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Rail Tragedy: Bloggers' Point of View

By  Jason Toney
Published Jan 26, 2005 11:00 PM
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We don't mean to be all Metrolink derailment all the time but LA Blogs has been doing a great job of pulling together the blog posts about the incident. They've been slow to trickle in so far but we were struck by Be Frank, who was on the scene to take pictures.

He writes:


Even though I know life isn't meant to be "fair", I just believe that the people on that train deserved better. It's horrible to think they were killed and never knew what was coming. They were in a perfectly safe environment. They weren't in a bad neighborhood or doing something anyone would consider risky.

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