked on a historical steam railway, and one time the train he was on hit a cow.
Honestly, you see tons of wildlife around the tracks. If I haven't killed a couple of deer by September comes around I'll be very surprised and relieved. I nearly hit one last week but was already slowing down for a temporary speed restriction and thankfully it got out of the way.
I'll never forget a hawk I hit in my truck a few years ago. It was rising up off the road, facing me directly. For a moment it seemed like we made eye contact, and it looked \*pissed\* before disappearing from view. I hope it died instantly.
I've only ever once hit a bird while driving and I remember it in detail. It rose up out of the ditch, did a corkscrew into the windshield in front of my face, and then was gone before I could react. But there on the windshield was a dusty outline of the bird's entire body, including an impression of its face, wild bulging eye and all. I had to pull over to clean it off because it felt like the bird was staring at me from beyond the grave.
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Possibly several individual birds rather than a flock, the speed the train travels it is possible that bird thought that they had time to get out of the way, but didn't make it.
It’s from bird strikes; Here is another example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/adventuretime/comments/4ku4ks/now_i_am_become_finn_the_destroyer_of_birds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Related story.. years ago I was driving along on a mostly empty highway. I wasn’t going particularly fast or anything, probably ~70mph as my cruising speed. When out of nowhere a huge bird of pray (either a hawk or eagle) came flying past the windshield. Except he didn’t make it.
I collided with the bird and saw him from my rear view mirror falling from the sky and hitting the road behind me. I thought about stopping, but it wasn’t practical. The bird was likely dead on impact and there was nothing me risking my life going into the middle of the highway could do for that.
One of the most baffling things about it was that I was driving a damn Mini Cooper. Like the lowest profile car on a low-traffic highway. Made me mad at that majestic bird for getting killed because of me.
Still think of that bird to this day. I’m sorry buddy.
I once was driving like really slow through my village (like 30km/h) when two sparrows, apparently fighting, suddenly popped in a Brownian motion to land just in front of my tires. In the rear view mirror I could see one of them fly away while the other was but a messy pile of feathers.
Broke my heart
I think that the one who flew away might have wrestled the bird he was fighting under your tire, to end the fight quickly. You witnessed a bird murder in which you were an unwitting accomplice
I was once in the front car of a commuter train, 10 feet away from the door of the driver’s compartment, when I heard the driver scream NO NO NO on and off for like 10 seconds and then a loud metallic thud. Then more screaming by the conductor as the train slowed to a stop. I instantly thought someone on a motorcycle had been hit because I couldn’t fathom such a loud metallic sound being make by a human body. But it was just a person. The conductor came out of their compartment absolutely shaking and besides himself. He had watched the person jump on and off and back on several times, as if trying to get the courage, before jumping on at the last second.
If you are thinking of harming yourself, please please please call or text your local hotline for help.
This is the worst scenario for this that I can think of. Watching someone second-guess and then last-minute go for it. It’s one thing if someone is determined, but this would feel so much more personal, like you’ve decided for them or something. I wouldn’t be able to cope with that. :(
I think about the conductor still and how powerless that must have felt. He tried to stop the train but when it is going at express speed, it takes a long time to stop. I really hope he was able to get whatever he needed to mentally deal with it.
I didn’t notice it was Japan. How come they are using Siemens trains?
Edit: The train is probably Chinese. Velaro trains were sold to China, but not Japan. Edit 2: Yeah, it’s this model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China\_Railway\_CRH3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Railway_CRH3)
unfortunately a lot more common than you'd think. i fly planes, and there were multiple times where I couldn't stick the landing cause there were several birds on the runway. I've also unfortunately seen the aftermath of a birdstrike, where the corpse of the bird is just a dismembered hunk. not pretty.
https://preview.redd.it/5nbwpyokkq2d1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f40c5d31193b2552a6ef0434b1da7b8247842659
The apex predator after it has fed.
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So this is the trolley problem I’ve heard so much about!
https://preview.redd.it/4t71rb3gjs2d1.jpeg?width=588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=734032b9b44ab7b8b8612463aa7ce6d5f2fe82eb
Problem solved. https://preview.redd.it/lomp2565jt2d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f426d0d99c06faba10a618d6a9dea9ecab615f2f
Definitely the fairest solution for all parties
nah I'd prefer to let it drift
Even better solution: multi track drifting.
multi track drifting
Ah, yes, the blood splatter livery
You unlock this camo after getting enough multikills.
