Paypal vice president was standing on train tracks. killed.

[Liberal_in_LA]

Man hit, killed by Caltrain in Menlo Park IDd

A man who was struck and killed by a Caltrain last week was identified Sunday by the San Mateo County coroner as Eric Salvatierra of Palo Alto.

Salvatierra, 39, was a vice president of online payment service PayPal. He had been with the company for about five years.

He was standing on the tracks near Ravenswood Avenue in Menlo Park at 9:30 a.m. Friday when he was hit by a northbound train, according to Caltrain officials.

His death is under investigation.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/11/BANI1NJBCP.DTL#ixzz1ovZhvhL6

[freshwest]

1. It's a conspiracy!

[Owlet]

5. probably completely irrelevant but

PayPal's founder, Peter Thiel, was recently revealed as the main contributor to Ron Paul's super-pac. Thiel's current venture is Palantir Technologies, a software company with strong ties to the US intelligence community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

[freshwest]

7. Interesting. But every RW death from now on out, since Breitbart, is Obama's fault.

I wonder if the Paulies or the Mormons will claim victimhood from this one.

Or if Sheriff Joe will get involved.

Pretty sure that Alex Jones will cry foul.

Thanks very much for the data, Owlet, more connections.

[11 Bravo]

9. The Paulites will insist that his family hose off the tracks, and the Mormons will just baptize him.

[Aerows]

10. Palantir

got destroyed when Aaron Barr was taken down. They deserved it, too. They were a bunch of people plotting to turn social media into a right wing and propaganda playground.

[JNelson6563]

2. I wonder what that's about.

Condolences to his loved ones, they must be in shock.

Julie

[frogmarch]

3. How awful! His

friends and family must be horrified along with being saddened.

When my husband was a rr engineer his train hit and killed someone. It was terrible, and my husband still has flashbacks of the incident.

[catrose]

4. How awful for him

My cousin committed suicide by train. Obviously she was beyond thinking about the effect on her daughters, whom she told that she was taking the daily walk the doctor prescribed, much less the strangers driving the train, but I've always thought about them, how helpless they must have felt.

[frogmarch]

6. Oh, no. So sorry about

your cousin. People who take their own lives, regardless of how they do it, are often deeply depressed and/or are desperate for a way out of a difficult situation. We have no suicide-by-train people in our family, but two of one my daughter-in-law's siblings killed themselves because their church made them feel worthless and evil for being homosexuals. One of them, a lesbian, shot herself in the head on the eve of her wedding to a man. Her brother, a gay man, intentionally overdosed on aspirin.

My husband hit nine vehicles altogether when engineering trains, but only one person died. Several of the vehicle drivers were trying to race his train with "chicky runs" at crossings. Stupid people.

[marlakay]

8. My husband is a retired train driver

He said they have a emergency button to stop the train, but it stops slowly because if it stopped too fast you could kill lots of people on the train. It didn't happen to him but a few of his friends had to watch in slow motion people committing suicide, some would never be able to work again.

[songtu]

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