Suicide attempt at Davis Square T, just after noon.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

At 12:10 this afternoon, I saw a man jump in front of the incoming train at the Davis Square T stop.

He landed on the tracks about three-quarters of a second before the train passed over him. I saw him lie flat and align himself in the direction of the tracks, and pull his arms in. There's a slim chance the train passed over him and he's still alive. I don't know what the vertical clearance on those things is. At first I thought it was somebody pulling some sort of "Jackass" style graduation stunt, until I talked with the woman who was sitting next to him on the platform, who reported he was getting more and more agitated as they waited.

The area is full of emergency vehicles now, and I think that's a news copter circling.
Expect delays in red line service.

Comments

[ceo]

Yipes! I'm pretty sure there isn't enough clearance under the train for him to have made it.

And on Harvard Commencement day too. Havard Square's going to be all kinds of amusing this afternoon. Nothing on the local news sites yet.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

It's possible there won't be anything on the local news sites, nor the newscasts tonight. The producers might want not to encourage copycats.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, I got stuck in a T snarl (and wound up walking home from downtown). When I checked the papers next day, the blurb was tiny and included the phrase: "non-life-threatening injuries to her buttocks" If they don't plan to report anything, why the news crews?

[julyana.livejournal.com]

Most likely.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

That was MY first thought. Way to pick a day to die...