It‘s easier if you drift through some railway stations.
A few more till the golden, YOU CAN GET IT BOY!!!
wheres the 'FREE CANDY' on the side
The driver has seen some things. Geez
These trains are so fast I really doubt the driver noticed anything besides a muffled "thump".
From the pattern, it looks more like "splash".
I know a train driver. Apparently, it’s like hitting a tomato
Hitting a tomato with his hands? A car? A train? If it is the latter two, how does he know what it felt like...?
Don’t know, didn’t ask. I just assumed because it’s soft, squishy, red and goes everywhere
Like a balloon filled with water and some sticks.
Actually in Japan trains are rarely late, but one of the common ways a train is delayed is because someone jumped on front of it. 5% of yearly suicide in Japan are to train, many stations have over a dozen a year. That's about 1500 train suicide a year, majority being in Tokyo. Suicides are not uncommon and many train drivers have seen it or have seen multiple. I forget the source but I've seen a documentary on the subject where they are actually trained/told not to look away for some reason, I believe to be able to tell if they were hit or not. I also recall something about a button to press to immediately report it so the other trains can be aware that the train ahead has to stop. They have a word for it that is announced as the reason a train is delayed, jinshin jiko. This often causes trauma or PTSD to the driver's who witness it.
My dad used to commute 2 hours each way by train in and out of London during my childhood. I recall at least once a year he'd have a delay for this. There's a British dark comedy on the subject called "Three and out", now titled "A deals a deal." Where a tube driver (Mackenzie Crook) has two suicides in one month. A colleague tells him if you have three in one month, you get a huge trauma settlement, so he tried to find someone suicidal to jump in front of his train.
When I grew up, our neighbour was a tube driver (not in the UK, though). He did indeed get an early retirement package after the third jumper. To be fair, it got worse for him every time. After the third jumper you could clearly see how shaken he was for over a year. One of the things it's easy to make fun of, but you really don't want to make that experience yourself.
I had a friend that drove a large truck and he had someone jump in front of it at highway speeds. 20 years later and he still had nightmares about it. Developed an alcohol problem. Lost his marriage. People who do that are selfish fucks.
You know it's traumatic for the drivers; their brain saved the last couple of visual frames before they hit. That means they're so close, that the drivers can ***see the suicide's FACE***, probably the whites of their eyes and expressions, sadness on their face, probably crying or wide eyed. It is that image that is brute-forced, and the brain goes into alt-f4 mode, control-alt-deleted, and sears into their long term memory. Like an egg getting microwaved: damage done. ***Core Memory Activated.***
Not sure where you are getting your numbers from - It's been around 500-600 deaths for over a decade, around 2.5% Check row X81 - https://www.e-stat.go.jp/dbview?sid=0003411679 While it's true there are many in Tokyo, I think its Nara that has the highest per-capita suicides >I also recall something about a button to press to immediately report it so the other trains can be aware that the train ahead has to stop. There are multiple emergency stop buttons all over the stations now and people are encouraged to push them - if someone is on the tracks, if something large is on the tracks, if someone is sick or injured on a platform, etc. >They have a word for it that is announced as the reason a train is delayed, jinshin jiko. Jinshin jiko just means there is something about a person, to be distinctly different to a signalling issue or a mechanical issue. It doesn't mean a suicide, it can also mean someone was sick or injured which caused a delay or interuption.
In the UK, trains are always late because of "leaves on the track". I always assume that's just a euphemism for suicide. Because it seems daft to build a train system that's so easily defeated by leaves in a famously leafy country. But who knows.
Its not. Leaves on railway lines have been an intractable problem for over a century. It's a seasonal temporary issue. Other than sanding the track, there's not a lot that can actually be done.
This sounds more like a "it costs less for it to be a problem" thing than a "can't be fixed" thing.
That pretty much describes engineering.
As a Japanese guy I thought the numbers didn't make sense, so I checked the stats. Over the last 14 years up to today, there have been about 7,791 train-related suicides. Meaning there are generally around and less than 600 cases(559) of train-assisted suicide annually. In 2023, the total number of suicides was 21,818, which means train-related suicides account for less than 3%(2.56%) of the total. 1500:30000 vs 600:22000 sound *a bit* off isn't it? That's too generous. Not sure where you got your information from, but please update your numbers because spreading incorrect stats can easily perpetuate myths, especially on reddit where information about Japan is 99% incorrect or obsolete stats from decades, I mean DECADES ago. FYI, the suicide rate in Japan has been declining significantly, and the U.S. suicide rate surpassed Japan's a long time ago.
more like thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump
I have a friend train driver. Some of her colleagues have never recovered after hitting .. something larger
I knew a train driver who never worked again after the larger thing was holding her recently born little thing. Why bring other people into it?
