Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Man attempts suicide by lying on tracks at Harringay
In the second local 'person and train' incident this week, a man lay on the tracks at Harringay station on Wednesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to end his life. He was only saved after the train driver managed to hit the emergency brake just in time.
Two other FCC drivers - travelling as passengers on the train - helped the man up onto the platform.
One of them sat with the 48-year-old, from Leytonstone, until British Transport Police and the London Ambulance Service arrived.
The man was then detained under the Mental Health Act and taken to hospital for assessment.
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Permalink Reply by 1cg4k1mqrkrw0 on
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I use this station all the time! Terrible to think what this man must have been thinking to even contemplate this.
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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Just a little selfish though, imagine the trauma inflicted on the poor driver and others nearby. Not to mention the travel distruptions. Surely there are better ways if you absolutely feel you have to...
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Permalink Reply by Cat on
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If you think anything about suicide is selfish, you've evidently never been in that place. It's a pretty dark time.
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Don't jump to conclusions about me, Nia C, that's all I want to say.And yes, in all it's misery it is incredibly selfish.
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To each their own! Now, if only we took mental health as seriously as physical health people might actually be able to receive the help they need. Such a shame.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I was on the train when the driver pulled up just in time. After a few minutes we pulled in to the station and we were let off. The guy was on the platform with a man, who I assume was one of the staff members who were reported to be travelling on the train at the time. The poor guy was a wreck, sobbing. There was nothing selfish about his actions.
Today something similar happened where I work in Kings Cross. I was out having a fag when a blind woman stepped straight out into the traffic in Euston Road. A taxi stopped just inches in front of her. The driver got out and a couple of us went over to help her back to the pavement. The taxi driver asked her where he could take her and she said she just wanted to be run over and die. A couple of police officers were nearby and came to take over. What struck me was her absolutely calmness and sense of purpose. She simply stood in the middle of the road waiting to be killed. Not selfish but completely despairing.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Michael I feel inclined to agree with Anette, about the selfishness of such attempts. I think its possibly one of the most selfish actions imaginable, second only to the selfishness of choosing a partner to marry – and neither action is reprehensible.
The difficulty is that the word is normally used in a pejorative sense and I don't think Anette meant it in that way and I certainly don't. It's descriptive, not condemnatory.
I'm sorry that in popping out for a fag you had to witness the incident you described, it would be upsetting for any witness. The selfishness in this instance was the disregard for anyone around at the time; again, its a description, not a criticism, the woman deserves sympathy for the circumstances that led her to contemplate such an action.
Incidentally, can I encourage you to give up your fags? I'm afraid I regard that as a form of slow suicide and it can be selfish towards others around the nicotine user.
It shouldn't be forgotten that not all train or tube drivers manage to stop in time and that can be the least pleasant part of their job.
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Ha ha. This must be a wind up. Do you think someone about to commit suicide has a real connection with reality and a remark about smoking like that could only come from someone standing on very high moral ground. Must be hard to find time to advise the plebs while treating ones body like a temple.
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As Lev Tolstoy should have put it more succinctly:
Elfishly selfishly
Anna Karenina
(K)nightly romanticist
Cracked under strain:
Impetuosity
Severed her Nordically
Melodramatically
Under the train.
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Of course, as Keira stalkers may tell me, that should be (K)nightl(e)y.
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Yes it was horrific for the train driver but isn't the feeling that ones life is so unbearable even more so. Would me popping out for a coffee make it less reprehensible?
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Yes it was horrific for the train driver but isn't the feeling that ones life is so unbearable even more so.
Yes. It must also have been shocking for the others who witnessed the incident at the time, including the passengers and anyone on the platform.
Would me popping out for a coffee make it less reprehensible?
It was not a reprehensible action. Sad and regrettable – and deserving of sympathy. But Anette was also right in saying that, if you feel you have to, there are better ways of doing it (than laying on railway tracks).
Coffee would make a healthier choice for a work break; the NHS could help: [Stoptober].
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