# Hypothetical: Man raped, wife and child stabbed, rapist becomes pregnant, faces death penalty

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**Created:** [October 19, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-man-raped-wife-and-child-stabbed-rapist-becomes-pregnant-faces-death-penalty/923355 "2020-10-19T20:47:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
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> [@Max\_S](#):
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> The trolley problem comes to mind, and if I remember correctly it did eventually happen sometime in 2003.

Really? Could you point to the actual incident because I’d be curious how that played out in real life.

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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-man-raped-wife-and-child-stabbed-rapist-becomes-pregnant-faces-death-penalty/923355/62 "2020-10-29T18:19:46Z")

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> **[Runaway Train Jumps Tracks in Commerce](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-21-me-train21-story.html)**
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> Freight cars are derailed as they sped toward downtown Los Angeles. Twelve people are hurt and several houses are damaged or destroyed.

> “This was our last opportunity to stop it,” said Union Pacific spokesman John Bromley. “We knew there were other trains downtown. If it hit other trains or had gone into the downtown area, that was not something we could contemplate.”
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> Bromley said railroad officials were aware that switching the speeding train to another track would likely cause it to derail.
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> “We didn’t know it was going to crash into houses, though,” Bromley said.

Miraculously, nobody died.

~Max

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