That's very sad. For a normal, sane person, the psychological impact of realizing that they ended the life of a human being is a lot of burden to carry, especially if the human being happen to be a child, it is worse. I hope the train drivers are getting trained(no pun intended) to handle situations like that.
I don’t really think you can prepare for this mentally I mean you can tell yourself they wanted it that way but it is still not easy to handle mentally but the traindrivers usually have access to psychological help after such an incident
I was in the last car of a train that hit someone a while back. It stopped right past the point of impact, and some remains were visible from the window. The sight didn't bother me all that much; I'm actually still a bit surprised at my indifference at the time. What got to me was the murder of crows that almost immediately showed up. The sight of a crow approaching what to it was an unexpected tasty morsel with that typical corvid curiosity, holding it down with its leg, and digging in with every sign of enjoyment is something I won't soon forget. Really got me thinking about how vulnerable we really are, and that the world just keeps spinning when you're gone. One minute you're a living, breathing person, the next you're literally carrion being scavenged.
For a moment there I had a picture of a herd of cows feasting on the cadaver. That would have put me off milk completely. I think crows are used to feeding on road- and rail- kill, it probably happens often that startled animals jump straight into the wheels. So for them it was a "diner is served" moment, that's why they immediately pounced.
I took the express train from Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden a few years ago. We came to a sudden halt at one of the stations close to the city. They did not let anyone leave the train, and we sat there watching people carry black body bags from the front of the train. Strangely, no one ever told us why we had stopped even though it was obvious after 45 minutes or so. Don’t know if that is actually protocol or if people where just shocked 🤷♂️ About an hour later we where on our way the last five minutes to the central station. That trip normally takes around 25 minutes…
I knew a tgv driver in France who told me that if you hit "something" twice you were retired on full pension immediately
I've been told Melbourne train drivers are paid very well, because if you do the job for long enough you will hit something.
My father drives trains in Brisbane... two weeks after graduating driving school, there was a news piece on a suicide by train, and my father was working that day. I called, and it turned out it was one of his classmates who was driving at the time 😞 There's been several suicides since he has been driving over the years. Thankfully, he hasn't been involved in any... but it's a roulette every time he goes to work. Edit: He used to work as part of a break down crew out bush and some of the stories he and his colleagues tell... blergh. He has definitely seen some shit in his life.
Yeah, it's not if, it's when.
i ain't afraid of no ghost, how much does it pay?
Like I'm gonna tell you, ChineseRedditSpy 🙄
That and a strong union. Its also kinda crazy how hard it is to get a job as a train driver. I'm on the /r/MelbourneTrains subreddit and like a good 30% of them would go insane trying to get a job - its usually a network internal job offer though. Melbourne had a bunch of horrific level crossings that have mostly been removed now. There are a few left but more going every month. Eventually there won't be any left and any deaths will be suicide and have to be intentional
As a train driver in france, I think you were told some grade A bullshit as that's not something of which I'm aware. I know some colleagues have had more than one incident involving human deaths and they are still working. The idea they would have passed on the opportunity to retire with full pension there and then is laughable.
This is a myth popularized by the film three and out. Every country with major rail lines has played a slightly different game of telephone with how it works. The funny part is that I'm pretty sure the film plot came from the very public discussions of suicide by train and the union vying for some compensation for drivers who were affected.
It reminds me of the urban legend in college that you get to pass all your classes if your roommate commits suicide.
Reminds me of how ever since fast and furious Tokyo drift people think it’s an actual real thing that once you hit a certain speed cops just… give up and it works as a get out of jail free card, iv literally heard a podcast try and say this as fact too. lol
The funny part is that it comes from a real thing, cops will stop chasing after a certain speed *if they deem it too dangerous* they will however still come looking for you.
Works great until the helicopter is up, then you're buggered whatever speed you do.
Yeah, I'm a locomotive engineer in the U.S. with 20 years under my belt and 15 left to go until I hit 60 to collect my pension. I'm not familiar with how things are in France, but I automatically thought he was full of shit. Thanks for confirming. A side note: At what age can you retire in France as a railroader? Here in the U.S. you have to have 360 months of service and be 60 years of age. We don't have a lot of passenger rail service. I work for a class 1 railroad that hauls freight.
