Man injured after jumping onto LRT-1 tracks
Man injured after jumping onto LRT-1 tracks
The 26-year-old is stable and recovering in the hospital, the Department of Transportation says
“The train operator was able to immediately apply the emergency brake when the passenger jumped on the tracks,” said Transportation Assistant Secretary for Railways Jorjette Aquino.
Remember when Filipinos used to say that we should emulate Singapore's penalty for suicide attempts? I wonder if our attitude towards it has improved with mental health getting some exposure and attention now.
Had to look it up, and found the following from Wikipedia:
Suicide was decriminalised in Singapore with the passing of the Criminal Law Reform Bill on 6 May 2019.
Before that, Section 309 of the Penal Code stated that "Whoever attempts to commit suicide, and does any act towards the commission of such offence, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both." The section was rarely enforced, between 2013 and 2015, only 0.6% of reported cases was brought to court.
Akala ko pa naman death penalty, hahahahaha!
Isn't he gonna be in a whole lot of debt for this? With Hospital fees and LRTA damages
More reasons to try again next time, with a different method, I suppose?
This would probably be the hottest take here, but here goes:
Suicide via LRT is stupid. It doesn't run fast enough to cause an instantly fatal injury (unless you get ‘lucky’ enough to be decapitated, though IDK how instant such a death would be). Moreover because of that relatively slow speed, the (poor) driver would still have enough time to react and apply the emergency brakes. One would probably have more ‘success’ crossing Commonwealth Avenue in the dead of the night.
@megane_kun @decadentrebel maybe they wanted a statement suicide like the intention of suicide bombers (aside from acts of terrorism ofc)