Apparently I missed this article when it first appeared last month, but now its being reproduced as a masterpiece. The Trib's transportation writer (Hilkevitch) wrote a long-ass article about suicide by commuter train. As an aside, this guy has certainly found his niche... he does an awesome job writing about Chicago's transporation issues. Anyhoo:
http://www.ble.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=10929
Whudda thunk that there have been more than 450 Chicago area train fatalities since 1990 or something like that. And that 1/2 or more of them are suicides.
Or that the mirrors on Tokyo train platforms are for suicidal Japanese commuters to face themselves in the mirror one last time before they ruin the day for thousands of others by jumping in front of a train.
Kind of a random article, but maybe it will help one of you to convince your kids not to walk on or near tracks.
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