Comments for Craig Lawton's Blog

Comment on Apollo Bay by Matt Gillard

Matt Gillard — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:33:10 +0000

Awesome man. Hope your having fun… nice weather for it.

You gotta love your iPhone!

Comment on Bluetooth Beard by Mark

Mark — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:12:25 +0000

I must have picked up his signal with my bluetooth sideburn headset. Do I need a holiday too or is it that your thought was like the butterfly flapping its wings in China, and I got the tidal wave? Um reading back, I agree with your thought I need a holiday too….

Comment on Scooter by glub

glub — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:29:58 +0000

Thinks: “hmm – the gloves are inside out – so I just swap them to the other hand and it kinda works – a bit hard to get on though …”

but really – nice little machine CCL!!

Comment on Suicide at Glenferrie station? by nameless-swinburne-student

nameless-swinburne-student — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:34:45 +0000

Holy shit,
It was the timecube guy? And also, it was a male?
I spoke to a few of the passengers while I was there and they said it was a teenaged girl?
I don’t know, conflicting opinions.
But yes, respect must go out to timecube guy, he was a unique, misunderstood individual with obvious mental issues that a lot of people kind of indicated and never addressed.

Comment on Suicide at Glenferrie station? by Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:27:54 +0000

Craig,

The edits are perfectly fine. You did preserve the content very well. Thank you for blogging about this as otherwise I might not have found out much of what had happened to my friend and how he ended his life.

Comment on Suicide at Glenferrie station? by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:47:44 +0000

So is my previous comment going to be approved? If it has any parts of too much personal info, you can edit it out. But I wanted at least the backstory to be available so that others could know what happened and why. This person has an important and spectacular story.

Comment on Suicide at Glenferrie station? by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:11:24 +0000

Hello,

I think I know the individual who committed suicide. I have been looking everywhere for more information on his passing, and it looks like I found it here on this blog finally. I saw in the comments a request for more info, so I hope you don’t mind if I share a bit with you.

He was a young male student at Swinburne. He had some apparent mental issues, but he was harmless, creative, intelligent, and had great passion and energy for his interests. He was a believer and follower (likely the only one) of a crackpot theory called “Timecube,” until recently.

He suffered a rejection recently and it was apparently was too much for him, and as a result he quit following Timecube. He seemed to have dipped into Christianity for a couple weeks (BIG mistake if you ask me) and then disappeared from the Internet altogether around February 9th.

Then on the 14th of February I heard through the grapevine that he had taken his own life, but no other details. This didn’t seem like something he would do, and at first I didn’t believe it. I thought he had faked his own death. After much searching and calling I finally found some details… a friend of his from Melbourne told me that he stepped in front of a train. With that information I eventually found this blog post that I am now commenting on.

I am devastated that this happened. I live in the United States and only knew him through the Internet, but I know enough to say for certain that this young man was bright, motivated, and full of life. He had passion for his interests. Although he was depressed over the falling out with “Timecube”, he hadn’t expressed anything that indicated a wish to die; that’s why I didn’t believe it when I first heard it… it just didn’t sound like something he would do. But unless two Swinburne students stepped in front of two trains on the same day, this must be him.

He had a large body of work that he had published online, which I am now trying to preserve and archive as a remembrance or memorial of sorts. Although he had trouble fitting in among his peers, he is nevertheless known worldwide. He will be missed by many people across the globe, from Europe to America and of course Australia.

I hope this helps you understand a bit more about why this happened. I am still trying to make sense of it all myself. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Craig: I made some edits to this but tried to preserve the content as best as possible.

Comment on Suicide at Glenferrie station? by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:36:22 +0000

For future reference, it was not a girl or a child, it was an adult male, my friend said he saw him crying on the platform before hand and had left to get something from a shop and when he got back to the station the incident had already happened.
I was having coffee right next to the station as it happened and I was unaware of anything until I got home.

Comment on Suicide at Glenferrie station? by Jen

Jen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:27:31 +0000

I am a Deaf person. I just had a job interview and was feeling great. I arrived at Richmond station and got off to change trains to go on the Alamein line. While I stood there, I watched the TVs which announced which stations were next. One for Belgrave was announced, but changed to Glen Waverly. I waited half an hour before giving up and deciding to catch a tram. When I got out, the street was packed with people, and there was a tram full of people and it wasn’t moving. I went up to the station-master to ask what was going on. They told me to catch a train. When I told them there were no trains (this was all in writing, by the way), they said to catch a tram, when I explained the trams weren’t moving at the time they said ‘You just have to wait.’

I was really upset with how they handled the situation and the fact that they weren’t helpful in the least. I ended up walking 7.5km home. At no time was it explained that trains were cancelled, or what was going on. Neither did they say anything about replacement buses or trams.

Comment on Suicide at Glenferrie station? by Bianca

Bianca — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:24:45 +0000

I arrived soon after the incident. I got there as the cops went up onto the platform I think. I asked one woman and she was totally cruel and sarcastic about it, “You can take a lucky guess.”.

This is so confusing. No one knows anything for sure. No one at the station would tell us. But you could see something under the end of the train. It was horrible.

I called my friend to find out how to get home, but ended up catching two trams and a train. Both totally PACKED beyond belief, with another friend from the TAFE.

I don’t believe that suicides should be reported in the news, but i do think that it’s only fair that some form of news be published stating that there was an incident, or accident, at Glenferrie station, at this time, on this day, and that’s why the trains were held up.
Otherwise rumours just keep spreading.

The buses to replace the trains were going to take an HOUR just to get to Glenferrie.
That is so not good organisation.

There should definately be something in the news, or at least an email for swinburne students about it. I mean there was over a hundred people on the platform when I got there.

Rumours were originally that it was a dog, then a student who’d committed suicide, then right before my friend and I got on the tram we heard it was a ten year old boy playing on the tracks. which is virtually impossible. Anyone that knows Glenferrie station will understand.

Platform 2 of Glenferrie station is now totally creepy for me.
I so don’t wanna catch a train through there again.

Craig: editted out some comments about Connex