Human body parts discovered in cracked nose of Japanese bullet train

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Bottom line: Government ministers in Japan are calling for an investigation into an incident that saw a high-speed bullet train traveling to Tokyo hit and kill a man who had entered the tracks. The apparent suicide wasn’t discovered until authorities found human body parts inside a crack in the train’s nose, some 20 miles from where the collision took place.

Japan’s Transport and Tourism Minister, Keiichi Ishii, has ordered the West Japan Railway Company to look into why the driver never reported hearing an unusual sound on June 14. The train operator said he did hear a strange noise when the train was in the tunnel but assumed it had hit an animal. Believing there was no threat to passengers, he decided a safety inspection wasn't necessary and failed to follow procedure by not sending a report to the ops center, reports the Japan Times.

After another driver noticed a huge crack in the nose of the train and reported it to operations, the center ordered the 700-series to make an emergency stop.

Police investigated the damage at the Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. They discovered body parts inside the crack, and later found more in an area near a tunnel in the city of Kitakyushu. An empty minivan was parked at a nearby road. Police later confirmed it belonged to a 52-year-old caregiver from Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture. Police matched his fingerprints from the body parts found in the nose of the train.

“The driver decided on his own that the case didn’t apply to things that must be reported,” a Fukuoka branch official told The Asahi Shimbun. “That’s the point we should examine.”

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Failure to report a possible incident, well the operator needs to be Fired which will happen soon due to his negligence.
 
Notice how they only mention finding body parts, not a body. A few thousands tonnes moving at 200mph isn't going leave a body, just a very elongated smear, accuentuated with whatever bits flew off on impact.
 
Notice how they only mention finding body parts, not a body. A few thousands tonnes moving at 200mph isn't going leave a body, just a very elongated smear, accuentuated with whatever bits flew off on impact.
Like a bug on a windshield
 
If you go strictly by what's in the media you'd think the Japanese always go for the most violent suicides possible. It wouldn't surprise me at all to read about a guy riding a dump truck full of dynamite off the top of Mt. Fuji.
 
If you go strictly by what's in the media you'd think the Japanese always go for the most violent suicides possible. It wouldn't surprise me at all to read about a guy riding a dump truck full of dynamite off the top of Mt. Fuji.
They normally kill themselves before they get to the top
 
If you go strictly by what's in the media you'd think the Japanese always go for the most violent suicides possible. It wouldn't surprise me at all to read about a guy riding a dump truck full of dynamite off the top of Mt. Fuji.

I'm waiting for the day a guy spends $10,000 on premium sushi, stuffs it in his pants, then feeds himself to sharks in the Pacific.
 
I'm waiting for the day a guy spends $10,000 on premium sushi, stuffs it in his pants, then feeds himself to sharks in the Pacific.
Wouldn't it be easier to just collect all the discarded blowfish bladders, put them in a blender, cook the mess up in a spoon, and mainline it on the emperor's doorstep?

The papers would go wild about the neurotoxin addiction epidemic sweeping the nation's youth
 
"Bullet train locomotives, now available in suppository".

"The instant the train hit, the man recovered from his, "paranoid delusions of Superman-hood"

"Sadly, his minivan will have to be put down, now that its owner is deceased"

I thought locomotives were only allowed to catch cows, and didn't prey on humans....:confused:...

"Guns don't kill, bullet trains do"!
 
As large and as fast as a bullet train, I don't think auto vs manual matters as far as safety. Neither one will stop on a dime, so a collision is inevitable should anything get in the way.
Still, at the very least, the man and the locomotive should have been given a liberal application of these:

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The first thing I thought of when reading the article is that they will need to use proper steel on the front of the train instead of whatever lightweight polycarbon it looks like. You can't be letting one misguided fool be putting a valuable train out of commission for repairs. Get it back on the tracks - there are lots more people waiting to be mowed down. Tick tock.
 
Failure to report a possible incident, well the operator needs to be Fired which will happen soon due to his negligence.
Why fired? The operators decision to report or not had no bearing on the fact that someone committed suicide. The death was not the operators fault.
 
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