Narita Express Suicide

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]A middle-aged woman committed suicide today by throwing herself at a moving Narita Express. She did so from Shin Koiwa Station. The aftermath was unpleasant as the impact sent her into a platform kiosk and 4 bystanders were hit and sustained minor injuries. Police have little doubt that the woman intended to kill herself: the platform is for the exclusive use of non-stopping express trains. The incident cause a brief stoppage on the line but services restarted while officers dealt with the aftermath at the station.

Source (Japanese)

[matsuki]

Fucking selfish bitch...

To quote South Park

"The only thing Japanese like killing more than Chinese is killing themselves!"

[cujojpn]

[YT]TNLj70DZh9I[/YT]

Yikes, N'EX flies through that station.
The bitch even managed to destroy a storefront on the station platform.

[xenomorph42]

I don't know what's going on in this country, yeah, people have been offing themselves for a long time nothing new, but recently, it seems like it's getting worse.
About a week ago in Fukuoka, I was on a Nishitetsu line heading towards Tenjin downtown going about 100km on the Express line. The train was packed, the weather cloudy and ironically, I happened to be sitting in the first car behind the train operator, just enjoying the scenic route and all of a sudden, out of my left blind spot, I saw a quick blur of a guy jumping on the tracks as if he wanted to stop the train. The whole incident lasted 1 second and I just saw his left arm hit the windshield and he was of course, subsequently, he was pulled under and you could hear his body being chopped up and it was a seriously messy site. Stuck and hot and sitting at an angle for about an hour and 20 min. Waiting for the cops and the crime police to come. When the operator announced that they had ran over someone. For a second, people gasped and the next, everyone took out their cell phones, called and acted as if the incident never happened. Because this happens so often, people have become to desensitized over it. Personally, when you witness something like that, it's a really fucked up thing. If you are going to kill yourself, does it have to involve hundreds of people commuting to work or for fun???
Gas yourself, swallow cyanide pills, whatever, but as to why Japanese often choose this way of suicide beats me. These people are so selfish that they have to hinder innocent people from their daily routine.
I also heard that when you kill yourself like that, they go to your family and you have to pay damages if your kin kills him/herself. Don't know how much truth is in that, if anyone has any ideas, please clarify.

[Typhoon]

I don't know what's going on in this country, yeah, people have been offing themselves for a long time nothing new, but recently, it seems like it's getting worse.
About a week ago in Fukuoka, I was on a Nishitetsu line heading towards Tenjin downtown going about 100km on the Express line. The train was packed, the weather cloudy and ironically, I happened to be sitting in the first car behind the train operator, just enjoying the scenic route and all of a sudden, out of my left blind spot, I saw a quick blur of a guy jumping on the tracks as if he wanted to stop the train. The whole incident lasted 1 second and I just saw his left arm hit the windshield and he was of course, subsequently, he was pulled under and you could hear his body being chopped up and it was a seriously messy site. Stuck and hot and sitting at an angle for about an hour and 20 min. Waiting for the cops and the crime police to come. When the operator announced that they had ran over someone. For a second, people gasped and the next, everyone took out their cell phones, called and acted as if the incident never happened. Because this happens so often, people have become to desensitized over it. Personally, when you witness something like that, it's a really fucked up thing. If you are going to kill yourself, does it have to involve hundreds of people commuting to work or for fun???
Gas yourself, swallow cyanide pills, whatever, but as to why Japanese often choose this way of suicide beats me. These people are so selfish that they have to hinder innocent people from their daily routine.
I also heard that when you kill yourself like that, they go to your family and you have to pay damages if your kin kills him/herself. Don't know how much truth is in that, if anyone has any ideas, please clarify.

A final act to get missing attention?

[Yokohammer]

People who kill themselves aren't thinking properly (in most cases).
They kill themselves because they aren't thinking properly.
Can't really expect people to commit suicide in a rational manner.

[Hikonejou]

I read that Freezing Yourself To Death is actually the best way to go. And there's a good chance that somone might thaw you out 500 Years from now or something like that...

[xenomorph42]

People who kill themselves aren't thinking properly (in most cases).
They kill themselves because they aren't thinking properly.
Can't really expect people to commit suicide in a rational manner.

People who kill themselves aren't thinking properly
Not thinking properly happens a lot in Japan.

They kill themselves because they aren't thinking properly.
Not thinking properly happens a lot in Japan.

Can't really expect people to commit suicide in a rational manner.
No, I really don't. After living here for 12 years, you are right about that, I can't rationalize Japanese thinking.

[Yokohammer]

Here's a list of countries by suicide rate (suicides per 100,000 people per year):

List of countries by suicide rate

No.1 is Lithuania, and No. 2 is South Korea.
Japan is No. 5 (damn ... can't be no. 1 at anything anymore).

The U.S. is 39, Australia 45, and the U.K 49.

Hey Coligny ... France is 16th! You guys are going to have to try harder!

[xenomorph42]

Here's a list of countries by suicide rate (suicides per 100,000 people per year):

List of countries by suicide rate

No.1 is Lithuania, and No. 2 is South Korea.
Japan is No. 5 (damn ... can't be no. 1 at anything anymore).