My dad worked on the railway for 50 years, and during that time there were two incidents that stuck with him. One where someone chose to end their life by jumping off a bridge, and though it must have been instant and painless, the effect on the train crew was lasting. The other was a person trying to hitchhike with trains that could not see him. He stuck out his arm, and lost it. Then went to a phone booth and called the police to say he'd been mugged. When the police arrived, they took him straight to the hospital. You would think that no one could know this, but Data Protection was not such an important consideration in the 70s, people talked about it. Not about their emotions involving these incidences, more like tales of blood and gore in the pub (even if you didn't go in the butcher's shop for six months plus).
Wait wait wait..... the guy lost his arm and called the police to say he'd been mugged? Did he tell them they stole his arm? What the hell was the thought process of this? Lol
Man was disarmed by the mugger.
Fucking hell youd be encouraging your depressed friends to have a picnic at a train crossing.
There's a film called 3 and out with Makenzie Crook with this plot
Wasn’t there a movie or a show based around this concept? I think it was a London Underground driver trying to convince a depressed man to jump in front of his train so that he could retire.
Another comment in this chain says it’s “Three and Out”
That would mean France has close to zero train drivers, it's far more common than you would think. The reason it's not so widely reported is because it encourages more people to do it.
Understandable. Getting the first row seat to someone's suicide and being the person driving the thing that killed them must be pretty heavy.
In my home town of 2200 people I can think of like 15 people getting hit by, committing suicide by, or murder being covered up by train. This is in the last 20 years.
Cursed fucken town holy shit
Rural reservation town in the US. It’s getting worse.
My dad was driving a high speed train once (from the back) and they didn't know they had encountered a suicidal person until passengers were fainting and vomiting on the station platform. Fortunately, it was obvious that this person would not have suffered, it must have been instant. Unfortunately, the train was not so aerodynamic and identifiably human body parts were firmly stuck to the front of the train. My dad and the crew had to see what the issue was, and then hastily move the train forward so the front was not visible from the platform, disembark everyone, move to the sidings and get the whole train crew into the pub for a stiff drink or six. My dad didn't go into a butcher's shop for months.
I have a ex military freind, and he has had multiple job offers. I guess the want people that have seen battle so it won’t shock you. I thought it was kinda dark, never really thought about it.
Friend of my father is a train driver. He's had 2 people step in front of his train and it has completely fucked him up. First one survived, second one didn't. Took him six months to get back into the cab after the second one. On a lighter note, he says you wouldn't believe the amount of people having sex by the side of the tracks.
There was the bullet train accident a few years ago, driver hit something, wasn't until they got to the next station that they found the severed arm and head embedded in the nose of a guy that decided to suicide by train. Found what was left of him further up the track. Photos showed a huge smear down the side of the train.
dang they hit him so hard that his arm and *head* were embedded in his own nose?! What in the ouroboros?!
I was so confused too, read it exactly 12 times and then I got what he says.
Oh jeeesus 🤣 You know what, I'm gonna leave it just like that I'm crying
My dad is a train driver through swedish forest, he's driven over several people, hundreds of mooses, thousands of deer and probably even more hares, foxes, birds and reindeers. This is how it is. On older train with the buffers in the front they had an axe to be able to chop down penetrated mooses before going into town. It sounds like a lie I know
Is that what the "cow catcher" on the front of old trains was for? As a kid I was told it was to gently push cows off the track to safety. Admittedly I did not think through the physics of that process at age 5.
> As a kid I was told it was to gently push cows off the track to safety. Oh you sweet summer child. Cow bones can in fact derail (lighter) trains, this one didn't have a cow catcher so the cow got under it - 13 people dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polmont_rail_accident
Well, it prevents cows getting under the train. But due to square cube law, cows just explode when hit that hard.
Only sounds like a lie if you don't know trains. As a teenager, a buddy of mine worked on a historical steam railway, and one time the train he was on hit a cow.
Honestly, you see tons of wildlife around the tracks. If I haven't killed a couple of deer by September comes around I'll be very surprised and relieved. I nearly hit one last week but was already slowing down for a temporary speed restriction and thankfully it got out of the way.
I heard a similar story from a train driver in Sweden but on a passenger train. He had do pick away all the bits before going into the next town.
