Woman loses hands under DART

The Dagda

emul8ter25 wrote: »

I'm in Dublin center right now and the ass next to me has his baby pram pushed halfway into the street as cars go past.... So yeah, I speak the truth.

So you're posting on boards while walking? And you're pontificating about "other" people?!!

Remmy

That is fcuked up, poor girl. Imagine how your life would change in a flash if you lost both hands.

EdenHazard

Real odd like, I like Boards and its cool to see people with different personalities to what your used to but then others are actually outcasts of society! Turns me off the site!

I remember on the thread where the Russian mum killed her kids, some people were making jokes. Clowns!

emul8ter25

The Dagda wrote: »

So you're posting on boards while walking? And you're pontificating about "other" people?!!

Actually I was standing on the sidewalk leaning up against a building. Is that a problem?

But yeah, I'm one of "those people" that wait for the crosswalk and does not run out in front of traffic. And I get pissed every time the speed limit gets lowered again or more speed humps are installed because there are far too many brain dead people that can't follow a simple concept and get themselves hit by a bus.

brummytom

God, I love After Hours.

Chinese man gets horrifically crushed by a steamroller; "HAHAHAHAHA. I LOVE SPRING ROLLS. GREAT ROCK AND ROLL' etc.

Irish Woman loses hands, "How dare you make jokes, that's absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself"

EdenHazard

That does exist a bit as well

billybudd

EdenHazard wrote: »

Real odd like, I like Boards and its cool to see people with different personalities to what your used to but then others are actually outcasts of society! Turns me off the site!

I remember on the thread where the Russian mum killed her kids, some people were making jokes. Clowns!

Some times a tragedy is masked by humour, i mean i giggle like a little girl at funeral for no reason at all sometimes, last time at a very close uncle who i had a very close relationship with.

The Dagda

emul8ter25 wrote: »

Actually I was standing on the sidewalk leaning up against a building. Is that a problem?

But yeah, I'm one of "those people" that wait for the crosswalk and does not run out in front of traffic. And I get pissed every time the speed limit gets lowered again or more speed humps are installed because there are far too many brain dead people that can't follow a simple concept and get themselves hit by a bus.

Apologies, you're obviously eminently qualified to judge people, make sweeping generalisations, and compare tragedy to people going about their daily lives!?! :rolleyes:

JohnMarston

brummytom wrote: »

God, I love After Hours.

Chinese man gets horrifically crushed by a steamroller; "HAHAHAHAHA. I LOVE SPRING ROLLS. GREAT ROCK AND ROLL' etc.

Irish Woman loses hands, "How dare you make jokes, that's absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself"

It is what it is. Personally i think being crushed by a steamroller is a horrible way to go. Everyone will react a different way. People are joking about this poor woman and what happened to her as well.

emul8ter25

The Dagda wrote: »

Apologies, you're obviously eminently qualified to judge people, make sweeping generalisations, and compare tragedy to people going about their daily lives!?! :rolleyes:

We all judge people every day, just like you are judging me.

Hows the view from up on your horse?

The Dagda

emul8ter25 wrote: »

We all judge people every day, just like you are judging me.

Hows the view from up on your horse?

Tell me, how am I judging you? I'm simply pointing out the error of your ways.
You're the one judging people, and labelling their actions as dumb, etc., all from your lofty position against that wall.

Da Shins Kelly

Wow, some really stupid people on this thread.

Gringo180

There really is some absolute Mongoloides in this forum!

emul8ter25

The Dagda wrote: »

Tell me, how am I judging you? I'm simply pointing out the error of your ways.
You're the one judging people, and labelling their actions as dumb, etc., all from your lofty position against that wall.

here's the thing... if you think standing with your baby pram pushed halfway into the road as vehicles whiz past is a good idea, then yes, i AM judging you AND questioning your intelligence.

kylith

Merch wrote: »

Are you saying that its a common enough thing for people to cross the tracks due to laziness or are you kidding??
maybe she was drunk, stupid high jinks (if thats the case she is going to feel worse, if it happened due to an accident, like fainting off the platform? dont know why people stand so close to the edge, lets hope she wasnt pushed)
I feel sick thinking about it

I'm not kidding. I don't use the dart very often, so I don't know how common it is, but I have seen people hop down onto the tracks to cross over rather than using the bridge. People also stand much too close to the edge of the platform hoping, I suppose, that this will help them get onto the train first; I'm surprised that this hasn't caused more accidents.

I feel sorry for this woman, she's crippled for the rest of her life, and I hope that it wasn't as a result of her own stupidity.

the_syco

This part;

She ended up trapped beneath the train

has me concerned about her mental health.

kraggy

brummytom wrote: »

God, I love After Hours.

