Lethal Dose

This was sent to me as a link from TunaCrust. I love that train accidents are uniting us all over the globe! It sounds so much better in Aussie English, too.

News.com.au reports “Train track death plot backfires“. The article talks about a man, nay a dumbass, who got himself a bit dead when his attempt to kill his girlfriend took a bit of twist.

It seems that the man and his girlfriend were having an argument. It also seems that the man came up with quite a novel way of resolving the argument. He parked the car that his girlfriend was in on a level crossing in the San Fernando Valley neighbourhood of Sunland. So far he hasn’t achieved argument resolution.

Argument resolution came in a disguise. A pretty good disguise too. It appeared to all that saw it that resolution came disguised as a 450 tonne commuter train with 132 passengers aboard. If there was a door prize for best disguise at that argument, resolution would have won hands down.

So now we have a girl sitting in a car. We have a car, with a girl in it, parked on a level crossing. Given the choice it seems like being outside of the car would be a better place then inside the car. Especially with 450 tonne resolution approaching.

And then there’s the twist. Resolution, disguised as a 450 tonne commuter train with 132 passengers aboard, hits car. Car hits boyfriend. Boyfriend dies. Girl ends up in hospital, alive, but injured.

updated in today’s LA Times: she changes her story!

And I’m match-gaming it, b/c of a nasty email i got from .. oh never mind.

Based on ___’s statement and witness accounts, detectives have deemed the incident to be “an attempted murder-suicide,” Rock said.

But in a telephone interview with a Times reporter Tuesday afternoon, ___ said ___ never intended to kill her.

“He wasn’t trying to kill anybody,” she said. “He was trying to outrun the train.”

___ said the couple had been rushing from one auto body shop to another looking for a car part. She said she had an 18-month old daughter waiting for her at home.

“I didn’t tell them that my future husband was trying to kill me,” she said. “He wouldn’t do that.” Wright, who also denied that the couple had been arguing at the time of the crash, said she was dazed when she talked to detectives. “I told them I didn’t remember nothing,” she said. “I told them he was trying to outrun the train.” Wright said she had known ___ for years and been romantically involved with him for three months. But during her interview with a reporter she seemed unaware of his death.

“Where is ____?” she asked at one point.

Several members of ____’ family also dismissed police accounts of what happened.

“For them to say it was murder-suicide — it was not right,” said Michael ____, ___’ uncle. “That is not him. It was just bad judgment.”

Police said ___ survived because ____ might have pulled slightly askew onto the track, causing the train to hit the car’s rear quarter panel and passenger door and sending it spinning into the guardrail.

When the train hit the car again, ____ was ejected, Rock said. ____, who remains hospitalized, suffered numerous cuts and a concussion.