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[quietann]

Do not attempt to occupy a space that is about to be occupied by a moving train. The train will win, even if you get there first. And everyone on the train will be very unhappy and late to work.

(Context: the commuter train I was on this morning hit a person at the Reading stop. Someone saw them and pulled the emergency brake, but a moving train has a lot of momentum and takes a while to stop. 911 was called, the person (who I am pretty sure is dead) was removed, and after a delay of 15 minutes or so we continued on.)

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Aiee.

The other day I was on a trolley, sitting up at the front and looking forward, and someone ran out in front of it. Just as I thought I was about to find myself watching someone get hit by a trolley, the trolley missed the idiot by about a foot. Ergh.

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

eek.
I've been on a green line train that hit a car, but it more squished the car into a tight spot (one of those ditches, kinda), and nobody was injured.
Any idea if this was a jumper, or an accident?

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[quietann.livejournal.com]

From what I overheard from people who were waiting for the train, the person tried to cross the tracks at the last minute, in order to get to the proper side of the train for boarding.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

In Sunday's Boston Globe Starts&Stops column there was a complaint from someone who part of the mob waiting for trains after the Patriots victory parade.

By the time folks were allowed to board the train, "everyone from the back pushed forward, almost trampling those in the front, like myself and my sister, over. I am unable to comprehend their actions. It wasn't a secret that there was going to be a parade and that over a million people would be there, why were they so unprepared? Why could we not wait on the platform? . . . they nearly had a riot on their hands."

I suspect that if the MBTA allowed the mob of people on to the platforms, at least one person would have been pushed off the platform by the surging mob as a train came into the station.