Chinese man gets horrifically crushed by a steamroller; "HAHAHAHAHA. I LOVE SPRING ROLLS. GREAT ROCK AND ROLL' etc.

Irish Woman loses hands, "How dare you make jokes, that's absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself"

Of course people are going to be more considerate when it's an Irish case.

Her family could be on boards. Therefore, given the tragic circumstances, I think joking is bang out of order.

admiralofthefleet

maybe the platform was slippy with ice/frost and the girl slipped. horrible thing to happen, poor girl

The Dagda

emul8ter25 wrote: »

here's the thing... if you think standing with your baby pram pushed halfway into the road as vehicles whiz past is a good idea, then yes, i AM judging you AND questioning your intelligence.

How generous of you!
And posting about it on d'internet? How modern.

And in a thread about a young lady losing her hands in a tragic accident? How sensitive. :rolleyes:

humanji

There's a topic, stick to it. There's a feedback forum if you want to comment on the site. Any more off-topic bickering will result in infractions.

anncoates

I'm sure that it will transpire what happened but the fact that she ended up under the train as it arrived might suggest that she fell under it or threw herself under. Very horrible thing to happen though.

yermandan

Didnt realise this would cause such a furore (sp).

I wonder would there be a case for putting barriers up on platforms, then again it would make getting the train even more unbearable

Akrasia

emul8ter25 wrote: »

I'll be honest. If this was an accident of course I have sympathy for the woman, but if it resulted from her own stupidity I have none. She would have put all the people on the luas in danger just to save a minute? Selfish and stupid.

But we don't know why it happened so....

I don't know the full circumstances of this incident, If the poor woman was pushed or fell in front of the train, then it is an unimaginably traumatic and horrific incident, however, even if the woman was completely in the wrong and acting completely and utterly recklessly, she still has my full sympathy.

We've all done stupid stuff in our lives, we've all made mistakes and luckily for ourselves, we get away with it most of the time.

No matter what the circumstances, this poor girl has suffered a horrific accident and I feel terribly sorry for her and her family.

There is a shocking lack of empathy on this forum.

It is a normal human reaction to feel emotionally connected to someone when we hear the details of a tragic incident. To the people who can't feel for this girl, you need to look closely at yourselves. Some of the reactions on this thread are verging on the psychopathic

kraggy

yermandan wrote: »

Didnt realise this would cause such a furore (sp).

I wonder would there be a case for putting barriers up on platforms, then again it would make getting the train even more unbearable

We have platform doors here in the Seoul subway. The platform door opens a split second before the train door so it's like there isn't a platform door at all.

Seems strange to think there aren't platform doors on the dart line or in the tube in London, New York etc.

yop

Could have been pushed, could have slipped, could have jumped, regardless of what happened its a terrible thing for the girl.

I don't frequent AH but I am quite shocked at the level of some of the comments. As the mods have said, cop on has really gone out the window. If any tragedy occurs to those who mock, please remind us to mock.

mike65

The woman, believed to be in her early 20s, was hit by the north-bound Greystones to Malahide train as it came into the station.

Fair chance she uses boards.ie I'd say. The smart arsed lack of empathy that one associates with teenagers sometimes really sticks in the craw.

The Dagda

yop wrote: »

If any tragedy occurs to those who mock, please remind us to mock.

Fight a lack of empathy with a lack of empathy. :cool:

yop

The Dagda wrote: »

Fight a lack of empathy with a lack of empathy. :cool:

Maybe learn sarcasm

anncoates

kylith wrote: »

I feel sorry for this woman, she's crippled for the rest of her life, and I hope that it wasn't as a result of her own stupidity.

I assume you've never ever done anything stupid or made a brief lapse of judgment in your life?

The Dagda

yop wrote: »

Maybe learn sarcasm

Indeed.

CruelCoin

kraggy wrote: »

We have platform doors here in the Seoul subway. The platform door opens a split second before the train door so it's like there isn't a platform door at all.

Seems strange to think there aren't platform doors on the dart line or in the tube in London, New York etc.

That works well in a system that could stop trains at the same point each time.

Irish trains stop wherever they feel like.

Any attempt to implement that idea here would result in work stoppages, don't deny it, it just would.

ronan45

I would be surprised if they cant reattach her hands, I remember a man had his hand cut off with a samurai sword in a pub in finglas and afaik they were able to re-attach his hand.
Now the cut with a samurai would be a lot more clean but im sure there has to be a way to minimise the damage. awful stuff altogether.

CruelCoin

yop wrote: »

Could have been pushed, could have slipped, could have jumped, regardless of what happened its a terrible thing for the girl.

