Attempted Suicide near Cambridge

[455driver]

I missed replying to this bit, apologies.

Woah. This post must have taken a lot of balls to write.

Not really, its part of my life and is probably a big part of making me the cantankerous twit I am today, before the divorce I was very 'soft' but after the incident I really toughened up and wont tolerate cow manure anymore, okay I will let a little bit go but once I detect that somebody is taking the wee wee (whether that is at home, down the pud, in the street, on here etc etc) I will dive in with both feet (as I am sure most of you have noticed ), sometimes its the right thing to do but sometimes (with hindsight) I can see that I overdid it a bit and look of a wally.

It also made me realise that I am a decent person with a lot to give and really helped me push myself to attain what I was capable of, hence now being a train driver instead of in a hum drum job I dont enjoy.

 

[ralphchadkirk]

We don't need inflatable bouncy castles on railway lines, or tazering people, we just need a mental health system that works, and that people have confidence in.

 

[wensley]

We don't need inflatable bouncy castles on railway lines, or tazering people, we just need a mental health system that works, and that people have confidence in.

And while we wait for such an effective system, how do you propose these individuals (who are clearly in need of professional help) should be dealt with? There has to be a point where the decision is taken not to allow them to disrupt the rest of the travelling public and all the staff who invariable get dragged into such incidents.

 

[Dieseldriver]

We don't need inflatable bouncy castles on railway lines, or tazering people, we just need a mental health system that works, and that people have confidence in.

'Like'

 

[JGR]

If it was easy to rig up a "bouncy castle" system at a moment's notice on a railway line, sufficient to prevent excess injuries caused by a fall from a bridge height, then I might agree with the concept.
However, by the time you've found someone to drive the bouncy castle from the depot or wherever potentially dozens of miles away, get access to the track for all the relevant staff, start blowing it up (without puncturing it on bits of railway furniture or damaging existing infrastructure), tazer the person, hope the bouncy castle saves them, extract them, deflate the castle, pack it up, move everyone off the line, and resume business as usual, the police negotiation would probably be long since done and finished.

 

[Zoidberg]

If it was easy to rig up a "bouncy castle" system at a moment's notice on a railway line, sufficient to prevent excess injuries caused by a fall from a bridge height, then I might agree with the concept.
However, by the time you've found someone to drive the bouncy castle from the depot or wherever potentially dozens of miles away, get access to the track for all the relevant staff, start blowing it up (without puncturing it on bits of railway furniture or damaging existing infrastructure), tazer the person, hope the bouncy castle saves them, extract them, deflate the castle, pack it up, move everyone off the line, and resume business as usual, the police negotiation would probably be long since done and finished.

Best just forget the bouncy castle bit, then. Oh, but not the need for the authorities to pro-actively remove the nuisance rather than procrastinate the way that they do at the moment, with the resulting delays and considerable inconvenience to innocent parties.

 

[Silv1983]

I tried to kill myself about two years ago by jumping off a bridge.

I wasn't doing it for attention at all. In fact no one even noticed I was there.

To this day I have no idea why I didn't jump.

Sorry, but you didn't "try" to kill yourself by jumping off a bridge in this instance. You merely went somewhere and pondered jumping off a bridge. There's a big difference and it puts you in another league from those unfortunates who actually jump, swallow pills or slash their wrists etc and survive.

I'm not trying to sound critical but in a previous life I quickly learnt the difference and became intolerant of those who make this kind of proclamation.

 

[Nym]

I suppose everyone was just stood there 'talking' the person down, just tazer the twit and get things back to normal, if they were going to jump they would have done it already.

This namby pamby culture is ridiculous.

Here here...

Have had situations with someone threatening to overdose and making a fuss about it, gave them a glass of water and told them to shut up and get on with it then... (Needless to say they are still alive...)

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Some people do it to seek attention, some do it because they genuinely want to kill themselves.

Attention seeking is not a bad thing in these cases. Often it's the only way to actually start getting support for MH conditions. I've been to people who have taken overdoses, not to kill themselves, but to get them into a MH hospital for the treatment they need.

If we had a proper MH system, then we would see far less attempts than we do now.

 

[TOCDriver]

Sorry, but you didn't "try" to kill yourself by jumping off a bridge in this instance. You merely went somewhere and pondered jumping off a bridge. There's a big difference and it puts you in another league from those unfortunates who actually jump, swallow pills or slash their wrists etc and survive.

I'm not trying to sound critical but in a previous life I quickly learnt the difference and became intolerant of those who make this kind of proclamation.

Agreed. If you had tried, you would have jumped and would have ended up still alive with a broken pelvis.