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People in NYC are struggling and angry because they can't afford to live or eat. I used to live in Harlem and on the weekends I noticed the long lines at the various food pantries in my neighborhood. Food is very expensive. The rent situation in the city is getting out of hand. Growing up in the 80's I remember there was subway push deaths all the time because the mentally ill had no where to go. RIP to the victim.
Many subway stations around the world now have platform screen doors, to prevent people from being pushed or falling onto the tracks. Some of the platform screen doors are full-height, some are half-height.
I'm going to guess that we'll never see this in NYC.
Perhaps they'd get put up much quicker if the families of all the victims sued the Subway for not preventing these deaths with this safety feature?
It happened in Toronto a while back...since the progressives believe that letting the dangerously mentally ill wander about because it is their RIGHT...you will have problems....The idiots always say- so and so was off their medication? What does that mean - that some nut did not take their DO NOT PUSH PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE SUBWAY PILL?
Wouldn't it be more accurate that it's because the right wingers have cut back on programs that care for and give shelter to the mentally ill?
People in NYC are struggling and angry because they can't afford to live or eat. I used to live in Harlem and on the weekends I noticed the long lines at the various food pantries in my neighborhood. Food is very expensive. The rent situation in the city is getting out of hand. Growing up in the 80's I remember there was subway push deaths all the time because the mentally ill had no where to go. RIP to the victim.
Huh? I lived here in the 80's too, and I don't recall that at all. I do remember that one terrible incident where a young woman was killed by a mentally ill guy (Andrew Goldstein, I think was his name. And the victim Kendra Webdale, or something like that. Too lazy to look it up). That one was big news.
And something about the person being mentally ill just gives me pause -- I mean, is it better if the pusher was perfectly sane?
Wouldn't it be more accurate that it's because the right wingers have cut back on programs that care for and give shelter to the mentally ill?
Here in Toronto the left wingers insisted that the mentally ill should not be taken care of or given shelter or confined...that it was against their rights....I live in the down town area and see all sorts of thing...In my neighbourhood we have our share of wandering mentally ill people.
I knew some of these folks...so far I have seen about ten of them die in the last few years. Liberals and the super left really do not know what they are doing with the mentally ill.
If a person is slowly committing suicide on the street or they are a possible danger to others, They should be taken care of...confined humanely if possible...not set free to deteriorate and perish. It is so sad as I watch some street people go further down hill..You can tell by the shape they are in - how long they have to live...it is tragic...these people were somebodies child at one time...
Here in Toronto the left wingers insisted that the mentally ill should not be taken care of or given shelter or confined...that it was against their rights....I live in the down town area and see all sorts of thing...In my neighbourhood we have our share of wandering mentally ill people.
I knew some of these folks...so far I have seen about ten of them die in the last few years. Liberals and the super left really do not know what they are doing with the mentally ill.
If a person is slowly committing suicide on the street or they are a possible danger to others, They should be taken care of...confined humanely if possible...not set free to deteriorate and perish. It is so sad as I watch some street people go further down hill..You can tell by the shape they are in - how long they have to live...it is tragic...these people were somebodies child at one time...
I'll get a lot of s--t for this, but the incurably and dangerous mentally ill need to be humanely euthanized if the state will not warehouse them protecting other citizens.
The victim had been arguing with Turner minutes before. Here's some free advice for anyone with lack of street smarts, if you get into an argument with anyone on a train platform, stay the F away from the edge and never turn your back to them
haha I was gonna make a joke about that but don't want to get banned again
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