Really, if you're gonna kill yourself, just don't take anyone else with you.
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Cowardice and studpity set off a wave of heroism and selflessness.
I'm quite sure he'll be dead soon enough. If he doesn't get the whole suicide thing right before his trial, his prison stay will likely introduce him to a shiv before too long.
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I'm not thinking this guy deserves death, but someone's going to have to put up with "Hey aren't you that kid whose dad tried to kill himself but wound up killing all those people on the trains instead?" If that's not asking for a cycle of destruction, I don't know what is.
Also, forgive my morbid curiosity, but I kind want to know what kind of SUV it was.
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Yeah, I woke up to this today... not a good day to start the day. I called my friend since she takes Metrolink from Moorpark to Union Station... she wasn't on the train thank god.
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quote:Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said prosecutors filed charges late Wednesday for 10 counts of murder with "special circumstances" of committing murder through a train derailment. Cooley stressed however that the case were still being evaulated. Under state law, special circumstances allegations could make a defendant eligible for the death penalty.
And for Balaam's curiosity file:
quote:Alvarez, 25, got out of his green Jeep Cherokee....
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The story's been all over NPR, and talk of the death penalty has been thrown around. Given his reason for being on the tracks, he should have no objection.
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quote:Originally posted by Captain Boh: Because thats the kind of thinking that will improve the human race...
Exactly: this moron destroyed dozens of lives with his stupidity. Think about it: dozens in critical condition, at least eleven dead (so far) and still dozens more injured.
And for what? He was not really going to kill himself- he'd changed his mind but instead of driving his car off the tracks, he just walked away.... Either he's a complete moron or he wanted the train to derail for kicks.
He deserves at least life in prison....so he can think on what he did.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Either he's a complete moron or he wanted the train to derail for kicks.
Or he's increadibly unstable. alot of people who attempt suicide arn't exactly thinking rationally at the time. Unfortunatly, we don't know enough about the mind to really help people...
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So us taxpayers will feed and house his forevermore....
Imagine what this is doing to his own kid (aside from all the families with dead/injured family members).
Gonna be some therapy sessions in his future for certain.
I've personally only met two kinds of people that attaempt suicide: some that really do attempt to end their lives and some that do outlandishly stupid things to make others feel sorry for them.
I cant say which category this guy falls into from a news report though.
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Depending upon how close the train was when he changed his mind, if he had turned the car off, he may have had enough time to get away on foot, but not enough time to start the car and drive away.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: So us taxpayers will feed and house his forevermore....
I'm certanly not saying the present system is perfect. But I'm sure that if you were ever extreamly unstable you wouldn't mind a little 'help' from it.
I guess its like an insurrance policy. You pay into it, but you hope like hell you never have to collect
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Actually, it's never occured to me that I may go nuts, get a lot of people killed and go to jail...
Okay, that's not precisely true:
It's never occured to me that I may go nuts, get a lot of innocent people killed and go to jail...not when there's snipers on rooftops anyway.
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