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Man struck by train at a Alexandria Metro stop dies, he was attacked and being chased by two assailants
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Anonymous
Also don't jump onto the tracks with your bags. |
Anonymous
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Same station where Jeffrey Gary attacked a mother and her child back in June, all on video and he didn’t stop until a woman approached them to see WTH he was doing.
This station only has one way in and out. And it has a VERY long walkway to the platform, and then once you’re on the platform you can’t go anywhere else (no exit, can’t escape). 18 and 17 yr olds are both basic adults, adult size bodies. They attacked this man, and chased him, all the way from the fair gates to the platform which is a LONG way. And no one does anything. Nothing. I cannot imagine how you can believe that jumping onto the tracks is the better option, but he must have. Awful. |
Anonymous
Unfortunately, this is the best post in this thread thus far. |
Anonymous
The photos/video indicate that they were attempting to fare jump behind him when he entered the station, but he turned and closed the fare gate doors behind him to prevent them from doing so. The girls then jump up and over the gate and start chasing him. Also, there are very few adult men who could take on two full grown teens (these were not 13 year olds, one was an adult and the other was almost an adult) who are intent on harming him. As another poster mentioned, he's also going to be reluctant to hurt them, which puts them at a huge advantage over him because they DNGAF. Maybe you could roll up into a ball and protect your head and be okay, but the odds are good they will rob you and try to drag you. Incidents like this make me think of that show Adolescence, and the way the boy talks about the stabbing and the death of his classmate (at his hands). He was mad at her. She'd made fun of him. She deserved to be punished. And he can't really discuss the situation beyond that because he's so emotionally stunted. I think that's where these kids are at when they do this stuff. It's pure id, totally untethered from a sense of morality, or personal responsibility. I don't think this man was really even a person to these girls. |
Anonymous
What the hell are you even talking about? It's a normal station with a normal walk, escalator, and three points of egress- two elevators and one escalator. |
Anonymous
+1 but that idiot gets points for being dramatic |
Anonymous
Drunk, high, in jail, at the club, sitting on a street corner somewhere shooting the $hit with friends. Some people will say "at work" but IME the parents of teens who behave this way are NOT at work, which is an activity which would set an example of how a functional person behaves in the world. By the time kids get to this point, they've already been robbed of functional childhoods, decent parenting, or any values system that would make them at least pause before chasing a man to his death. This is a problem that is best solved with free birth control, abortion, or giving children up for adoption when you are so dysfunctional that you will not be able to give that child a real shot at life. |
Anonymous
Thank you for saying this. There is nothing special about this station -- it is like dozens of other stations in the network. This could have happened at any metro station. I think the biggest factor was time of day and how quiet the station was -- the girls would not have attempted the chase at a busier station, most likely, and also would have been less likely to try to fare jump at a station with metro police and just more people around, because there's a much greater risk of being caught. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| So many people should be responsible but I would not blame this victim. He was right for not allowing fare evaders to follow him. Where was the station manager? Why weren’t these girls in school? If school couldn’t keep them in school, they should be in juvie. Where were their parents? |
Anonymous
No one is blaming the victim. I was the one to point out that if the station managers do not care, if the WMATA leadership does not care, why should they expect me to police fare evaders and risk injury or death to myself? Because if they cared, they would be doing a hell of a lot more to stop it. I commute through Union Station and see people jumping over the terminals (or whatever they are called) all the time. So do the station managers. Oh and there is usually plenty of police and now national guard around. |
Anonymous
| Why isn’t the name of the 18 yr old released? |
Anonymous
Because they don't have it. |
Anonymous
| It seems like the victim was trying to flag the train operator for help. It’s a horrific story. They need to catch those girls and charge them with murder. |
Anonymous
| The neighborhood/project right across the street is basically a slum filled with all sorts of moronic problems. The 7-11 right around the corner from Braddock is the sketchiest one I’ve ever visited in this country. What will happen is the two airheads will get apprehended and then their “community” will circle the wagons and protect them. Gentrification has t really solved a thing in the North Old Town area. |