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Old December 23rd 05, 04:31 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.local.london,uk.transport.london
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Default Teenager dies 'playing' on hi-speed track out of Paddington


"Simon" wrote in message ups.com...
Brimstone wrote
No one is "gleeful" that someone has got himself killed.

JFG wrote
Please show me a gleeful post in this thread.



Are the above statements really grounded in fact? - look at the
excerpts below from this email thread, it is hard to escape the general
view that due justice has been served in a way that many find
satisfying at least. The comments do range from at best 'hard hearted'
to at worst 'celebratory'.

1. we should perhaps thanks the HEX for contributing to crime
prevention.

2.He was knowingly and willingly in the very wrong place at a very
wrong time.....and paid the price

3. HIS actions cost him HIS life. Regardless of date, this guy was a
bloody idiot. If ....... i have to say 'i feel so sorry for him and
maybe it wasn't his FAULT and he was only 17 '..... then sorry, i
don't buy that.

4. this guy got exactly what he deserved.

5. Why have compassion for someone who deliberately puts himself in
harm's way

6. Why have compassion for someone so reckless with his own well being?


7. If someone is sufficiently stupid to stand in front of a fast
moviing train, what should anyone else have sympathy for him?

8. So it's one less hooded chav mugger to worry about


maybe it's not a view that ' justice has been served that many find satisfying at least ' and i'm certainly not celebrating this
person's death under a train. I just feel that he was aware of his dangerous surroundings , he knew he shouldn't have been there
and the consequences of being at said place at said time cost him his life. Why should i pity him for his stupidity ?
No celebration that he's dead, just stating my observations. If he had constantly put a loaded gun in his mouth with the safety
catch off for a game or a laugh and it accidentally went off, would you be so condemning of my thoughts or would you say , '
bloody fool , why put a loaded gun in your mouth...how stupid...didn't he know the danger , i've no sympathy for such a lack of
regard' etc etc etc Well whats the difference between the gun/mouth thing or playing on a busy railway ?