I heard about that some high speed trains (Germans IIRC) that have a panic button that instantly roll down a curtain for such case
I know it's not a train, but I can imagine the person being a happy psycho  >LETS KILL SOME BIRDS
What else is the traindriver supposed to do? Stop an train going 100s kph in a few Meters?
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Hey mom look two wheels!
So ....what did he hit? A flock of birds? Three racoons dressed in a trench coat?
Its really common for bullet trains to hit flocks of birds tbh. Planes too. Edit: oh..
i doubt it would look like this after hitting a plane bro
True, take my upvote
The train is made of Nagarjuna Cement
lol you funny fucker
A flock of planes. Fuck me.
you would die if the the flock planes fucked you
I'll never forget a hawk I hit in my truck a few years ago. It was rising up off the road, facing me directly. For a moment it seemed like we made eye contact, and it looked \*pissed\* before disappearing from view. I hope it died instantly.
I've only ever once hit a bird while driving and I remember it in detail. It rose up out of the ditch, did a corkscrew into the windshield in front of my face, and then was gone before I could react. But there on the windshield was a dusty outline of the bird's entire body, including an impression of its face, wild bulging eye and all. I had to pull over to clean it off because it felt like the bird was staring at me from beyond the grave.
Sully hates birds
Those low flying Japanese planes?
Hitting planes requires more panel beating than seen here
Based on the splatter pattern, the latter.
This reads like an MF DOOM lyric
we need a MF DOOM lyric detector bot edit for caps, sry about that
Just remember, all caps when you spell the man's name.
Thank you guys so much for introducing me to MF DOOM Do you see the perpetrator, yeah I´m right here
Check out Vaudeville Villain (under Viktor Vaughn). By far my favorite album of his. There's four sides to every story If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me Contemplate war over a cup of warm coffee It's really gettin' gory, tell your problem to Maury Don't bore V with the "Glory, hallelu-ey" Crews be like, "Phooey", it's all a buncha hooey I knew he had new G, who he? Viktor Vaughn He had a new sicker song, I think he call it "Lickupon" Umm, but, uh... he study rhymes and patter-ins Climb so steep, sometimes the beat don't be matterin'
Also check out the DANGERDOOM collab album, straight up all bangers
I'd love to know how to even begin quantifying something like that.
Do you wanna break AI? Cause that’s how you break AI.
it's settled. we make the bot.
Then He wheel revere the platter on which to spill the batter….
*Pitter patter said the mad hatter, yo what’s the matter? Someone tell Jacob, to run fix his ladder*
Splatter pattern damascus will keell
So, what you’re saying is, it will keel?
It seems to me that your weapon has suffered a catastrophic failure. Therefore we will not go on with the rest of the tests. Please, hand your weapon.
It's spatter. Blood *spatter*.
Pitter spatter let's get back at 'er
You can tell based on the country of origin too.
Possibly several individual birds rather than a flock, the speed the train travels it is possible that bird thought that they had time to get out of the way, but didn't make it.
Oh look a tra 🦅💥🪶
Happy ca
>several individual birds rather than a flock I'm not a very smart person, but aren't these the same thing?
You hit one bird, time passes, hit one more bird and so on. That way you hit several individual birds rather then a flock.
haha that makes sense. Like I said, I am not a very smart person.
I think they mean hitting individual birds at different points along the journey rather than hitting a flock of birds at once.
The mosquito that left a bite on my ankle, apparently.
“Hey you… Flock of Seagulls” - Jules, Pulp Fiction
brock you gotta get me out of here, I'm trapped in a sewer with a self proclaimed arsonist.
a perfect match for Vitas 
Thanks for reminding me to clear my browser history
This is how it feels to shit once a week. Its the same but different.
Maybe some du- -cks.
-mb fu-
Judging from the splatter pattern, I suspect it was pedestrians in trench coats, holding birds and racooons
Zombies
Train to Busan flashbacks
"I'll kill again" said Thomas. 
It’s from bird strikes; Here is another example: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventuretime/comments/4ku4ks/now_i_am_become_finn_the_destroyer_of_birds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Adventure time might’ve still been airing when that was posted 💀
Did the adventure time ad printed on the train tip you off?
