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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

Mad in America

Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras. Nearly a dozen Palo Alto teens died this way. Finally, the City of Palo Alto put a security guard there. The guard succeeded in wrestling some 18 more teens off of the tracks. It was terrible when the kids died.