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With all the bitchin' and moanin' we sometimes do about living here, its nice to see some good things that people will do. Hats off to three heroe for saving a guy's life on the subway tracks
My problem with jumping in and saving someone would be how the Hell do I get out. THere's nothing to grab onto and pull yourself up and your weight will swing you UNDER the platform
My problem with jumping in and saving someone would be how the Hell do I get out. THere's nothing to grab onto and pull yourself up and your weight will swing you UNDER the platform
If there's no one to pull him and you up, go all the way down to the end of the platform, past where the front of the train will be when it stops.
If there's a piece of rebar or something nearby you could set it across the rails to try to get a red signal, but I don't know if it would work and of course there's no guarantee the oncoming train will get it in time. And you'd feel really dumb if it derailed the train.
I guess I would try to hide UNDER the platform. From what I see, most have a cubby hole there.
But thinking the whole thing through, I guess I would NOT jump onto the tracks...for anything except to save my partner's life. (Reminds me of all the people who die trying to save someone who has fallen through thin ice.)
If they have emergency brakes on the trains themselves, why dont they have emergency signals activators in the station (similar to fire alarms in public buildings)? Put it behind glass... This way, if someone falls on the track, a good Samaritan need only pull an alarm and not risk her own life to help...
If they have emergency brakes on the trains themselves, why dont they have emergency signals activators in the station (similar to fire alarms in public buildings)? Put it behind glass... This way, if someone falls on the track, a good Samaritan need only pull an alarm and not risk her own life to help...
Too many whackos would pull the brake for FUN. Also there is always risk of an emergency brake activation huriting people standing ass to elbow in a crowded train.
It's the one farthest from the platform, raised about a foot higher and sheathed in wood, top and bottom.
Like this: (but New Yorks seems a bit bigger)
The one at the top.
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