How do people get accidentally hit by trains? You might ask - cause, you know, you can see them coming from a mile away. Not always. This video is an example of just how fast and quiet a train can come up on you, and how the engineer really cant do anything but blow his [...]

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One Greenwich Plaza, part of an 2-building office complex adjacent to the Greenwich Metro-North Train Station, was evacuated yesterday when a package broke open in a mail room and a suspicious powder came out, contaminating a mail room worker’s hands.
The Stamford Bomb Squad and FBI were called in to remove the package and investigate. Test [...]

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Smoke and fumes from a burning escalator motor at the subway station at 53rd and 7th Ave (B, D, E Lines) caused several people to go to the hospital for respiratory problems yesterday morning, and the station was evacuated.
A food cart vendor near the station entrance reported seeing 10-15 people running out of the station [...]

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This amateur video shows an amazing explosion and preceding shock wave from a giant propane tank explosion in Toronto early Sunday.

A firefighter was killed during the blaze, and an unidentified body was found at the site Monday.
Here is another view of the large explosion (at 1:50 into this video) - the video is much farther [...]

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There is a new game in town, and I’m going to predict this now: someone is definitely going to get killed doing this. Kids are jumping from one train platform to the other at single-track stations. Its insane.
Obviously one could easily break a leg, get electrocuted, killed by a passing train - or all three [...]

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Update: Spyros, the guy in the photo who was hit by the ball, tells StationStops:
“I have never been treated so horrible in my life by the Mets staff.  They yelled at me for bleeding all over the medical offices in shea and basically treated me like I stole something.  I asked for a new t [...]

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Here is the video released by Hartford Police of the 78-year-old man who was violently thrown into the air in a hit and run accident.
There has been a lot of shocking public reaction at the video, in that no one seems to help the man and traffic actually drives around him without stopping.
Luckily an officer [...]

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