Posted on 03/20/2013 10:10:44 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Girl, 16, found dead on train tracks next to her best friend, 18, was 'in a dark place' after break-up with her girlfriend
Two teenagers have been found dead side-by-side on train tracks after one of the girls was 'in a dark place' following a recent break up with her long-time girlfriend.
Arielle Troutman, 16, and Hannah Rigley, 18, were found dead beneath a train on the edge of the McAlpine Creek Greenway in Charlotte, North Carolina early on Sunday morning.
The train driver had seen them apparently sleeping on the track, sounded his bell and pulled his emergency brake, but could not stop the train in time, and they were found dead beneath it.
But an autopsy is still pending, with authorities questioning whether the girls actually died of drugs overdoses or sudden death syndrome before they were hit.
Arielle's father, Jamie Troutman, has told the Charlotte Observer that he has yet to hear the cause of death from the police or the Mecklenburg Medical Examiner’s Office.
Yet he told the paper he is certain that his daughter, whom he described as 'goth-y', had been struggling with a recent break up.
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...sigh ....indeed
very sad
I think what they mean is, if they were conscious, they probably were “scared to death” before they were hit by the train. I imagine they would only mention that if they knew it was a common occurrence for people that got hit by trains.
Sometime articles from the Mail Online are so long I can’t post them at the top but have to crop them. I always post the ‘full title’ at the beginning of each article in the main part.
yes, and it’s not just disfiguring one’s self
it’s an attack on the Imago Dei
Who was the “girlfriend?” Was it the 18 year old, or a 3rd person?
A pathetic sick child.
When your kids start this Goth crap and piercings it is time to get themn to a shrink.
A good spanking earlier on may have helped.
No, no.. My point is that the title leads you to believe that only the 16 year old is dead.
Not AFTER but BEFORE they were hit?
Neither one named ‘Pauline’, eh?
I think it also shows that you don’t love yourself, so the love your neighbor as thyself is lost.
I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and speculate that it's because the one that was newsworthy was only so because she just broke up with her "girlfriend."
Ayup. A few movies dealt with nose rings/lip rings being pulled through the skin as a way of getting someone to talk (The Punisher - 2004) comes to mind.
those facial piercings make me ill....I won’t visit a store or restaurant where this stuff is allowed.....its ugly...
Don't. You'll likely catch something. I always think crusty buggers and dripping snot.
Yeah, let's go with a double sudden death syndrome for two young people in the middle of a train track. I don't know who has less sense, the girls or the coroner.
Actually, I was refering to the Elton John song. (apologies to Mr. Cooper)
This wasn’t in Mina, Arkansas was it? Clintons involved?
Only joking...sorta kinda.
16 year old with”long time” lesbian relationship? Where the hell were these parents?
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