'Monster's Ball' Writer Will Rokos Hit By Subway Train

By PopEater Staff Posted Nov 1st 2010 10:48AM

'Monster's Ball' screenwriter Will Rokos has something to be thankful for, and it's not just his respected Hollywood career. Rokos survived being hit in the head by an arriving subway train in New York City on Saturday afternoon, the New York Post reports.

The 57-year-old writer, who had been looking into the subway tunnel to see if a train was approaching, was thrown back onto the station platform, where fellow subway riders found him semi-conscious but alive.

Rokos is currently being treated for his injuries at New York's Bellevue Hospital. He is listed in critical but stable condition.

'Monster's Ball', the 2002 film Rokos co-wrote and acted in, made history when its star, Halle Berry, became the first African-American actress to score the Best Actress Oscar. Rokos received his own Academy Award nomination for the film's screenplay.

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Monday 01 November

By bronxriza

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We need to thin the herd. Trains make noise, how can you be that stupid to be hit in the head by the train? He gets my vote for the Academy award for idiocy. First post! WAH WAH WAH!

By TONY

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A LITTLE ANGRY TODAY?GEEZ.

By his boy elroy

I've pulled/pushed people out of the way from subway trains quite often. And I can't even blame the tourists! The local New Yorkers are worse because they're impatient and nosy and often distracted and too many walk the yellow line.
Back the f**k up people!

I'm just sayin'.

By phil

Was it the front or the back of the head.

By Al Schrader

Bellevue is the psycho ward hospital. Didn't anyone watch Barney Miller ?

Al

By BTDT

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"had been looking into the subway tunnel to see if a train was approaching,"

someone had a big bowl of stupid for breakfast.

By welshwoman

Perhaps, but I'm sure you're perfect.

Hope he didn't dent the train, they cost millions.

By Susan

Maybe he should have had a bowl of Lucky Charms!

By jeansspot2

I do hope he is okay - what is that old saying? Man, I feel like I've been hit by a train!

By John

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no it should be (DUH DID I DO THATTTTTTT) OR (MAN I HOPE NOBODY WAS WATCHIN THAT) ROTFLMAO

By boris

As someone who rides New York subway, I say get hit by a train on your own is pretty difficult to do. Only options: he is almost deaf and he was looking in opposite direction.

By angelo

Yep, only possibility other than a suicide attempt.

By rann948

All that pot has its downfalls.

By Seymour Bottoms

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This just in....Will Rokos drafted by Tea Party for 2012 Presidential Run.

By Julie

I'm with Boris. I've been in NY all my life, and the only people who've been hit or run over by trains have been severely intoxicated, with the one exception of that kid who had a seizure and fell onto the tracks (he got saved, though). So, with all due respect to this guy, he must've been either really drunk or really stupid, because there's a small gap between the trains and the platform.

By kcdgenius

WHO or WHAT do you thank for being hit by a train and ending up in the hospital?

If something or someone had the power to prevent him from being hit, and instead... oh never mind...

By ok

Gee everyone on heres a Smart~a** NOT!

By Zero

I guess that answered his question ! *THUMP !

By frankerin

He's from California, is a media scriptwriter, has an altered life style, all of which explains why he stuck his head where it doen't belong.

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