Train Wreck - Democratic Underground

super simian

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Wed Jan-26-05 07:18 PM
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Train Wreck

Edited on Wed Jan-26-05 07:33 PM by super simian

I commute to Los Angeles on the Metrolink train everyday and this morning I uncharacteristically happened to turn on the television because I was up early and wanted to see the closing statements about the Condo-liar Rice appointment. It was about 6:15 and so there was nothing going on yet on C-Span and so and I decided to switch channels to find out about the rainstorm and instead I came across live coverage of the worst train disaster in Southern California history.

The story that played out over the morning (I couldn't get to work since I commute on that same train route) was about a 25-year-old man with a Hispanic surname who had decided to commit suicide by driving onto a train crossing and then maneuvering and parking his Jeep Cherokee on the train tracks.

Evidently, when he heard the train coming (it appears that he had already tried to slit his wrists) he decided he didn't want to die that way and -- finding that he was unable to move his car off the train tracks-- he abandonned it. The train hit the car and was subsequently derailed onto another track where it collided head on with a parked Union Pacific engine. As a result, the train buckled, or "jack-knifed" and part of it protruded into the northbound tracks where another train happened to be passing. This demolished one car of that train and split it off from the rear car which fell into a ravine onto its side.

In the meantime I tried to call a friend who lives near me to find out if I could carpool with her. She was already gone and her husband answered the phone. I told him to turn on the television but the train wreck was suddenly pre-empted by another (potentially even more) tragic train wreck event, that is Chimp congratulating himself that his SOS appointment had received congressional approval.

Of course the first impulse of the MSM was to try to look for ways that they could spin this as a terrorist attack. What could be more beneficial to their Leader than to put him in charge of being the First Responder (after listening to 7 minutes of My Pet Goat of course) to another heinous attack upon American Soil? But he knew nothing about it and cared less and only wanted to trumpet his sabotage of Democracy for the sake of Corporate interests.

The man who decided to commit suicide in this disgusting way and then abandon his car did not even have enough sense to flee the scene. Instead he was apprehended wandering amidst the carnage saying that he was sorry. He is now in the custody of the Glendale police and will probably be charged with ten counts of murder. Having nothing better to do since I could not get to work and feeling a strong affinity for the victims of this disaster, I watched about five hours of coverage. As of now it does not seem that they will be able to attribute this tragedy to "the terrorists." They would love for it to be part of a larger story about how we need Chimp to be our savior.

As of now at least ten people are dead. Scores of others have been seriously injured. It could have been much worse if it had not been for our amazingly well prepared emergency responders. Hundreds of them were on the job in minutes putting out fires and dragging bodies out of the carnage,

This just in from super simian.