The latest salaryman to trade one form of oblivion for another on the nation’s rails has horrified many with his spectacular plunge through the train’s window and straight into the arms of its doubtless even more horrified driver.
The incident occurred when an unidentified man leapt into the path of a oncoming limited express service at Oishi station on the Hanshin Electric Railway in Hyogo prefecture.
Unusually, rather than being dashed to pieces on impact or mangled underneath the train, he smashed straight through the driver’s side window with most of his body ending up inside the train.
The man was extricated from the train by a fire crew at the next station on and taken to hospital, but unsurprisingly his injuries proved fatal.
The unfortunate driver of the train sustained minor injuries from glass and the impact, although nothing is said about the psychological impact.
Passengers all escaped injury, saving the hour long delay inflicted on users of the express service and the obvious ghastliness of the spectacle – although judging by the photos of the scene at least one bystander (or “the sick pink fatty” as his online detractors have labelled him) found the scene highly edifying.
Suicide by train, a method very Japanese in both its fixation with the train and its passive-aggressiveness (although not very common, accounting for only 2.1% of suicides with straightforward hanging being by far the preferred method with 66.4%, unsurprisingly it is preferred by salarymen), continues to be a major problem for Japanese railways.
Euphemistically referred to as “traffic accidents resulting in injury” in station announcements, each year such attempts delay hundreds of thousands of commuters and subject train drivers to horrific trauma (to say nothing of anyone witnessing or forced to clean up “organs and chunks of flesh from an unrecognisably pulverised body spread 2-5km from the impact site in the case of high speed trains”), although fortunately none have yet turned into accidental murder-suicides taking out staff and passengers.
Measures to discourage such attempts include the famous example of the rail operators billing bereaved families for the disruption to services (in one case a family was even unsuccessfully sued by a woman who suffered PTSD after witnessing the incident).
Less controversially, suicide prevention gates on platforms are proving popular, as well as a variety of more subtle measures such as removing blind spots for jumpers to hide behind, installing mirrors facing the platform to force them to fully reflect on their course of action, adding train departure melodies and even “anti-suicide” blue lights.
Despite all this it would be hard to imagine Japanese train drivers envying their Chinese counterparts…
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Maybe the dude was just running late and tried to make an entrance through the windshield? I blame American action movies.
Looks like he didn't...
*Puts on Sunglasses*
...receive enough training.
AWWW YEEEAAAHHH!!
There's only so many ways to make a train suicide funny, but that was definitely one of them.
You're horrible for making me laugh, and I'm horrible for laughing.
THIS!
Someone one the Game today
I'm hard for you
this made my day
I don't get it.
I don't mean to derail this post but... how's life?
"Train"ing
Eh...
Bruce Willis needs to make a training video for this
You might as well ask the Japanese what favorite method of suicide would you like to do?
Camping
He thought he could graze the train spell card.
And Yukari pulled a Dikembe:
"Not in my house! Oh ho ho ho!"
He aint Youmu, tough luck.
The real question is how long it takes before it's classified as an "accident" or the like by police..
Someone told him the new loli ban passed
I feel horrible for laughing now.
why can't japanese just stop holding their feeling back, and say what they feel like saying, do what they feel like doing like reset of the world. instead of just keeping it all bottled up and eventually only having option of suicide because living becomes too hard in their heads, for a such a advanced nation they sure are retarded.
Rules of being a Japanese citizen:
1) LOW PAY. NO EXTRA HOURS. BE BEST WORKER NAO
2) PROFEZZIONAL-ISU BEST WAY TO HONOR YOUR FAMRY
3) YOU LOSE JOB? YOU DISHONOR FAMRY AND MUST DIE
4) YOU WON'T WORK HARD? YOU DISHONOR FAMRY AND MUST DIE
5) YOU WANT FRIENDS? YOU DISHONOR FAMRY AND MUST DIE
More like 60-100 hours work a week and no overtime pay.
plus you gotta hang out with the co-workers / bosses after work for "bonding" >.>
lol..... i ... have to ... .laugh..... aah... no.... aaaah..... looool.... famry.... ahahaha.... famry!!!!.... oh ma ..... ..no.... nooo... aahhaa... its.. famry! lol..... ahahahaha.
Why not go on a rampage and kill the pricks and let it end in an epic battle with the japanese police :)
That would bring even more shame on their family, which they try to avoid as much as possible.
While Americans and Europeans might want to take revenge on others and go out with a bang... Japanese people try to be discreet (66.4% die by hanging) and don't want to harm others.
That would be a good way to die... if only the averge jap could have access to weapons.
That would be a good way to die... if only the averge jap could have access to weapons.
The jumper certainly did what he feel like doing.
Imitating the Kool-aid man.
Sadly their society doesn't work like that :/
Nice Train.
Nice Brain maybe....
They should add multilayered ballistic glass for extra splat to decorate it.
In my mind, seppuku was the Japanese people's favourite method of suicide. Don't crush my dreams...
they choose relative painless method :)
Really? I always thought it was bleeding out from a cleanly severed penis. Oh well, to each his own.
Naa that obviously was a Yakuza hit but they just said it was a suicide because the police are too lazy to do real detective work and to keep up the illusion the Japan has no violent crime.
Don't cross the Yakuza or they'll cut your manhood off and pay off the cops to say it was a suicide.
Nope trains and oddly enough death by detergent or using a charcoal grill indoors is.
It's hanging actually overall too
He must have been watching Matrix: Revolutions.
He is not dead yet. He went to the GANTZ room.
He going to be fucked by those Onion alien..
I'm kinda interested in that "train departure melody" and the "anti-suicide blue lights"...
So, what's the preferred by salarymen, hanging or suicide by train? That part isn't clear... though I guess it's suicide by train, as most salarymen are hating the railway^^
"The sick pink fatty" lol... I don't see anything wrong with being curious. People always try to look at the carnage of accidents and stuff... wanting to see what exactly happened, how much they can find out, etc.
It's not like he's looking down at a smashed corpse, happily taking photos and grinning like a madman -_-
Though what I perceive as disturbing is that the pink man has a flashlight on him, wtf? I don't remember ever seeing someone carrying a flashlight...
Oh, and... it's weird that there is no visible blood on the window.
That's exactly what i found weird too! How come there is no blood on the windscreen? In fact there's no blood anywhere in the picture.And after having gone through so much glass... Its horrible that he was still alive after the impact. His last moments must have been excruciating, not to mention the driver having a body flung at him at high speed. He probably thought this would be an ordinary day.
"to say nothing of anyone witnessing or forced to clean up “organs and chunks of flesh from an unrecognisably pulverised body spread 2-5km from the impact site in the case of high speed trains”"
Actually there is nothing to say about them, they are trained people who feel nothing about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySMVtRmQl1Y
japan quality - oh shi....
whether you want to die or not is your problem, but please keep it to yourself
Ahh, the good ole jinshinjiko (人身事故). Pretty much a daily experience on the Chuo Line in Tokyo, hence "Chuicide".