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The worst year ever for Metro just keeps getting worse. WMATA just issued an alert that a person may have been struck by a train at the Van Ness station on the Red line. Trains are single tracking between Cleveland Park and Friendship Heights until further notice. Plan your commutes accordingly via bus or an extra long happy hour tonight. There's no information yet about the condition of the person who may have fallen on the tracks. UPDATE: Not that this should be a surprise to anyone, but AlertDC is warning us that there are also major delays on Connecticut Avenue NW due to the situation.
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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!@#$%^RED&*¾ÿæ¥LINE!!!!!1
I hate to blame the victim, but is it WMATA's fault that people fall on the tracks? How do you prevent delays when someone falls on the tracks? Is there anything they can do to prevent this?
Ha ha. Just kidding! I love to blame the victim.
WMATA needs suicide prevention doors. The only problem is that these require that trains stop in the same location every time.
No. A thousand times NO!
The worst year ever for Metro...so far.
Are you saying if absolutely nothing happened for the rest of the year - no deaths, no delays, no awkwardly pathetic quotes from press conferences - Metro might be able to spin this as their best year ever based on average system problems?
Go watch the Simpsons movie.
I'm hearing reports on Twitter (from I presume a witness...although double checking) that the man "threw himself" on to the tracks. Can you really blame the driver for what is most likely a suicide attempt?
yes.
This is where Tom Cruise needs to get on board with precrime.
I doubt Tom Cruise can fit it into his schedule. He's too busy forcing his wife to dance like Judy Garland. There's also all that buttsecks he's not having.
Tommy Boy's getting plenty of buttsecks...just not with Katie.
Don't believe the hype ladies - you can't get preggers from precrime.
You may not get preggers from precrime, but it is a bitch to wash out of your sheets.
Or hair.
I read "precum" at first.
WMATA wouldn't have this problem if they'd just install thos crab-infested Thurston Hall mattresses on the front of their trains.
Thrustin' Hall!? Giggity Giggity! OH!
Seriously though, what a friggin zoo.
Do you really blame Red Line riders for committing suicide?
Let's just respect the jumper's wishes and keep on, keeping on with our commute. Drive on, dear driver, drive on...it's why Jebus invented those windshield wipers. Plenty of time to clean up at the end of the line.
Can you really blame the driver
I don't think anyone did...
Doesn't seem like anyone's blaming the driver. But that doens't mean it doesn't still suck.
Profound, I know.
Mabybe it's time for a suicide prevention hotline phone to be added to Metro stations? Or some Prozac vending machines?
If that fails, these would prevent delays: http://tinyurl.com/lb964z
they don't call it the RED line for nothing...
did molly push her abductor off the platform?
Molly has gone away.
She's drifted out to sea.
Just like the one in our backyard.
Ia! Ia! Red line demands sacrifice!
Come on... if someone wants to die, there are wayyyy less annoying ways. Unless that's what he was going for, the effect on tons of people.