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mell saysSorry. Didn't know so many non-left patnetters live in the bay area. Gives me a ray of hope ;)
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Pat,
There are less suicides these days because the economy is good.
But social media, intense competition, and the widening economic gap hasn’t helped. I’d like to see it normalized for population and extended to 2019, but suicide numbers have been increasing (wiki):
She's always posting golf outings, hanging out at restaurants, etc. for workI did temp work through Kelly Services after I got my early retirement and one of the places they sent me was Sprint Sites (cell phone towers). I worked for a lady Carole Young who loved to take us on what she called "team builders", but were really just an excuse to get out of the office for the afternoon. One trip was to the Dallas Arboritum where I got a T-shirt because one of the birds crapped on my head. Another was to a beautiful bowling alley with all kinds of free perks. She always loved to go to a nice Mexican restaurant where the company picked up the tab--one trip a waitress dropped a while tray of about ten dinners right behind us. The one I didn't like and left early we were in some kind of little cars that we were supposed to drive around and use these cudgels they gave us to hit each other. It was just the opposite of GTE (now Verizon) where temps weren't included in anything, even when they had BBQ I couldn't partake because then I'd be seen as permanent. Towards the end of my contract, one day they had some nice apple pie and I was getting ready to cut a slice when some little twit said "employees only". I told her to call the police and went right ahead and cut it, took it back to my cubicle. I served six months in jail. Ask your wife if those are "team builders". They never had one of those things where you went out in the woods did goofy stuff like climbing up a tower, then falling off into everyone's arms below, which I wouldn't have done anyway.
Towards the end of my contract, one day they had some nice apple pie and I was getting ready to cut a slice when some little twit said "employees only". I told her to call the police and went right ahead and cut it, took it back to my cubicle. I served six months in jail. Ask your wife if those are "team builders".
Look like he leaped. He was in front of the train just soo fast. Too fast to have fallen in. He would have stood out in my field of vision being in the yellow zone where he would have fallen from. And if he had been pushed, myself and others would have seen that. And if he had been pushed, folks around the murderer would have reacted accordingly.
But everything I saw happen in the track after he 'appeared' seemed like it happened in slow motion like you see in movies.
I was miraculously spared any gore. No blood. He bounced off the front of the train, hit the tracks about two -- three feet in front of train. Then the train rolled right over him. He spun like a rolling log right on under. I did hear the crunching sounds.
Everyone was calling 911 but I called BART police first. Lady thought I was pranking her until other calls started to come in. Station attendent dude who was downstairs in his glass booth was wigging out more than anyone else. Nobody seemed interested in getting my statement.
My hands just kept shaking. If I hadn't had BART police already stored in my phone's contacts, I wouldn't have managed to punch the numbers in to dial. Lady behind me just started crying. Shock is weird. I had to wait in my car for about a half hour before driving home.