more on the bus

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I know, well, knew as I haven't seen him in years, someone who, for lack of better ways to explain it, got hit in the face with a streetcar.
A lot of streetcar stops in Toronto are on islands in the middle of the road, as that's where the streetcars travel.
Usually these are the downtown stops on streets where the lanes are wider.
Well, this guy was at one of the island stops, had his headphones blaring and wasn't paying attention. Looked one way, looked the other way, BAM! Massive reconstructive surgery to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Seriously. Reconstructive surgery, and lots of it.

There is a video on the intarwebs of what happens when you step out in front of a commuter train doing 60 mph down the track.

No, I am not going to post it here; it is extremely graphic.

When I was in Toronto 8 years ago with my family, we took the subway everywhere. We didn't have any problems, we found it to be completely safe. But that certain gang initiation ritual may not have been started yet.