Train pushed by passenger to free trapped man

[TarJak]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-0...-train/5656302

I wonder how long he would have waited for emergency services to free him if this had happened outside peak-hour.

[Sailor Steve]

Pretty wild!

[Stealhead]

That is Gung-ho (working together). The orginal meaning.

Makes me think of a video clip I saw of some people in a Turkish villege. There was a flash flood and the town was trying to save this woman and boy trapped in a car. It was pretty close but they managed to work together and get the people out of the car and on dry land.

[Aktungbby]

In London as you exit the metro underground car, a loud recording constantly states: "MIND THE GAP"! B.A.R.T in San Francisco does not...perhaps that simple admonition would be useful elsewhere!

[Otto Fuhrmann]

That is pretty crazy. It's nice to know people are still willing to help, and not just stand there taking pictures.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by TarJak

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-0...-train/5656302

I wonder how long he would have waited for emergency services to free him if this had happened outside peak-hour.

I wonder had it not been peak-hour if anyone would have noticed?

Was on UK news last night...top marks to the commuters

[Stealhead]

I think at an off peak hour even if people noticed there would not have been enough get it moved. I seem to recall the London tube having an announcement before the doors closed as well. Must have worked well enough I managed to get on and offdrspite my state of enribration.

Still accidents can and do happen despite the best engineering.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

In London as you exit the metro underground car, a loud recording constantly states: "MIND THE GAP"! B.A.R.T in San Francisco does not...perhaps that simple admonition would be useful elsewhere!

Strangely enough he stepped over a sign on the platform with those very words printed on it.

[Sailor Steve]

Our commuter trains are on the surface rather than underground, but the stations are designed so the gap is only an inch or so wide. I can't see even a small child having that happen here.

[swamprat69er]

One lucky guy.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

In London as you exit the metro underground car, a loud recording constantly states: "MIND THE GAP"! B.A.R.T in San Francisco does not...perhaps that simple admonition would be useful elsewhere!

Kudos to the Oz-ians for stepping up and helping out. It's always good to see people working together to help out someone in trouble.

The reference to the BART system brought to mind another San Francisco rail system -- the fabled Cable Cars:




The Cable Cars, aside from being the only moving National Monument in the US, are rife with lore since their creation in 1873. The cars only do a top speed of 9 miles an hour, but they are quite a ride. Two of the lines have some pretty tight curves which they take at full speed and, on one curve, slightly above top speed since the car coasts around the curve using the inertia generated form a run down a hill. The cars have 2 crew members, a Gripman who actually "drives" the car and a Conductor who takes fares and operates the rear brakes. It used to be the custom for the Conductor to call out "Watch out for the curve!!" when the car was about to go through one of the tight curves. A popular story when I was growing up was about a Conductor who, in a lapse of judgment, brought both of his hands to call out "Watch out for the curve!!", instead of holding on himself, and was thrown off the car at full speed. Fortunately, he was not seriously injured, except for a few scrapes and bruises and the continued derision of his fellow conductors...

BTW, Maya Angelou, the famed American poet and playwright, had the distinction in her youth of being the first African-American female Conductor on the Cable Cars...


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