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.

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[ehy2k.livejournal.com]

I work in Somerville, just outside of Porter Sq. A number of my employees were late to work because of delays on the Red Line. We had no idea and were cursing the lag in the schedule and the inconvinience of it all. It just makes you realize how interconnected we are, how one event spreads like waves from a pebble on a pond water's surface.

I am so sorry. This sort of thing is beyond my scope of language when coming to grips with it or trying to express feelings. Know that there are many of us who are there to support you and to mourn the insane loss of human life.