In short: live long, pay attention, have a good memory, and you'll accumulate quite a stack of improbabilities. Paying attention is the most important part.
Oh yes, that´s quite true.
And even if you mostly wasn´t close to those people involved, well when you commented on it, i started thinking, and realised that i could come up with many things, but murders, big nope on that. My parents and eldest brother never even had to deal with a suicide, despite working with or on trains a lot over the years(lucky...).
Though i can add one "interesting" little episode of my own to yours, i sometimes went with my mom when she was working when i was a kid, sometimes that was boring so i got myself riding with the train driver instead, and on rare occasions, i got to do the driving...
But once in 1987, there was a BIG train crash when several things happened to mess up at once, leading to 2 trains having a head on collision, both trains at around 100kph on impact(after at least one of the drivers had hit full breaks before the crash, both were closer to 110 just seconds earlier).
The not so funny part is that one of the trains involved, the day before the accident, i was the one driving that train at exactly that location.
So, if the work had been messed up as it was a day earlier, i would have been part of the train that became, very, VERY compact and squishy.
http://perrasmotornostalgi.blogspot.se/ ... lerum.htmlSurprisingly only 9 dead and 130 injured despite the extreme crash. Witnesses state that the crash was "deafening" and that the train engines were closer to vertical than horizontal at most, and despite the initial explosion being caused by nothing but kinetic energy, the people living in the area were rather disquieted by seeing a small mushroom style cloud as a result. Especially for those who only heard it, as it was heard loudly several km away.