# Blood at the train station: what could have happened? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801 "2016-06-19T18:32:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801/21 "2016-06-20T05:20:38Z")
Well, the cars involved were there when Station 51 people arrived–but the people who had been in the cars were not! It’s as if the injured people vanished from the face of the earth. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801/22 "2016-06-20T05:27:58Z")
So, no IV with ringer’s lactate? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801/23 "2016-06-20T06:02:13Z")
Was Megyn Kelly in town? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801/24 "2016-06-20T10:44:31Z")
He was buying a ticket for the Vampire Express. It meets the Werewolf Line at Transylvania Station, Track 29. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801/25 "2016-06-20T11:08:04Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And the trail of blood just stopped at the ticket machine? That means the person used his ticket to stop the bleeding. I thought this was common knowledge. The paper used to print train tickets contains, quite by accident, a substance called clotollamine sulfate, a naturally occurring coagulant. Bus tickets are totally dissimilar, and have an anticoagulant effect for reasons yet to be elucidated. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801/26 "2016-06-20T13:41:38Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > So, no IV with ringer’s lactate? Nope. No victims present, so nobody to render medical treatment to. In 1980 KTLA TV ran the Emergency! episodes in Los Angeles. The technology at the time being what it was, I set up a cassette player to record the sound, and added spoken commentary as needed. And I gave my own titles to the episodes, since the official titles were not given on the air. I titled this one “A Waste of Time, Again.”. I also wrote a list of each episode’s incidents on the index card that was in the cassette box. This procedure made it possible for me to listen to the episodes even in the car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blood-at-the-train-station-what-could-have-happened/757801.md?page=1)