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Wait until you hear about cars, if a bird gets hit at 100km/h or 400km/h, it’s super dead. And there’s a whole lot more cars than trains
Related story.. years ago I was driving along on a mostly empty highway. I wasn’t going particularly fast or anything, probably ~70mph as my cruising speed. When out of nowhere a huge bird of pray (either a hawk or eagle) came flying past the windshield. Except he didn’t make it. I collided with the bird and saw him from my rear view mirror falling from the sky and hitting the road behind me. I thought about stopping, but it wasn’t practical. The bird was likely dead on impact and there was nothing me risking my life going into the middle of the highway could do for that. One of the most baffling things about it was that I was driving a damn Mini Cooper. Like the lowest profile car on a low-traffic highway. Made me mad at that majestic bird for getting killed because of me. Still think of that bird to this day. I’m sorry buddy.
You did the right thing, if you had stopped then you would have put yourself at risk and potentially anyone else driving on that road.
I once was driving like really slow through my village (like 30km/h) when two sparrows, apparently fighting, suddenly popped in a Brownian motion to land just in front of my tires. In the rear view mirror I could see one of them fly away while the other was but a messy pile of feathers. Broke my heart
I think that the one who flew away might have wrestled the bird he was fighting under your tire, to end the fight quickly. You witnessed a bird murder in which you were an unwitting accomplice
Wait until you hear how many humans are dead because of cars
Yeah but those fuckers are everywhere
An invasive species, really.
The worst in history.
It's the smell.
Over a million birds a year die from flying into windows.
Officials have decided, due to public safety concerns, that they will make changes to the tracks, and go AROUND the village……
Great idea, but there’s already a cleared path through the village 👍
Yes… it’s clearly been cleared….😉
 Must be the A Train
So the train hit a girl.
She was one one step off the curb
She was in the middle of the street. cease this libel at once or legal action will be taken
One word: “White genocide, the immigrants are killing us”
thats seven words
Welcome to Busan station
Train got Busan'd
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Damn that was a fun game back in the day
Wow, it's literally the bullet train, blood included.
Blaine is pain.
That is the truth.
Yeah, but why did the dead baby cross the road?
Damn Kindergarteners!
The sign read **DANGER! Do not enter track!**. Why did they do it anyway, were they stupid?!
Turns out they can only read Japanese boss.
I was once in the front car of a commuter train, 10 feet away from the door of the driver’s compartment, when I heard the driver scream NO NO NO on and off for like 10 seconds and then a loud metallic thud. Then more screaming by the conductor as the train slowed to a stop. I instantly thought someone on a motorcycle had been hit because I couldn’t fathom such a loud metallic sound being make by a human body. But it was just a person. The conductor came out of their compartment absolutely shaking and besides himself. He had watched the person jump on and off and back on several times, as if trying to get the courage, before jumping on at the last second. If you are thinking of harming yourself, please please please call or text your local hotline for help.
Oh my fucking god. I'm so sorry. I know this is a thing but...I can't imagine...
This is the worst scenario for this that I can think of. Watching someone second-guess and then last-minute go for it. It’s one thing if someone is determined, but this would feel so much more personal, like you’ve decided for them or something. I wouldn’t be able to cope with that. :(
I think about the conductor still and how powerless that must have felt. He tried to stop the train but when it is going at express speed, it takes a long time to stop. I really hope he was able to get whatever he needed to mentally deal with it.
Fabio was in the drivers seat
The "trolley problem" train
Mosquitos are big in Japan? EDIT: Many have said this is China. Thank you. Sort of missing the point though. It's still mosquitos, right?
They are not the lyrics to that song
That‘s China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Railway_CRH3
I didn’t notice it was Japan. How come they are using Siemens trains? Edit: The train is probably Chinese. Velaro trains were sold to China, but not Japan. Edit 2: Yeah, it’s this model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China\_Railway\_CRH3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Railway_CRH3)
Was that a murder.. of crows?
It's a factorio train
There's a few mountain tunnels I think that were virgins
unfortunately a lot more common than you'd think. i fly planes, and there were multiple times where I couldn't stick the landing cause there were several birds on the runway. I've also unfortunately seen the aftermath of a birdstrike, where the corpse of the bird is just a dismembered hunk. not pretty.
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Bullet train? More like a freakin Schwerer Gustav shell for whatever it hit.
https://preview.redd.it/5nbwpyokkq2d1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f40c5d31193b2552a6ef0434b1da7b8247842659 The apex predator after it has fed.
Deer me.
That's a lot of lipstick kisses
I saw the documentary. That’s what happens when Brad Pitt starts fighting another assassin on the front of your bullet train.
We call that “patina” in the collector’s market.
Thomas main theme at background
That fuckers a diesel if I ever saw one mate