# All aboard! Train to hell leaving now! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914 "2009-07-22T22:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/1 "2009-07-22T22:06:32Z")
If you don’t have a sick sense of humor, please just walk on by… [Apropos of nuthin’ …](http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl072209tprwestwegoupdate.6733c015.html) You know, anything can be funny if you look at it just right. Horrible tragedy aside, I just can’t stop giggling. ---
**Author:** ![Nation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@Nation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nation)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/2 "2009-07-22T22:09:41Z")
.,…, ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/3 "2009-07-22T22:14:03Z")
**Inigo Montoya** –what’s the point of this post? \ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/4 "2009-07-22T22:15:32Z")
I’m sorry. The police chief in the story. And…"“It hurts, it feels like a piece of me is gone " ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/5 "2009-07-22T22:36:36Z")
Huh?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sealemon2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/6 "2009-07-22T23:17:23Z")
I remember a newspaper story from years ago about a high school soccer playerwho had died (can’t remember cause of death). They held his funeral on the high school football field and several of his teamamtes decided to hand a wreath on one of the goalposts. The weight of the teammates climbing the post caused it to fall over, crushing several of them to death. I know i’m going to hell, but to this day I find that kind of funny. As far as the OP, I don’t see the humor. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/7 "2009-07-22T23:48:57Z")
I usually have a very sick sense of humor. But in this case . . . no. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/8 "2009-07-22T23:51:50Z")
Actually, I found that to be incredibly sad- a baby bled to death after being chewed on by rats. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/9 "2009-07-22T23:54:51Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Huh?😕 I didn’t catch it at first, either. A little girl bled to death after having been bitten mutliple times by a rat. The rat bit off a piece of the girl’s nose and a piece of her leg. The cop quoted in the story is called Munch, and the little girl’s dad feels like he’s missing a piece of himself. I gotta admit, I chuckled. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/10 "2009-07-23T00:02:54Z")
Sick, yes; funny, no. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/11 "2009-07-23T00:08:00Z")
Come the fuck on, you guys have to be kidding me. The cop quoted in a story about a person being bitten to death is called _Munch_. That’s funny. When y’all are done with your wake for the little PWT girl you never knew and never would have heard of had it not been for this story, you can get a fucking sense of humor and laugh at this in the abstract. Bitten to death + Officer Munch = giggle. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/12 "2009-07-23T00:08:21Z")
At least no one named Willard or Ben was involved. ---
**Author:** ![supergoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/13 "2009-07-23T01:25:01Z")
I have my doubts the baby was alive when the rats started…partaking. Like it says in the article, the baby would be flailing and squirming and probably scare the rats off, and it would be screaming bloody murder (sorry) from the pain. Surely its parents would have checked on it in that case. I think the baby had to have either been really ill or dead already. (Although, the dead don’t bleed copious amounts since the heart stops pumping, right? I don’t know. I’m inclined to chalk it up to “dead baby, rats behaving like rats” or “horrible parents, letting baby scream to death or die of severe illness, rats behaving like rats”. Not “rats gone mad eating live babies in their cribs” like the article suggests. Opinions or additional information, anyone?) ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/14 "2009-07-23T02:07:46Z")
I didn’t see what was so funny about the officer being named “Munch”. That is, I can sort of see how it’d be funny, but when I saw the headline and the picture of the grieving mother, and scanned the article, I didn’t even notice the officer’s name. What did strike me as incongruous (and funny in an ironic way) was the over the top official autopsy write-up for cause of death: _exsanguination due to destruction of soft tissue secondary to murine activity._ “Huh?” “Rodents gnawed on her enough that she bled to death.” “Ewww! How awful!” "Yes, that’s why we in the business have to write things like “exsanguination” and “murine activity”. Which leaves room, you see, that it might have been a friendly game of football (the annual classic intramurine rivalry of _Rats vs. Mice_) that took an accidental and horrible turn when she walked into the middle of it… ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/15 "2009-07-23T14:39:04Z")
[Munch?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Munch) ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/16 "2009-07-23T20:51:35Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > “Huh?” > “Rodents gnawed on her enough that she bled to death.” > “Ewww! How awful!” > "Yes, that’s why we in the business have to write things like “exsanguination” and “murine activity”. Which leaves room, you see, that it might have been a friendly game of football (the annual classic intramurine rivalry of _Rats vs. Mice_) that took an accidental and horrible turn when she walked into the middle of it… Aaaaannnd now I’m going to Hell. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/17 "2009-07-23T22:14:25Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > I didn’t see what was so funny about the officer being named “Munch”. That is, I can sort of see how it’d be funny, but when I saw the headline and the picture of the grieving mother, and scanned the article, I didn’t even notice the officer’s name. > > What did strike me as incongruous (and funny in an ironic way) was the over the top official autopsy write-up for cause of death: _exsanguination due to destruction of soft tissue secondary to murine activity._ > > “Huh?” > “Rodents gnawed on her enough that she bled to death.” > “Ewww! How awful!” > "Yes, that’s why we in the business have to write things like “exsanguination” and “murine activity”. Which leaves room, you see, that it might have been a friendly game of football (the annual classic intramurine rivalry of _Rats vs. Mice_) that took an accidental and horrible turn when she walked into the middle of it… Nice thread save. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/18 "2009-07-23T23:53:36Z")
Leave it to me to laugh at something other than teh funnie. ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/19 "2009-07-24T00:59:19Z")
…like the law and order shows… you never know what floats suimt boats… ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914/20 "2009-08-01T19:38:41Z")
I thought the story was heartbreaking, but I can see the point about inadvertent irony, if it’s irony. I didn’t think the ad next to the story [worked](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i285/savannah_sobriquet/badad.jpg). Seriously? A furry rodent-like thing? “Think you can help our furry friend out?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-aboard-train-to-hell-leaving-now/503914.md?page=2)