Yes it is a shame that saying what everyone else is thinking is considered a punishable offence in positions of authority. It should be in everyone's best interests to point out utter stupidity in situations like this.
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Train Alert - Person Hit by Train at Portslade
- Thread starter HawkTheSeagull
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Yes it is a shame that saying what everyone else is thinking is considered a punishable offence in positions of authority. It should be in everyone's best interests to point out utter stupidity in situations like this.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Unfortunately, no amount of official advice from a spokesperson is going to male a blind bit of difference to someone who is enough of a complete WEAPON to cross a railway track.
But I know they have to trot it out.
But I know they have to trot it out.
father_and_son
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The comments regarding the advice does put me in mind of my favourite scene from The Young Ones... Vivian has just pushed a hippy into the fridge and shut the door. Cue compulsory warning message re don't try this at home... "The BBC would like to warn small children that pushing people into refrigerators is a bloody stupid thing to do". Fantastic!
The Andy Naylor Fan Club
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glasfryn
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What a f***ing IMBECILE
Southern should SUE him
Southern should SUE him
Nottseagull
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And so they should. I remember reading many years ago of a case where children locked a kid in a fly-tipped fridge for a prank and went away, meaning to return later and release him. Obviously they didn't realize how airtight the things are designed to be, and the poor kid died, probably within a few minutes.
TheJasperCo
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Without wanting to stereotype all people who wear white trackies in public, but do you think he's got enough money on him to make a lawsuit worthwhile?
I agree though that he is a right lemon-munching thunder-dunce.
father_and_son
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I'm now confused... White trackies in private would be ok??
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Heard he has died but uncomfirmed sauce
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Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Yep, he died. Top story on the Argus website.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Very sad. Perhaps this thread should be locked.
Ninja Elephant
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- Feb 16, 2009
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World class.
RIP to the fella though, however much of a plum he was in causing his own death, it's still extremely sad for the family, his friends and the train driver. To be fair, I most feel for the train driver who will never forget this and it's not his fault at ALL. Very sad story.
How do you mean?
HawkTheSeagull
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They didn't commit suicide - they tried walking over the tracks but was caught between the train and platform.
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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If you mean suicide, I never get this attitude. If someone is that desperate that they are willing to take their own life, they won't make the link between what they are doing and how it will affect commuters, or people needing to get somewhere on a train.
However, in this case, it wasn't suicide, it was a terrible misjudgement, but the sounds of it. RIP man.
Randsta
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I would think more the scene when they are on a train and Vivian reads "Do not stick your head out the window" ..."I wonder why?" sticking his head out to get it chopped off by a passing train...classic!