CammRobb
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ITN wrote:

A security camera has captured the moment a woman fell on the tracks on Boston's Orange Line as a train headed straight for her.

Passengers flailed their arms at the driver, who stopped just in time.

A witness said the train came to a standstill inches from the woman, who had scraped knees but was otherwise not hurt.

There are reports that the woman had been drinking for several hours before she fell.

Everyone in the station applauded the driver, Charice Lewis, who has been honoured by the T's Board of Directors as a hero.

Lewis, a 27-year-old train operator from Mattapan, said she did not have time to think, she just reacted. Recounting her emotions in the seconds after the incident she said: "It was so close, I thought it was not good."

"Afterward she came up with a big smile on her face and I'm like 'Oh my God, you really scared me' ", Lewis said. "The most exciting part for me is she crawled out from under."


That could have been sore, but if it had hit her, less stupid genes to carry on forth to the next generation.
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6914

Dumbass drunk bitch. Why risk the lives of the passengers to avoid running this dipshit over?
Blah, but I guess the driver didn't know that, so he had to stop anyway

Last edited by mtb0minime (2009-11-10 12:04:24)

jord
Member
+2,382|6937|The North, beyond the wall.
Are the red Boxes meant to be for movement or just random?

Also yay what a lucky miss at first I was totally screaming at my monitor, and I was like, OH....my ...gaaawd. but then I was totally like nah he gon stop in tym and he did, and i was totally extacticz and jumped up and my dad told me to sit down or hes gonna hit me again so i sat down and cried myself to sleep but tears of happiness she was ok!1
Sydney
2λчиэλ
+783|7102|Reykjavík, Iceland.

jord wrote:

Are the red Boxes meant to be for movement or just random?

Also yay what a lucky miss at first I was totally screaming at my monitor, and I was like, OH....my ...gaaawd. but then I was totally like nah he gon stop in tym and he did, and i was totally extacticz and jumped up and my dad told me to sit down or hes gonna hit me again so i sat down and cried myself to sleep but tears of happiness she was ok!1
Cool...
Lucien
Fantasma Parastasie
+1,451|6912

mtb0minime wrote:

Why risk the lives of the passengers to avoid running this dipshit over?
I do not understand how you interpret things
https://i.imgur.com/HTmoH.jpg
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6914

Lucien wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Why risk the lives of the passengers to avoid running this dipshit over?
I do not understand how you interpret things
Ok, maybe not the lives of the passengers, but it's certainly possible for them to get injured should the train decelerate fast enough.


Overall, my philosophy on life is let stupid people doing stupid or dangerous things suffer. Dumb wobbly drunk lady wants to stand near the edge of the platform and risk falling in? Fine, let her. Then run her over if she does.
loubot
O' HAL naw!
+470|6837|Columbus, OH
She is probably went to a bar afterwards telling the bartender what kind of day she had.
S.Lythberg
Mastermind
+429|6706|Chicago, IL
Charge her for the wear on the brakes
Wreckognize
Member
+294|6744
Should've let natural selection take its course.
CammRobb
Banned
+1,510|6389|Carnoustie MASSIF
Aww who deleted my fascist posts?
jord
Member
+2,382|6937|The North, beyond the wall.
Alls that mattered is my pointless fag post wasn't deleted. That's all that counts.

Answer the red box q.
I'm Jamesey
Do a Research Noob
+506|6391|Scotland!

mtb0minime wrote:

Lucien wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Why risk the lives of the passengers to avoid running this dipshit over?
I do not understand how you interpret things
Ok, maybe not the lives of the passengers, but it's certainly possible for them to get injured should the train decelerate fast enough.


Overall, my philosophy on life is let stupid people doing stupid or dangerous things suffer. Dumb wobbly drunk lady wants to stand near the edge of the platform and risk falling in? Fine, let her. Then run her over if she does.
overall my philosophy on you is that you're gay and stupid. this is all.
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6914

I'm Jamesey wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Lucien wrote:


I do not understand how you interpret things
Ok, maybe not the lives of the passengers, but it's certainly possible for them to get injured should the train decelerate fast enough.


