The family unintentionally memorialized the facebook account of an impostor. This significantly added to earlier confusion.
Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
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Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was shadowbanned here. So maybe the black bar is shadow banned. Towards the end he said some racist nazi shit. Hard for people to accept that was a symptom of his mental decline. Hard to be tollerant about that. I first discovered him circa 2006 when the OS was called LoseThos. I prefer to remember him from those days when he provided this community with such a breath of fresh air- rather than during his end days.…
>racist nazi Just an fyi, there is a large conspiracy basically stating that he was "made" this way by internet trolling. Similar to the outcome of "Chris Chan". Terry in many cases showed great fondness over several popular internet/youtube girls to which end he would live stream himself trying to email and make contact with them. And to this, trolls would spoof a response email somewhere along the line of "I only d…
This is the saddest thing I've seen all year, easily worse than any gore video. I can't believe this is real.
Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#33I don't think it's really fair to characterize his death as a suicide. Given the nature of Terry's illness, he may have been unaware of what was going on at the time of his death. The police report just sounds strange. We'll never know what he was feeling that night. It's so sad that he's gone.
These were my first thoughts too. Even in otherwise (mentally) healthy people such accidents happen with some regularity but with the history of this particular illness afflicting him and the nature of the incident (walking away and then turning back before impact) makes the police's statement sounds dismissive and reckless at best and a coverup for the train company and/or avoidance of some significant workload (inv…
I once saw an young man with some sort of psychosis so distracted that he walked into traffic at 5th and Folsom. And didn't realize it until he was halfway across.
Other hand a friend of mine with psychosis threw himself in front of a BART train.
Also with a train there nothing to engineer can do since the coefficient of friction between the steel wheels and track is like 0.05 vs close to 1.0 for rubber and asphalt. The engineer can't stop the train in time. These accidents take a bad toll on train engineers.
Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#34https://pastebin.com/MtswwMSB
Thank you :)
Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was shadowbanned here. So maybe the black bar is shadow banned. Towards the end he said some racist nazi shit. Hard for people to accept that was a symptom of his mental decline. Hard to be tollerant about that. I first discovered him circa 2006 when the OS was called LoseThos. I prefer to remember him from those days when he provided this community with such a breath of fresh air- rather than during his end days.…
>racist nazi Just an fyi, there is a large conspiracy basically stating that he was "made" this way by internet trolling. Similar to the outcome of "Chris Chan". Terry in many cases showed great fondness over several popular internet/youtube girls to which end he would live stream himself trying to email and make contact with them. And to this, trolls would spoof a response email somewhere along the line of "I only d…
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Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#36That's so sad. Although he is not a person I'd like to meet in person, his TempleOS was something ordinary person can't write it.
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#37Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#38I don't think it's really fair to characterize his death as a suicide. Given the nature of Terry's illness, he may have been unaware of what was going on at the time of his death. The police report just sounds strange. We'll never know what he was feeling that night. It's so sad that he's gone.
These were my first thoughts too. Even in otherwise (mentally) healthy people such accidents happen with some regularity but with the history of this particular illness afflicting him and the nature of the incident (walking away and then turning back before impact) makes the police's statement sounds dismissive and reckless at best and a coverup for the train company and/or avoidance of some significant workload (inv…
Have you ever actually been on a train? They don't exactly stop on a dime.
Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#39To everyone who reads this on the Peninsula, this number should be in your phone's address book: +1 (877) 723-7245. That is the number for Caltrain Transit Police. To everyone who reads this in the City, this number should be in your phone's address book: +1 (415) 553-8090. That is the number for SFPD Dispatch. To everyone who reads this in the City, or the East Bay, this number should be in your phone's address book…
Isn't this just a feel-good post?
I have no clue what you expect to do with police phone number to prevent train suicide. People don't just camp out on the track for an hour before the train comes. It's a last second ordeal.
Re: Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
#40To everyone who reads this on the Peninsula, this number should be in your phone's address book: +1 (877) 723-7245. That is the number for Caltrain Transit Police. To everyone who reads this in the City, this number should be in your phone's address book: +1 (415) 553-8090. That is the number for SFPD Dispatch. To everyone who reads this in the City, or the East Bay, this number should be in your phone's address book…
Isn't this just a feel-good post? I have no clue what you expect to do with police phone number to prevent train suicide. People don't just camp out on the track for an hour before the train comes. It's a last second ordeal.
From the article:
"According to a police report on the death, on the evening of Aug. 11, Davis was walking along the railroad tracks, with his back to an oncoming train, when he turned and faced the train before it hit him. The train engineer considered it a suicide, according to the report."
In this incident at least, there might have been enough time to halt trains on that section of the tracks until police arrived. There are signals beside the track and radios in the driver's compartment. This happens semi-regularly in my city. The train operator will come on the PA and announce that we are standing while police attend to a person on the tracks at the next station.