Man Attempts to Flatten Penny. Is Himself Flattened.

The irony here is not that the man was trying to impress his family by putting a penny on the tracks to be flattened by an oncoming train, and it's not really the fact that he didn't make it off the tracks in time and was hit and killed in front of his family. Noooo, the irony is that he was a retired police officer.

Well, maybe that's not too ironic. The cops I've known, and I've had two in my family - my Grampa and Great Uncle - think it's perfectly ok for them to do things that other people should not or are not allowed to do. Since they enforce the law, they are exempt from it I guess, or at least, they are convinced of their own intelligence or superiority, as enforcers of the law, that it doesn't apply to them. My grampa regularly drove WHILE drinking...with me and my sister and cousins in the car. We thought it was fun at the time. What did we know?

So this ex-cop, not only does he decide to impress his family with his little stunt, he does it at a train station, where the tracks are below the station platform. He had to jump down into that pit the train travels through. So down he goes, but can't quite make the jump back out. His family tries to help him, but there's a train coming at 75 mph and they don't make it. Neither does he.

Imagine the horror of seeing your dad and husband smashed by a train. Some lesson dad.

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Man Arrested in Fatal Elevator Accident

I think you can file this under "Justice Gone Mad"

Actually, I think once the 'justice' part of the process begins, or the "Order" in "Law and Order" takes place, the case will be thrown out. In the meantime, the poor guy will be treated like a felon and a murderer while the travesty that is the legal process runs its course.

Two people are having a fight in a trendy nightclub. One man tries to break up the fight. In the process he pushes another man into some elevator doors. The elevator doors open up, or fall off their track and the man falls four floors to his death.

Would any rational person think this man intended to do the other man harm, or by his action or inaction caused this man's death? How would anyone EVER be able to imagine that an elevator's doors would open by simply shoving someone against them? The person who should be charged with negligence resulting in death is the building's super or the elevator inspector. Ridiculous.

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