Ancient
It just had to happen; another old geezer thought that he should go off with a bang, literally…inconveniencing much of the north MRT line when he decided to launch himself off Bishan MRT station at noon. Banging head first with a 13-tonne metal object isn’t my idea of a painless death.
I’m going to rule out accident here, the gush of air being sucked into the tracks while a train is coming in isn’t even strong enough to suck a child left alone an old man, and those knobs on the floor for the blind, well …you don’t see blind people falling into train tracks everyday do you?
The most probable scenario is the senior citizen committed suicide. For what reasons I don’t really care. We can’t stop people from killing themselves, but at least we can make it difficult to. The old man is already number 4, 3 of which happened at Bishan itself, the other at some station in the west.
What do they have all in common? Let’s examine the evidence we got so far. They are all in open-air stations; the jumpers were all above the age of 40 and somehow managed to avoid detection by ground staff and had the best possible timing of being creamed by trains within the shortest period of track time, before anyone could save them.
While probably some big heads are going to roll in SMRT, and corporate tai-ji quan is going to be displayed, I am dismayed to see SMRT employing substandard and primitive forms of ensuring safety in their stations.
What’s the point of installing video cams when all your staff can do is look at the old geezer fall into the tracks and within 3 seconds he gets run over by 40+ odd wheels carrying a total weight of 100+-tonnes.
Its plain stupid, ludicrous and downright a waste of funds. I would rather spend a couple more millions install automated doors at all stations that way the old way some old jabroni is going to kiss the train is when his seated inside it.
I’m going to rule out accident here, the gush of air being sucked into the tracks while a train is coming in isn’t even strong enough to suck a child left alone an old man, and those knobs on the floor for the blind, well …you don’t see blind people falling into train tracks everyday do you?
The most probable scenario is the senior citizen committed suicide. For what reasons I don’t really care. We can’t stop people from killing themselves, but at least we can make it difficult to. The old man is already number 4, 3 of which happened at Bishan itself, the other at some station in the west.
What do they have all in common? Let’s examine the evidence we got so far. They are all in open-air stations; the jumpers were all above the age of 40 and somehow managed to avoid detection by ground staff and had the best possible timing of being creamed by trains within the shortest period of track time, before anyone could save them.
While probably some big heads are going to roll in SMRT, and corporate tai-ji quan is going to be displayed, I am dismayed to see SMRT employing substandard and primitive forms of ensuring safety in their stations.
What’s the point of installing video cams when all your staff can do is look at the old geezer fall into the tracks and within 3 seconds he gets run over by 40+ odd wheels carrying a total weight of 100+-tonnes.
Its plain stupid, ludicrous and downright a waste of funds. I would rather spend a couple more millions install automated doors at all stations that way the old way some old jabroni is going to kiss the train is when his seated inside it.
posted by Jecht at 10:10 AM
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