impromptu rube goldberg device works! kinda.
Christina Almeida, Associated Press Writer
Los Angeles — A man trying to kill his girlfriend by leaving her in a car on railroad tracks was himself killed Monday when a commuter train launched the vehicle into him as he tried to flee, police said. The girlfriend survived.The man drove the car in front of a group of other vehicles stopped at a railroad crossing in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sunland, Officer Mike Lopez said.
The driver, who was seen arguing with his girlfriend, parked the car on the tracks and jumped out, leaving her behind, Lopez said.
A northbound Metrolink train hit the rear of the car, hurling it into the man. The girlfriend was taken to the hospital, where she was in stable condition, Lopez said.
“She gets hit by a train and lives. He gets hit by his own car and he dies,” Lopez said.
jay: i dunno about this plan, b. people have been killing their spouses since the birth of time using only their bare hands and sometimes a small weapon. i don’t know why you had to go and make it so complicated — cars, trains, commuters. as an aside, the conversations at your funeral are probably going to be really awkward.
cates: is that what they call “carma”? i’m sorry. punch me.
jay: terrible, patrick. just awful. and i’ll be punching myself for missing that pun.