The U.S. is 39, Australia 45, and the U.K 49.

Hey Coligny ... France is 16th! You guys are going to have to try harder!

It depends on how the stats are broken down. For young women, Japan is still number 1 at the top, for men, I think it's around number 10, but you have to add age and you start to see some totally different stats.

[matsuki]

I also heard that when you kill yourself like that, they go to your family and you have to pay damages if your kin kills him/herself. Don't know how much truth is in that, if anyone has any ideas, please clarify.

I've heard this as well but also heard others say it's BS. It's probably a pressure tactic rather than an actual law.

One of my friends that lived in a giant mansion complex at the end of a train line told me that as he was growing up there, there was nearly a suicide each month. Drunk people would ride the train to the last stop, get forced off the train, wander from the station to the complex (pretty much the only thing there) and jump from one of the top stories. Unfortunately for him, he was the first person to discover the human splatter in the parking lot on more than one occasion. He said that many times after one of these incidents, a resident would soon follow

How many of you guys HAVEN'T seen, been delayed, or otherwise affected by suicides here?

[Mike Oxlong]

Apparently a dude offed himself today - same station, same line.

[Taro Toporific]

Apparently a dude offed himself today - same station, same line.

Mega-funky Google Translate babbles..

Trouble Train Accident
Shinkoiwa station continued to plunge again into Narita Express, men now
2011.7.13 15:31 sankei.jp.msn.com

Around 1:15 Friday afternoon at the JR station Shinkoiwa Sobu Shinkoiwa Katsushika-ku, Tokyo jumped on the man from the home line, passing through the station in the same express train "Narita Express" died after being hit on . The passengers were not injured.

According to the MPD Katsushika, men aged 50 to 60 are in a hurry to try and suicide identification.

According to the East JR, and suspended a total of 18 vertical lines in the accident, out of a maximum delay of 54 minutes total to 23, affected about 19,000 people a passenger.

In the same home as the station on June 12, jumped to the Narita Express in women aged 45 to pass through living in Edogawa, and death by up splattered on the home shop, men were slightly injured four people in the store, etc. just bear the accident.

Original Japanese http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/110713/dst11071314210011-n1.htm

[matsuki]

Maybe we should change the title of this thread to "Japanese suicide express!"

[Ganma]

Mega-funky Google Translate babbles..

I cleaned it up a bit:

Another Nairita Express Suicide at Shinkowa Station, this time a man

Around 1:15 Friday afternoon at Shinkoiwa Sobu Shinkoiwa JR station Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, a man was killed jumping from the platform in front of an oncoming Narita Express train. No passengers were injured. According to the Katsushika MPD, the as yet unidentified man was in his fifties. The case is being treated as a suicide.
According to the East JR Rail the accident led to the cancelation of 18 trains and caused 23 trains to be held up for up to 54 minutes, inconveniencing approximately 19,000 people.
On the 12th, on exactly the same station platform, a 45 year old female resident of Edogawa ward was also hit and killed by a Narita Express train passing through the station when she jumped in front of the train. Her body was flung back onto the platform into a kiosk slightly injuring 4 people.

[Coligny]

I cleaned it up a bit:

hope you didn't put too much blood on your clothes...

[Typhoon]

Looks like it's time to switch to the Keisei Skyliner . . .

[Mulboyne]

Looks like it's time to switch to the Keisei Skyliner . . .

For which purpose?

[Samurai_Jerk]

For which purpose?

Ha! Good one!

[Typhoon]

For which purpose?

Take the train, then a plane.

What purpose do you have in mind?

[matsuki]

Take the train, then a plane.

What purpose do you have in mind?

That went right over your head

[Catoneinutica]

[quote="chokonen888"]That went right over your head ]

I think the 40-to-50-year-old woman's head went right into the door of the mini-combini. And I think Typhoon was going droll-for-droll with Mulboyne.

-catone
-Japan's brain's been shattered! Splattered all over...Shin-Koiwa.

[Coligny]

Hey Coligny ... France is 16th! You guys are going to have to try harder!

The good thing with having a failure at life like Sarkozy as a president is that usually... It's not yourself you want to kill when you're down on your luck...

The guy should really avoid going out in the streets near people... He got a close call last month... next time will certainly be much closer...

[Typhoon]

I think the 40-to-50-year-old woman's head went right into the door of the mini-combini. And I think Typhoon was going droll-for-droll with Mulboyne.

Quite.

[Taro Toporific]

[dimwit]

Damn, now there is a video game asking to be made.

[Dreamy_Peach]

was traveling 100 to 120 km per hour (62-75 mph)

I wish that train would go faster.

[Taro Toporific]

...was traveling 100 to 120 km per hour (62-75 mph) when it hit...

I wish that train would go faster.

Actually, the N'EX hits a top speed of 130km/h* but it "slows down" while going through stations to allow more people to jump in front of it.

[IparryU]

[Doctor Stop]

Actually, the N'EX hits a top speed of 130km/h* but it "slows down" while going through stations to allow more people to jump in front of it.

I remember reading somewhere that it goes much, much slower than it was originally designed for because of complaints by airport bus companies whose businesses would have been destroyed if the N'EX was got people to the airport too much quicker than the buses.