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You go Gato.
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Given that:
A) A train evacuation situation and a spectacular transit foul-up is definitely of newsworthy importance to Gawker readership, whatever the cause.
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B) If that cause is in fact suicide-related, it's a general journalistic practice not to overplay it. Suicides on the transit system are, sadly, common enough so as to generally not be newsworthy. Moreover, despite the "they were gonna do it anyway" argument, reputable studies have concluded that sensationalized media accounts of suicide can and do bump up the incidence of others.
I don't mean to seem über-punctilious. Just handle with care, Gawker.
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Um, it sounds like the MTA handled things pretty smoothly for the other passengers... and this wasn't just a dead possum by the side of the road, this was a human being. Lord knows why they needed all that manpower, but it sure doesn't sound cut-and-dry, so I'm glad there was more rather than less.
10/07/09
This happens all of the time, like multiple times a month, in this city, and the response is always the same by the authorities because it is really fucking awful and complicated to clean up after this kind of thing - I don't know why today's one was so fascinating because it sounds unfortunately extremely routine and only affected one line (hopefully back on track now?)
I know all of this, by the way, because I was trapped in Union Square last winter after a jumper lept in front of the R train approximately 3 minutes before my N train arrived. Cops will gladly tell you all about this in horrifying, disgusting detail if you ask them why it takes so long!
10/07/09
btw this is gonna sound REALLY jaded, but I maintain that you're not really a New Yorker until your subway train runs somebody over. It's just one of those experiences that pretty much everybody who's been here long enough has had. When it happened to me, I was actually in the first car and you could feel it - it was like running somebody over in an automobile. Then you could smell it. That was the worst part. They actually told us to hold our noses as we walked between cars to evacuate out the back.
10/07/09
Let's mark this one as a low point in the annals of citizen journalism.
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