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Darwin is Looking for Confirmation.
(New York) "My father works as an investigator for an insurance company, a
job he frequently reminds me of how much he hates. One of his major clients
is a train station. On a day not unlike any other, a man awoke on a train
to find that he had missed his stop. Instead of looking out the window, or
asking another passenger where the train was, he ripped open the doors of
the train and threw himself through them, much to the astonishment of
onlooking passengers.
"Had the ill-fated passenger taken the time to look out the window before
leaping off the train, he would have noticed that it was moving in excess
of 50 MPH, and it was also moving over a bridge. "Look before you
leap." He died at the scene in the Hudson River.
"My father investigated this case for the insurance company. The family of
the deceased was suing because 'you should not be able to open doors on a
moving train.' My dad's defense was, 'you should not open doors on a
moving train.' I imagine the case was either dropped or settled."
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