Teen dies after fall from Berlin U-Bahn train

A 13-year-old boy was killed Monday evening in an accident on Berlin's U-Bahn, police confirmed Tuesday. According to witness accounts, the boy had opened and leaned out the door of the train car.

The accident occurred on the U7 line In the U-Bahn tunnel on Wutzkyallee, according to Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel . The victim's head and shoulder crashed into an iron bar, causing him to fall out of the train into the tracks. The victim later died of severe injuries.

According to a police spokesperson, the boy was accompanied by three peers on the subway. In interviews, the three said they were all sitting in the U-Bahn train when the 13-year-old suddenly opened the doors and leaned out, though they were unable to say why. Police will interview the boy's companions again after they recover from shock, Der Tagesspiegel reported.

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This is indeed a sad tale but it's quite likely it was a bet and it may even have been filmed on a mobile for Youtube. I've seen kids at it on the U8. In this video you can see how dangerous some of the journey could be.

http://www.wittysparks.com/video/2986204414/

I haven't heard of much train surfing in a long time... whatever happened to that?

I do not get it, you need lots of effort to open the door when it is closed, plus you can't do this in a couple of seconds, why no one stopped the boy?

The kids on the U8 do it in groups. Two pull the doors open on either side and the third climbs out while the fourth films it.

Many options. Nobody was sitting close enough to notice what they were doing. Nobody cared. Nobody wanted to get involved with a group of sassy kids who probably would have told them to fuck off anyway.

The kid was together with 3 adults.

If stupid kids try to open a door when the train is moving I will ring the emergency alarm for sure.

Edit: It says 3 "peers", so probably no adults and maybe the were involved in the whole thing. So yes, you are probably right.

Here's the sort of thing that people try to copy for street cred.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNhbMsnKi0w...feature=related

They have nothing to lose.

now this is the sort of story they need to publicize the shit out of.

I don't remember acting such an ass on public transit when I was that age, but maybe that's because I grew up in a bus-town--fuck around too much and the bus driver will surely come take care of it.

I also come from a place where people will indeed speak up to stop a kid or even a group of kids from acting a motherfucking ass and mishandling public property.

The way some of these kids act on the train is appalling. When you're already a little bit behind schedule and they keep the door open at the station for shits and giggles and they don't give a shit who they are inconveniencing--disgraceful. Don't they have parents?

As with those super disgusting full-color photos on the packs of Canadian cigarettes, they should post very graphic images of people being decapitated, having their torsos ripped off, etc. while acting an ass on the train. But will that make the kids think twice, or will it just increase the appeal of dodging death?

huh.

I doubt they do this when their parents are present.

They do, however, have raging testosterone and perhaps alcohol/drugs in their systems as well. Not a good mix.

Well they do have parents but they have really nothing to lose nor do the parents apart from some child assistance from the state. They have no job potential, no respect for anything apart from rule of the gun, violence, rubbish rap music and who's selling the drugs. I would be happy to see a poster campaign promoting this kind of lemming act. A slogan like, 'Just Jump'!
What about, 'Spring Doch'. It would save the system a lot of effort and money as well as making the general public's life a bit better at the end of the day.

I like the usage of 'peers' and 'companions'. How quaint.

Genius idea, Hal - promote teen suicide. That will solve everything.

Lots of conclusions you are jumping to there. All kids misbehave and fuck about, not just rap-music fan, drug taking kids with parents who only gave birth to them for increased social security payments. I'd actually quite like to know exactly what drugs you think would make somebody think it was a "laugh" to open a train door whilst moving and stick his head out. I can only think of one, alcohol. Not sure that rap-music has that particular effect on people either come to think of it. I've certainly never heard Dr Dre or Tupac mention sticking their head out of a train door.

Yep hard to do a drive by from the U5.

Well they did in a metaphorical sense but that is another debate. Have you ever listened to s*itheads like Bushido?

@perdido

Well if it's the closest you get to a drive by in your life I suppose that's the life you have. I reminded of a poem which has a line, 'If you can keep your head when all around are losing their's...'