Last Thursday morning when I was at the Norwalk Metrolink Station, waiting for my train, I saw something one doesn’t often see at train stations: There was a line of blood spots leading toward the ticket machine from some 30 feet away, and getting apparently fresher as they approached the machine. I just called Metrolink and the Norwalk Sheriff’s Station; neither knew anything about it. It’s mistifying to me.
I’m just speculating, but my guess would be that somebody who was bleeding wanted a ticket.
Last-minute-shaving accident. (You know how you’re not supposed to run while carrying scissors? Well, the same is true of razors.)
My brother once cut himself carrying a metal wood stove pipe and was bleeding pretty bad through the Boston subway system.
That must have scared quite a few passengers. :eek:
Someone had a nosebleed, most likely.
And the trail of blood just stopped at the ticket machine? That means the person used his ticket to stop the bleeding.
No, the reason the bleeding stopped is that the person was abducted by aliens at the ticket machine. Or he/she ascended directly to heaven from there. Take your pick.
Red dye #2, a sense of humor, and a gullible audience.
It’s possible someone was bleeding and didn’t realize it until he got to the station where the attendant pointed out “Hey, you’re bleeding” at which point the person applied pressure with a tissue or whatever and thus stopped leaving a trail.
Had a customer at my store once who was on blood thinners and left a very impressive trail from the parking lot through a section of the store. Had acquired a small slash from some sharp bit while exiting a car which just kept on going, despite the minor nature of the wound, for an impressive amount of time. Could have been something like that. A lot of folks are on blood thinners these days.
My wife, her mother, and one of my sons all have been afflicted with spontaneous nosebleeds at various times throughout their lives. Some of them have been real gushers.
Note: No trace of blood on the ticket machine itself.
The transit authority is getting tough on fare jumpers?
Perhaps the contents of someone’s luggage dripped through the zipper while rolling across the station, until eventually those contents shifted in some way.
I also vote for a nosebleed. I used to get them all the time in the dry air of Arizona. The only time I noticed was when someone pointed it out, or when I looked down and noticed the blood. Getting my card out to use at a machine would have made me look down. Blood would have been noticed and tissues would have been pulled out of my purse.
The ticket machine sensed the blood, became hungry, and inhaled the person.
Pirates!
Ninjas!
I remember an episode of Emergency! in which the fire crew arrived at an accident scene. Two cars had collided; no people! The few onlookers they could find said they hadn’t seen anyone. Captain Stanley called dispatch to report on accident victim(s) having left the scene. Johnny and Roy followed a trail of blood spots which suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere. Chet later attributed it to a UFO abduction, which Johnny said was more logical than two injured accident victims wandering around!
Not if they had stolen the cars and downed a few six-packs. Wandering around is exactly what they would do.