Four Confirmed Dead in DC Metro Crash

jennthebenn · 06.22.2009, 06:37 PM

This hits home. When the car just won't suffice, both Panto and myself are regular riders on the red line.

This picture is fucking insanity.

floatingslowly · 06.22.2009, 06:42 PM

as with an airplane crash, underground train wreck ranks low on my "ways I'd like to die" list.

statistically yr still safer than taking the car.

if I could, I'd get rid of mine.

jennthebenn · 06.22.2009, 06:47 PM

It's a very safe mode of transportation. And when I move to Montgomery
County in a couple months, I look forward to more rides on the Metro.

You couldn't pay me to drive a car.

floatingslowly · 06.22.2009, 06:50 PM

I have to drive 15-20 minutes just to get anywhere.

I hate it.

cars were the worst invention ever. nuke bombs are safer.

MellySingsDoom · 06.22.2009, 07:13 PM

senor robot - public transport isn't all it's cracked up to be sometimes - but I speak as one who has recently taken the "tube" stone cold sober at night, and realised just how many fellow Lahdaners are pished at thaet time of day. Which is nice.

samuel · 06.22.2009, 07:28 PM

My friends and I visit DC all the time... ride the orange line from New Carrollton inward. I could never have pictured anything like this happening. I'll still ride it and all, but damn I feel bad for those who have lost their lives.

pantophobia · 06.22.2009, 07:44 PM

currently at 6 dead, been kinda listening to some dc fire band radio on the progress, could go higher after they finish searching the wreckage, and how 6 people who are in critical condition do in the hospital

just fucked up all around, you'd think with the amount of tech and gps, you think conductors would know what train is on what line and avoid this kinda stuff

phoenix · 06.22.2009, 09:21 PM

erugh.

Train wrecks. For some reason though, I still feel a hell of a lot safer on trains than I do on a plane.. Even when the train is kind of rickety-racking along and loud.

phoenix · 06.22.2009, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

the "tube" stone cold sober at night, and realised just how many fellow Lahdaners are pished at thaet time of day.

half of them are probably antipodean drunks anyway. On one of time's I caught it late night, one Oz guy trying to explain to a northern england girl what the 'ridgy didge' hand sign meant brought out laughs and 'ridgy didge' hand gestures in the rest of the carriage who were evidently oz/nz'ers. She was the only brit in the carriage of 5 people.

!@#$%! · 06.22.2009, 09:36 PM

FUCK!!!!!

i was blissfully unaware of this and now i'm following updates on the WaPo.

thanks for the notice. good to hear you guys are well.

jon boy · 06.22.2009, 10:48 PM

thats terrible. at least six killed and many many more injured. glad you guys are ok.

Lamont Cranston · 06.23.2009, 06:08 PM

has the anti-Train lobby started up yet?
And phoenix thats cause our railways are old and poorly maintained + the X'Trapolis models have rigid spring suspension

06.22.2009, 06:37 PM	#1
jennthebenn expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,261	This hits home. When the car just won't suffice, both Panto and myself are regular riders on the red line. This picture is fucking insanity. __________________ http://jennthebenn.tumblr.com/
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06.22.2009, 06:42 PM	#2
floatingslowly invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 21,165	as with an airplane crash, underground train wreck ranks low on my "ways I'd like to die" list. statistically yr still safer than taking the car. if I could, I'd get rid of mine.
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06.22.2009, 06:47 PM	#3
jennthebenn expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,261	It's a very safe mode of transportation. And when I move to Montgomery County in a couple months, I look forward to more rides on the Metro. You couldn't pay me to drive a car. __________________ http://jennthebenn.tumblr.com/
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06.22.2009, 06:50 PM	#4
floatingslowly invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 21,165	I have to drive 15-20 minutes just to get anywhere. I hate it. cars were the worst invention ever. nuke bombs are safer.
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06.22.2009, 07:13 PM	#5
MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	senor robot - public transport isn't all it's cracked up to be sometimes - but I speak as one who has recently taken the "tube" stone cold sober at night, and realised just how many fellow Lahdaners are pished at thaet time of day. Which is nice. __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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06.22.2009, 07:28 PM	#6
samuel the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 1,175	My friends and I visit DC all the time... ride the orange line from New Carrollton inward. I could never have pictured anything like this happening. I'll still ride it and all, but damn I feel bad for those who have lost their lives. __________________ samueldahle.bandcamp.com
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06.22.2009, 07:44 PM	#7
pantophobia expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,349	currently at 6 dead, been kinda listening to some dc fire band radio on the progress, could go higher after they finish searching the wreckage, and how 6 people who are in critical condition do in the hospital just fucked up all around, you'd think with the amount of tech and gps, you think conductors would know what train is on what line and avoid this kinda stuff
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06.22.2009, 09:21 PM	#8
phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	erugh. Train wrecks. For some reason though, I still feel a hell of a lot safer on trains than I do on a plane.. Even when the train is kind of rickety-racking along and loud. __________________ tiny and lost.
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06.22.2009, 09:36 PM	#10
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,581	FUCK!!!!! i was blissfully unaware of this and now i'm following updates on the WaPo. thanks for the notice. good to hear you guys are well.
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06.22.2009, 10:48 PM	#11
jon boy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: psycho battery Posts: 12,161	thats terrible. at least six killed and many many more injured. glad you guys are ok. __________________ Sarcasm[A] is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing \|@ <------- Euphoric brain cell just moments before expiration V _ \ / _ PING <-------- moments later / \ http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljhxq...isruo1_500.gif
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06.23.2009, 06:08 PM	#12
Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	has the anti-Train lobby started up yet? And phoenix thats cause our railways are old and poorly maintained + the X'Trapolis models have rigid spring suspension __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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