Another Jumper at Hassocks !!

[bhaexpress]

Also got a text from Virgos haircut. He works for Southern and always texts me when some one has jumped (god knows why!)

Perhaps he's trying to jump you ?

 

[Marc]

 

[Parson Henry]

Nice colour. Looks itchy though!

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

Perhaps he's trying to jump you ?

Get away!!

 

[bhaexpress]

Get away!!

For a have it Awayday ?

 

[Hadlee]

Its alright for you BB ! living in Croydon

Now I've gotta try & get home

 

[JJ McClure]

Unconfirmed, but whilst in Hassocks lastnight I heard that this may well have been a slipper rather than a jumper.

 

[bhaexpress]

This is what the Argus said.

Accident

 

[JJ McClure]

This is what the Argus said.

Accident

Fair enough. Quite glad I heard wrong in that case.

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

This is what the Argus said.

Accident

Man leaps in front of speeding train

by Charles Whitney

SCHOOLchildren gasped in horror at the remains of a man who jumped in front a high-speed train.

It is believed the man leapt from from Hassocks railway station in torrential rain at around 3pm yesterday just as the London to Brighton service was passing through at 80mph.

It is thought up to 15 people could have been on the platform at the time and several children making their way home from school arrived immediately afterwards.

A 13-year-old boy walking home with a friend told his father he had seen the body on the track and a woman who had been in a cafÈ near the station reported seeing an arm sticking out from under the train.

Photographer Barry Page, of Station Approach, Hassocks, lives 150 yards from the station said: "It happened just before the schoolchildren would have arrived so the station was quiet with 10 to 15 commuters there.

"The police blocked off the road with a car and then taped off the station.

"There was a suicide here about two weeks ago where a person jumped off a road bridge on to the line. Usually, if it's going to happen, it happens at a bridge further up the line."

The body has not yet been identified and police said yesterday there were no suspicious circumstances.

The 2.06pm service from London Victoria to Brighton had been travelling more slowly than usual because of the heavy rain but was not scheduled to stop at Hassocks.

A Southern Railways manager came to look after the driver and the train was taken to a depot in Brighton after it had been declared safe to travel.

The line was reopened by 4.30pm but there were delays all evening on the route.

 

[Superseagull]

Why do it in front of all those kids

 

[bhaexpress]

Why do it in front of all those kids

Quote so but there are still people who reckon that particular form of suicide is not a selfish act. I don't buy heavily into the 'mind is disturbed and so they don't stop to consider their actions' theory. To get to the station and then stand on the platform waiting to jump is a premeditated act not a spur of the moment decision.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Quote so but there are still people who reckon that particular form of suicide is not a selfish act. I don't buy heavily into the 'mind is disturbed and so they don't stop to consider their actions' theory. To get to the station and then stand on the platform waiting to jump is a premeditated act not a spur of the moment decision.

How can they think its not selfish? It clearly is!

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Yep, if he'd shown more consideration, then he could have prewarned Photographer Barry Page, of Station Approach, Hassocks, who lives 150 yards from the station, and he wouldn't have had to run to have a look or get his camera ready so that he could take photos and tout them around the newsagencies.

Also a woman who had been in a cafÈ near the station and reported seeing an arm sticking out from under the train could have left her coffee and sandwich to get there in time, rather than having her lunch disrupted.

And the schoolchildren could have gasped in horror at the remains of a man who jumped in front a high-speed train if they had arrived earlier and not arrived immediately afterwards, as they quite clearly were not on the platform when he did it.

Yep, selfish bastard.

 

[bhaexpress]

Glad you finally admit it.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

School children gasped in horror at the remains of a man who jumped in front a high-speed train

I'm not surprised. But I am surprised that his remains remained lively enough to jump anywhere.