Human Damage Collision?!

[withyouinyourheart]

thats sad

[Germanalien84]

yeah I from Germany too and Even if it might not be as common as it is in Japan, there are still a lot of people ending their live jumping in front of a train. Actually thats how I lost a friend myself. One night she jumped in front of a train from a bridge. Nobody knows why.

[t3kboy3]

I was on a train last week that someone jumped in front of... We were stopped for about 35mins, doors stayed closed. I didnt realise what was going on at first. It was when the fire brigade showed up I suspected.  Then seeing a large pool of blood on the platform next to a big bag confirmed it. It felt strange how the train just kept going, like nothing had happened really.

[BusanKevin]

eeeek...that's nasty! Lukily I've never seen that sort of thing so upclose and personal. I hope I never do.

[CuttyP123]

On German train stations they call it "Unfall mit Personenschaden", which roughly translates into "accident involving physical injury". Suicide by train is pretty common in Germany, about 20 incidents per week.

[sengoku17]

you must of waited hours..thats just weird..never heard of that before lol

i bet the people were angry

[Marouku]

I've only seen the much more ambiguous "delay due to accident."

[chrismecking]

I have read about it in a book called "that's why Japanese people are annoying" from Christoph Neuman, a German journalist, who is living in Japan! He writes that this is really a common thing over there. Don't some people wonder why it is the way it is!?!?

[walkwalkslow]

wow, people still do that?!?! pretty sad to put others into that situation.

[69lashia69]

Most definitely a little creepy :S

[Niiickoh]

Very creepy. o_o

[runnyrunny999]

I had BAD experience when I was on the train and someone jumped in front of the train. Can you believe that I felt something bumpy at that moment!! I'm not sure if it's what I'm thinking....hope not. But anyways we were stuck in the train for about 2 hours...No lie. It was about 11 years ago.

[demonvamp33]

thats is kinda freaky

[LordBalto]

Good name for a rock band. Maybe if they recognized the concept of mental illness and didn't blame it on evil spirits....

[BusanKevin]

You're right....it is a good band name!

[DerSchnurrbart]

I think its terrible when people jump in front of trains. If I was going to kill myself, I wouldn't do it in a way that inconvenienced a bunch of other people. That is very inconsiderate imo.

[BusanKevin]

I'm sure that's a joke many frustrated commuters say!

[freeofgreed]

wow thats creepy, but whats even more creepy is how they made up a term for it as if it were an everyday thing (which it probably is).

[BusanKevin]

to be honest, it pretty much is. There was a period last year where my train was late 3 days in one week for that same reason :(

[freeofgreed]

wo, that much!?

[Graehaus]

That is disgusting. The loss of life is horrible.

[BusanKevin]

I agree

[WildRebecca]

ong! How horrible! they could at least lie and say something else. But I suppose America shelters there people lol

[BusanKevin]

I suppose they are just being honest to the train's customers. The "train late due to seismic activity" one I saw once really freaked me out!

[dettestrike]

wow. wow in a bad way that is, due to lack of more appropriate words coming to mind.

goosebumps! argh @ being on a train that hit a jumper... xx'

[bestiaccia]

Terrible!!!

[BusanKevin]

That only happened to me once in Korea...in Busan. Someone jumped in front of the train I was on. I luckily didn't see anything, but had to get off the train and take a taxi home.

[toshibasap]

thats very spooky!it would put me of to go onto that train

[BusanKevin]

it is really common here. I wasn't taking that train though. it has caused me to be late for work many times though.

[jay2122ss]

All of jampers should go to fuji forest lol

[BusanKevin]

I saw a story on CNN about the forest around Fuji-san. they have even installed special cameras around there to try to stop people from killing themselves!

[TheGazettE1]

wow that is creppy

[BusanKevin]

I agree!

[Daichen]

not again...

[chooechooe]

do you know japan is the most perverted country in the world?

they have their own porn museum, and international adult fair and make sex toys

[Bureikeisan]

Maybe you should go to Korea, or Thailand or the PI Japan, is hardly the most perverted country in the world. but unlike the United States most countries do not demonize sex and perversions they just chalk them up to natural human instinct.

[Bureikeisan]

I can see how you might disagree with my responce to your comment, If you do just go to the nearest Navy base and ask any sailor that has been on a westpac, or medcruise and they can surly tell you where the most perverted places are.

[yozka]

ohh crap ...

[winDragon79]

i read that JR often charges the family of the "jumper" for damages caused to the train, track, delays, clean-up, etc.

[BusanKevin]

Yeah....the other train lines apparently do that as well.

[blah22322]

Why were you there... OH NO BUSAN KEVIN!!!! I SWEAR ULL GET MORE AND MORE SUBSCRIBERS!!!!!!!! DONT JUMP!!!

[BusanKevin]

no worries...the only time I jump is when there is a special at the pizza shop...then I'm jumping for joy!

[ManaStar]

It's too sad that so many people continue to do it. What's worse is by people continuing to do it, others are following their example. :(

[BusanKevin]

yeah...for sure. The copycat thing is really awful :(

[takura13]

dude its like suicide club where all those girls held hands and jumped in front of the train together, freaking awesome...well not really but anyways thank busan kevin for this wonderful insight hope to see you again soon

[BusanKevin]

Thanks for watching.

[MajorAddiction]

damn.... 0_0

[BusanKevin]

yep!

[betamaxdc]

wow..really sad.

[BusanKevin]

yeah...crazy stuff.

[DeeDoubleYou81]

WTF!? Wow, I too have heard that. Even with school age children because of the pressures of their education. Craziness! Sad....

[BusanKevin]

yeah. Especially sad when children feel that sort of pressure.

[ughat]

In Japan, I heared more people are jumping into trains because of the economical recession. It is sad..

[BusanKevin]

yeah....unfortunately those 2 things always seem to correspond.

[ChemistInJapan]

I just made a video about this for DC.

You gotta love the good ol' 人身事故 announcment. It's so vague. I used to tell my students that it means, "some sort of human-train interaction has taken place."

[BusanKevin]

Yeah...that is vague, but at the same time, everyone knows what it means. Of course, when all of the trains are late by 30-50 minutes and it's a beautiful sunny morning....everyone knows what's up then too!

[weeknightingale]

So I assume that the human accident damaged the train. If it was not so sad i would think it was funny the translation that is..

[Neppybutt]

Brains all over the front of the trains?

[Poopcopy]

darn humans always damaging things.

[kanarakuotoko]

it's all part of a conspiracy.

[murasakiryu]

the new tube stations in london have a barrier to prevent the "accidents"

[ChemistInJapan]

it's a bit more of a logistical challenge to do this for above ground stations. The idea has come up a time or two.

[BusanKevin]

Many subway stations here have those "suicide doors", but for some reason, the train stations don't. I think they should.

[JessicaHalo]

You're right, it is pretty freaky. Even more so since it's telling everyone at the stations what happened. I'd definitely be down for a while if I saw that on my way somewhere.

[BusanKevin]

yeah...it's weird to see that for sure.

[PantsuPantsu]

Ugh.. nasty.. and I think I remember them having a group of people just for this moment?

[dettestrike]

it was quite disturbing. XD @ suicide club

[brokenchopstickz]

they made a movie about that! it was called suicide club!! good movie

[BusanKevin]

really? I haven't seen it. Is it a Japanese movie?

[brokenchopstickz]

yep its japanese! i recommend u watch! really good!!

[6663000]

Yea, I can see how that would be a little disturbing.

It's sort of sad that society can make people do such durastic things.

[BusanKevin]

yeah....people here certainly feel a lot of pressure. There are always better ways of dealing with it!