I  seriously need to stop procrastinating, but I was reading this person's blog and she was recounting this whole hiking accident/search and rescue thing she witnessed which reminded me somehow about what happened on Monday.

So on Monday, some people and I were taking the U-Bahn back to Haus Erasmus after the German placement exam. For some reason unknown to us, the train stopped at the stop right before ours and everyone was ordered to get off. We thought that maybe the train had mechanical issues or something. Maybe they explained something but obviously it was in super fast German... which doesn't help much. We were confused and just decided to walk back since it wasn't that far anyway. When we came to the stop where we normally get off, we saw a ton of commotion. There were police cars everywhere and some ambulances. Also, the station is kind of open so you can look down and see the train tracks. Tons of people were crowded around the side looking down, and police officers were going around shooing people away. Since it's hard to resist looking at things that people clearly don't want you to look it, we went to a section where there were no police officers and tried to figure out what was going on. We began speculating that maybe someone had tried to commit suicide/jumped into the train tracks. Of course, we looked and we couldn't see anything besides some officers and a stretcher. Other people were coming, gesturing at the train/tracks and donning gloves, which was kind of creepy.

Today, I finally remembered that I wanted to check the Austrian newspapers to see what happened. Apparently, our speculations were accurate(ish). An unidentified man fell (or jumped...) in the tracks and was hit by the train. He was killed.