Sorry about the day, Bob. Life is fragile indeed. Some days are really
harder than the others.Hope the survivors - family, driver and you and
the passengers - manage to get over that, time is a healer and good
company helps very much.
Interesting photos. #5 is my fave - but #7 comes very close...
LF
Bob W escreveu:
A few weeks ago I booked today off work and bought myself a cheap train
ticket to go and see the bonobos at Twycross Zoo - my favourite animals,
which I've never seen in real life. This is the only place in Britain where
they can be seen, and has the largest collection of non-human primates in
the world. So I was up bright and early and onto the train looking forward
to a pleasant trip in the spring sunshine, and a nice day out with some
photos to show for it.
But as the train reached top speed just beyond Northampton someone stepped
onto the track and killed themself. I could hear and feel the bumps as the
the body hit the underside of the carriage.
The train came to a halt, of course, and there was silence until the driver
asked the guard to come to the cab. There was then a wait of over 2 hours
while a relief driver was brought, the emergency services cleared up the
mess, and the train was driven back to Northampton to be taken out of
service.
By then it was too late for me to continue - I would not have had enough
time to see the bonobos properly, and my mind was on other things, so I
returned to London where I had a very late lunch in Gordon Square Gardens in
Bloomsbury, which cheered me up somewhat. Here are some pictures of primates
enjoying the sun in a deciduous woodland habitat:
http://www.web-options.com/Primates/
It's a terrible thing for someone to be in such a state of mind that they do
something like that. Terrible for that person's family and friends, and
terribly unfair on the train driver, who is going to have to live with the
memory for the rest of his life.
Anyway, I'll have to book another day off to see the bonobos. They solve all
their problems by shagging each other senseless, which seems like a much
better solution to me.
http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2008/05/11/know_your_primate_pan_paniscus/
Bob
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