Linda ([info]peachette19) wrote in [info]damnportlanders,
@ 2008-01-18 13:02:00
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Wow. Watch out peoples!
I work by the square and I heard the MAX honk their horn real loud, then announce that everyone had to stay on the train. It was stopped halfway into the intersection. Then we hear sirens, like 5 fire trucks, an ambulence, police, and Trimet officials also arrived to save the day. So we run to our window to investigate the unfolding events. What type of emergency would require so many vehicles but force people to stay on? Anyway, our conclusion was that a car ran into the front of the MAX. After seeing the banged up car a block up the street. Maybe this happens all the time, I've never seen it. It dislodged the MAX from it's light rail ... cable thing (don't know technical terms. haha).

Oh, people. I am going to miss working right at the square and having a front row view of all the action!

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[info]lemurmaster
2008-01-18 10:21 pm UTC (link)
Something like that happened to me once while I was on the Streetcar. A SUV made a right turn directly INTO the side of the Streetcar, and it hit right where below where I was sitting.
I was totally dumbfounded. I mean, how do you not see a train and drive into it? I might be more understanding if you got trapped on the track, and the train hit you, or if you misjudged the trains width, and got your mirror clipped or something.
But to turn directly INTO the train. Egads...

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[info]dave256
2008-01-19 04:01 am UTC (link)
Just think of all the extra fun on 5th and 6th come next year!

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[info]qousqous
2008-01-19 05:10 am UTC (link)
catenary

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[info]madscience
2008-01-19 09:57 am UTC (link)
My second day in Portland, some dude tried to kill himself by jumping in front of the MAX I was on as it pulled into Pioneer Square. We couldn't get off the train until the police arrived and decided whether or not we had all been witnesses to a crime.

In case you're wondering, the dude lived. Seriously, what kind of loser do you have to be to fail at killing yourself with a fucking train?

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[info]skittle5
2008-01-20 05:33 pm UTC (link)
and what kind of a jerk do you have to be to make fun of someone who tried to kill themself

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[info]madscience
2008-01-22 09:31 am UTC (link)
You'll hear no apology from me. If someone wants to commit suicide, I think it's a bad decision, but it's entirely their own business. This guy, however, decided to end his life by making a public scene, potentially risking the lives and safety of others, and seriously inconveniencing thousands of people for several hours. Fuck him! I hope he enjoys his time in prison... or a state hospital, wherever they threw his worthless ass.

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[info]skittle5
2008-01-22 10:28 am UTC (link)
so having one person die is better than inconveniencing some people? you sure don't value life much

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[info]madscience
2008-01-22 10:40 am UTC (link)
That comment doesn't make much sense. Anyway, nobody died, which is what makes it even more pathetic. If somebody's going to endanger a bunch of other people and disrupt the public transportation network of a major metropolitan area in an attempt to kill himself, the least he could do is finish the job. Now he's probably wasting taxpayers' money rotting in some padded room somewhere.

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[info]skittle5
2008-01-22 11:25 am UTC (link)
so we should just execute anyone that gets depressed, eh?

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[info]madscience
2008-01-23 01:53 am UTC (link)
Again, your comment makes absolutely no sense. How in the world could you get that from what I wrote? All I'm saying is that anyone who risks other people's lives in their suicide attempt is an asshole and deserves whatever they get.

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