why I dont stand on the curb
When I take the LRT or even cross the street here, I never stand on the corner or at the immediate ledge until the train or traffic has come to a complete stop. So many times I have been passed by people that go right to the curb and then turn and look at me strangely like I am an idiot for standing back a couple of feet. Why do I do it? Simple answer, too many freaks out there. This happened recently and I remember when I was going to the university I read a case of a student that was pushed onto the tracks. Luckily, the student was saved by another person and the 'pusher' was tackled and 'apprehended' (read a few punches and kicks that left him stunned) for police and he was charged. What is it with people that they feel the need to push someone into the path of an oncoming train? Not going to say anything yet about drug debts gone bad or racial rivalry til after this woman's case is heard. Can hardly wait to hear that she has been considered 'mentally unstable', goes into a mental hospital and is released 6 months later 'cured and fit to enter society'.
In the meantime, you can find me standing in the middle of the train platform or at least 4 feet from the curb on the traffic streets wondering how many people around me are 'mentally stable' individuals.
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Suspect in Calgary transit killing arrested
Updated Mon. Aug. 27 2007 7:24 PM ET
Canadian Press
CALGARY -- The woman who allegedly shoved a Calgary teenager into a moving transit train earlier this month is now behind bars and facing murder charges.
Natalie Michelle Pasqua, 25, was arrested in Edmonton over the weekend on unrelated mischief and obstruction charges after giving police a false name.
Once she was identified, Calgary police travelled to the Alberta capital and charged her on Sunday night with second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Gage Jeffrey Prevost.
Calgary police had been searching for Pasqua since Aug. 1 when Prevost was pushed from a crowded train platform during afternoon rush hour and fell in between two moving cars.
The teen died instantly from massive internal injuries after falling into the gap between two moving cars and getting trapped upside down between the train and the platform in front of more than 100 commuters.
Det. John Dooks, with Calgary Police Service's violent crimes section, said Pasqua will make her first appearance on the murder charge on Friday once her other charges have been dealt with in Edmonton.
Police believe Prevost and Pasqua had been arguing just moments before the fatal push, but refused to say what the argument was about "for investigative reasons.''
"They may have been known to each other _ we don't think they were close friends or associates or domestic partners or anything like that,'' Dooks said Monday afternoon.
The area where Prevost died is an area known to be awash in drugs and other street crime.
Dooks wouldn't say if Pasqua made a statement to police before the murder charge was laid.
Police had initially hoped that surveillance cameras on the transit platform would capture what happened but the sheer number of commuters obscured the view.
They ended up soliciting businesses in the area for any video footage taken at the time.
Police believe the woman responsible for killing Prevost escaped immediately after the incident.
The next day they issued a release asking for assistance in finding a the woman whom they described as "dark-skinned, possibly aboriginal, in her mid-20s, with facial scarring'' and wearing tight-fitting pants and a red or pink tank top.
A few days later, a woman fitting the police description was waiting for a train when she was set upon by a group of Prevost's friends who had returned to the station for an impromptu memorial. She hadn't even heard about the crime.
Police took her away from the mob in handcuffs after she was hit and spat upon. They later issued a news release saying she had been questioned and cleared of any involvement in Prevost's death.
In the three weeks before her arrest, Calgary police extended their search for Pasqua to both Regina and Edmonton where she had been known to frequent, as well as the Muskowekwan First Nation near Punnichy, Sask.
Prevost's friends and family held a memorial service Sunday in Charlottetown, P.E.I., where he used to live.
In the meantime, you can find me standing in the middle of the train platform or at least 4 feet from the curb on the traffic streets wondering how many people around me are 'mentally stable' individuals.
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Suspect in Calgary transit killing arrested
Updated Mon. Aug. 27 2007 7:24 PM ET
Canadian Press
CALGARY -- The woman who allegedly shoved a Calgary teenager into a moving transit train earlier this month is now behind bars and facing murder charges.
Natalie Michelle Pasqua, 25, was arrested in Edmonton over the weekend on unrelated mischief and obstruction charges after giving police a false name.
Once she was identified, Calgary police travelled to the Alberta capital and charged her on Sunday night with second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Gage Jeffrey Prevost.
Calgary police had been searching for Pasqua since Aug. 1 when Prevost was pushed from a crowded train platform during afternoon rush hour and fell in between two moving cars.
The teen died instantly from massive internal injuries after falling into the gap between two moving cars and getting trapped upside down between the train and the platform in front of more than 100 commuters.
Det. John Dooks, with Calgary Police Service's violent crimes section, said Pasqua will make her first appearance on the murder charge on Friday once her other charges have been dealt with in Edmonton.
Police believe Prevost and Pasqua had been arguing just moments before the fatal push, but refused to say what the argument was about "for investigative reasons.''
"They may have been known to each other _ we don't think they were close friends or associates or domestic partners or anything like that,'' Dooks said Monday afternoon.
The area where Prevost died is an area known to be awash in drugs and other street crime.
Dooks wouldn't say if Pasqua made a statement to police before the murder charge was laid.
Police had initially hoped that surveillance cameras on the transit platform would capture what happened but the sheer number of commuters obscured the view.
They ended up soliciting businesses in the area for any video footage taken at the time.
Police believe the woman responsible for killing Prevost escaped immediately after the incident.
The next day they issued a release asking for assistance in finding a the woman whom they described as "dark-skinned, possibly aboriginal, in her mid-20s, with facial scarring'' and wearing tight-fitting pants and a red or pink tank top.
A few days later, a woman fitting the police description was waiting for a train when she was set upon by a group of Prevost's friends who had returned to the station for an impromptu memorial. She hadn't even heard about the crime.
Police took her away from the mob in handcuffs after she was hit and spat upon. They later issued a news release saying she had been questioned and cleared of any involvement in Prevost's death.
In the three weeks before her arrest, Calgary police extended their search for Pasqua to both Regina and Edmonton where she had been known to frequent, as well as the Muskowekwan First Nation near Punnichy, Sask.
Prevost's friends and family held a memorial service Sunday in Charlottetown, P.E.I., where he used to live.
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