Don't Stop the Trains
I don't even know what to make of this.
Officials in Botswana are urging citizens to stop committing suicide by train, according to one report. Instead, they're suiciders to "use trees" rather trains:
"If people want to commit suicide, they should use trees, not our trains," the country's minister of works and transport Tebelo Seretse told a Gabarone newspaper, according to The Star in neighbouring South Africa.
"I am sick of these people who throw themselves in front of the trains. The drivers are people - why turn them into murderers?" she was quoted as saying.
Apparently, train drivers are tired of having to remove human body parts from their engines. In fact, the entire thing is so disturbing to train drivers that the Ministry of Transport has started offering counseling to train engineers who have "hit" jumpers.
The original story from the Star can be found here.
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