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Man Dies, No One Notices
Yahoo News offers up this brief report about a British train conductor who "stamped and carefully returned the ticket of a slumbering passenger without realizing the man was dead." I guess people only realized the guy was dead once the train pulled into the station (York) and he failed to wake up. Now, by coincidence, I took this very same train last month, and the seats were pretty cramped, so either the train was quite empty, or whoever was sitting next to the dead guy was really oblivious. The story reminds me of the old urban legend about the guy who dies in his office, sitting at his desk, but none of his co-workers notice.
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Categories: Death, Urban Legends Posted by Alex on Mon Nov 01, 2004 |
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Gee, wouldn't that be strange? To get on a train, sit down, and then.... die?
Posted by PlantPerson on Mon Nov 01, 2004 at 08:35 AM
Just be glad he took the train and didn't use the car!
Posted by Paul on Mon Nov 01, 2004 at 11:53 AM
Having experienced the death of a person in a workplace, I would have to say, considering that you lose all control of your "bodily function" upon cessation of life, unless this person sitting on the train was completely "empty", I don't see how anyone could not notice.
Posted by LErikson in USA on Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 12:12 AM
I think I'll give good old Peter a nudge on friday afternoon.....unlees he smells fine
Posted by Paul on Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 03:33 PM
damn..unless (ALEX!!)
Posted by Paul on Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 03:34 PM
A lot of people just die. I used to volunteer in a nursing home. One minute you'd be handing them a newspaper & before they've reached the business section, they're slumped in their chair.
Posted by Maegan in Tampa, FL, USA on Wed Nov 03, 2004 at 09:58 AM
When the great (I almost said "immortal") American writer Dorothy Parker was told that former President Calvin Coolidge had died, she asked, "How could they tell?"
(The more you know about Coolidge, the funnier this quip is.)
Posted by Big Gary C in Dallas, Texas on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 02:04 PM
(The more you know about Coolidge, the funnier this quip is.)
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