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- From: ctillier@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clemens Emmanuel Tillier)
- Subject: Re: bullet train death
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.233052.26035@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:30:52 GMT
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- Steve Bellovin writes:
- >I just saw a news story about the first bullet train death. Someone
- >ran across a field and onto the tracks, apparently with the intention
- >of committing suicide. The crew tried applying the emergency brakes,
- >but couldn't stop in time.
-
- Strange... At least in France, the high-speed ROW is flanked on both sides by
- a fence and a ditch, so that it would be impossible to "run across a field
- and onto the tracks"...
-
- On a slightly different note: the TGV-A that I rode this summer had a pigeon
- (more like an ex-pigeon) wedged in between the front coupler doors. *YUCK*.
-
- Clem <ctillier@phoenix.princeton.edu>
-