Overall, my philosophy on life is let stupid people doing stupid or dangerous things suffer. Dumb wobbly drunk lady wants to stand near the edge of the platform and risk falling in? Fine, let her. Then run her over if she does.
overall my philosophy on you is that you're gay and stupid. this is all.
Thanks. Good job.
CrazeD
Member
+368|6932|Maine
Surprised she didn't get electrocuted.
Mekstizzle
WALKER
+3,611|6880|London, England

CrazeD wrote:

Surprised she didn't get electrocuted.
Most systems use four rails rather than just the electric "third" rail that most people think is there. So you'd have to touch both electrified 'rails' to actually be electrocuted by one of these. Think birds on a power line.
CrazeD
Member
+368|6932|Maine

Mekstizzle wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

Surprised she didn't get electrocuted.
Most systems use four rails rather than just the electric "third" rail that most people think is there. So you'd have to touch both electrified 'rails' to actually be electrocuted by one of these. Think birds on a power line.
Birds don't get electrocuted because they don't complete the circuit.
CammRobb
Banned
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CrazeD wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

Surprised she didn't get electrocuted.
Most systems use four rails rather than just the electric "third" rail that most people think is there. So you'd have to touch both electrified 'rails' to actually be electrocuted by one of these. Think birds on a power line.
Birds don't get electrocuted because they don't complete the circuit.
https://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/237i4CEA9AA2FF21CBB1/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1
some_random_panda
Flamesuit essential
+454|6650

Mekstizzle wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

Surprised she didn't get electrocuted.
Most systems use four rails rather than just the electric "third" rail that most people think is there. So you'd have to touch both electrified 'rails' to actually be electrocuted by one of these. Think birds on a power line.
No, you need to touch one - the live one.  Assuming the other line is just ground, then a body should do just as well for a short circuit.
Defiance
Member
+438|6930

mtb0minime wrote:

Dumbass drunk bitch. Why risk the lives of the passengers to avoid running this dipshit over?
Blah, but I guess the driver didn't know that, so he had to stop anyway
Right, because 150 pounds of flesh and bone couldn't possibly cause any damage to the train. Full size trains have been derailed because of less.

Also, the deceleration of that train wasn't nearly violent enough to cause an inherent risk to the passengers; a train like that can't possibly achieve it. Could someone have fallen and banged their head? Yes, but I guarantee that the chances of a passenger dying from that were less than the chances the woman on the tracks had.

I'm all in support of darwinism, but you can not criticize the operator.
ruisleipa
Member
+149|6481|teh FIN-land
I'm glad the train stopped in time, but if it hadn't then I would've just though 'crazy drunk bitch', prolly...
Macbeth
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+2,444|5845

some_random_panda wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

CrazeD wrote:

Surprised she didn't get electrocuted.
Most systems use four rails rather than just the electric "third" rail that most people think is there. So you'd have to touch both electrified 'rails' to actually be electrocuted by one of these. Think birds on a power line.
No, you need to touch one - the live one.  Assuming the other line is just ground, then a body should do just as well for a short circuit.
Er well, in NYC just a few years back there was a story of a teenager dying after touching the third rail.

Those light rails though, the trains with the cord in the sky, birds can touch those because they don't touch the ground. If it was any other way there would be hundreds of dead birds by every light rail train.
13/f/taiwan
Member
+940|5958
Similar thing happened to a guy here a years ago. Drunk and wandering around the platform of the train station. Fell off and was ran over. He sued and won a few million.

Here it is:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/18/drunk. … index.html

Last edited by 13/f/taiwan (2009-11-10 22:11:21)

Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5845

13/f/taiwan wrote:

Similar thing happened to a guy here a years ago. Drunk and wandering around the platform of the train station. Fell off and was ran over. He sued and won a few million.

Here it is:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/18/drunk. … index.html
Do you remember the story from a few years back of the New Yorker that fell into the train tracks and the other guy rescued him by jumping right before the train and holding him down?
13urnzz
Banned
+5,830|6756

Macbeth wrote:

If it was any other way there would be hundreds of dead birds by every light rail train.
that would solve world hunger. next!?

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/21025/photos/pigeon.jpg
Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5845

Macbeth wrote:

13/f/taiwan wrote:

Similar thing happened to a guy here a years ago. Drunk and wandering around the platform of the train station. Fell off and was ran over. He sued and won a few million.

Here it is:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/18/drunk. … index.html
Do you remember the story from a few years back of the New Yorker that fell into the train tracks and the other guy rescued him by jumping right before the train and holding him down?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Autrey
On January 2, 2007, Autrey was waiting for a train at the 137th Street and Broadway station in Manhattan with his two young daughters. At around 12:45 p.m., he and two women noticed a young man, Cameron Hollopeter, having a seizure. Autrey borrowed a pen from someone and used it to keep Hollopeter's jaw open. Following the seizure, Hollopeter stumbled from the platform, falling onto the tracks.

As Hollopeter lay on the tracks, Autrey saw the lights of an oncoming train. As one of the women held Autrey's daughters back away from the edge of the platform, Autrey dove onto the tracks. He thought he would be able to take Hollopeter off the tracks, but he realized there was not enough time to drag Hollopeter away. Instead, he protected Hollopeter by throwing himself over Hollopeter's body in a drainage trench between the tracks, where he held him down. Though the operator of the train applied the brakes, all but two cars still passed over them, close enough to leave grease on his cap.[3]

That was a fucking hero.

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