I don't frequent AH but I am quite shocked at the level of some of the comments. As the mods have said, cop on has really gone out the window. If any tragedy occurs to those who mock, please remind us to mock.

Free speech. Should it happen to me, feel free to do so.

I'd be too busy to care about what you said, doing such things like "ARRGH MY FOOKIN HAAAANDS"

CruelCoin

ronan45 wrote: »

I would be surprised if they cant reattach her hands, I remember a man had his hand cut off with a samurai sword in a pub in finglas and afaik they were able to re-attach his hand.
Now the cut with a samurai would be a lot more clean but im sure there has to be a way to minimise the damage. awful stuff altogether.

Hands coming off from a train going over them is likely to result in a ****load of crushing and mushing. Little chance of re-attachment i reckon. She might get something resembling hands, but i really doubt if there will be any function.

Better to amputate and go for bionics.

zef

She could be a poster on boards, or members of her family could.
Imagine yourself in her situation - would you not feel anything but terror?
I hope she comes out of this ok, irrespective of how it happenned. It has, and she will have the aftermath to live with.

Lapin

There is a constant flow of threads on AH where its perfectly acceptable, expected even, for people to pull the piss out of something the OP said or try to make jokes out of it. All fun and games and no harm done.

But once every so often a thread appears that calls for a bit of cop on and understanding. The kind of thread where - If you don't have anything good to offer -stay the fúck away.

This is one of those threads.

To all the twisted, sick and smart arsed fúcks whoring for the thanks button on this thread - find out what hospital that girl is in, call up there, and while she is lying there trying to figure out what the hell happenned and face the first day of the rest of a life that will never be the same again, you tell her exactly what you posted here, while her family are gathered around her bedside.

TwoShedsJackson

iamthe43 wrote: »

Why the fcuk would you laugh at someone who has just lost both hands in a terrible accident?

Now I remember why I stopped coming onto this site. There are too many a$sholes trying to be witty.

Thankfully you returned to let us know of your outrage.

This thread isn't a patch on 'woman faints on DART' I have to tell you.

Lapin

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Thankfully you returned to let us know of your outrage.

This thread isn't a patch on 'woman faints on DART' I have to tell you.

Big, big fúcking difference between the two.

If you can't see that you need psychological help.

acidskiffle

Was at that very Dart station last night and got a Dart at 8.10pm heading to Malahide and didn't see anything, shocking to hear..

humanji

People, there will be no more infractions handed out. There will only be bans. You've been warned twice and that's two times too many. Discuss the topic and only the topic.

asherbassad

Fcukin' awful.

Who knows why she was on the tracks but I doubt she was there with the intention of have her arms ripped off.

People immediately default to the "what was she doing on the tracks" in the typical blame the victim stance.

hatrickpatrick

I live in Sandycove, friend of mine saw it and thought she might have fainted. Apparently she said "I can't feel my legs" or something before falling.

The people here who are mocking this, suicide attempt or not, are the absolute scum of society. We're talking about an actual human being here for Christ's sake. Someone who is going to have a f*cked up life now and that's regardless of whether she was already depressed because of something else. It could just as easily have been your friend, sister, classmate.

One wonders would ye still be joking around about it if it had been...

oc_pl

The poor train driver, going along mnding his own business and some woman tries to kill herself. A friend of mine is a train driver and girl jumped of the platform in Malahide and he killed her it really messed him up.

nelly17

Well no matter what the cause God help her.

joseph brand

anncoates wrote: »

We'll agree to disagree.

I think the jokes are harmless and suggest a certain levity and detachment from the subject although I accept they are not to everyone's taste.

Detachment? Sneaky, I like it.

anncoates

oc_pl wrote: »

The poor train driver, going along mnding his own business and some woman tries to kill herself.

We don't know that.

joseph brand

asherbassad wrote: »

Fcukin' awful.

Who knows why she was on the tracks but I doubt she was there with the intention of have her arms ripped off.

People immediately default to the "what was she doing on the tracks" in the typical blame the victim stance.

I'm pretty certain the emergency services were asking similar questions, along with the Gardaí.

Asking a question isn't blaming.

Rigol

If my poor memory and general lack of knowledge combined with my first aid training serve me correctly -
I think they HAVE to start amputating any crushed parts after 15-20 mins to avoid the trapped blood in the crushed limb ever being recirculated and thus killing you through toxic blood poisoning.

alphabeat

Remmy wrote: »

That is fcuked up, poor girl. Imagine how your life would change in a flash if you lost both hands.

at least 80% AH users sex lives would be destroyed instantly .

the other 20 % obviously having gymnastic ability.

keano_afc

A thread that sums up this website if ever there was one.

My prayers are with this girl and her family.