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Marktell2012

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This photo certainly is no fake. The man certainly died. The question is whether he had time before the shot to save the guy. He says it was pure luck that the photo came out so nicely.
 
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NoDrama

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Saltrock said:
Where was the Sewer Slayer when we needed him. On a serious note their need to be some kind of laser that if the beam is broken then gives a warning to the conductor or command central.



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It won't work. We are talking about one of the largest cities in the world, even if only .01% of the population is dumb enough to fuck around and break the beam then it will happen 20 times per hour in NYC. I guarantee there are plenty of stupid shits in NYC who would do it just for kicks. There is nothing they can do except try to teach people to not shove others to their death. The photographer shouldn't be getting in trouble, but he should be shamed, as should every person there who shirked from their god given responsibility to help a fellow human being. The guy who shoved him is the one who should be in trouble, but I see no one cares about that.
 
Dr Kynes

Dr Kynes

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NoDrama said:
The reporter said he didn't think he would be strong enough to lift the man.

Dude must weigh all of 150, I think I coulda grabbed him and pulled him out with the one good arm I have with the assist of adrenaline. In New York people have no strength though, so you can't blame them when they don't give a fuck about their fellow human beings.
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its Bloomberg's fault.

with less than 24 ounces of The Dew, you just cant summon the strength to perform feats of adrenaline.
before bloomberg, that dude would have been rescued in the most EXTREME! way possible. probably by a guy on a dirt bike.

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racerboy71 said:
my question is did this guy end up dying or not?

and see, if they hadn't outlawed big gulps in nyc, someone could have slammed a big gulp of mountain dew and had the needed energy to pull this man from the tracks..
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damn you! why must you be so awesome?

 
loquacious

loquacious

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And who says New York is a cesspool filled with weak people who keep their heads down and care about nothing but their own pathetic lives?
 
RyanTheRhino

RyanTheRhino

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well that train in not running/.... the doors are open , and on top of that i think its going the other way.

for all you country folk who question me. Its because there is never a large crowd standing after the exchange. Its always bone empty


[video=youtube;EGeOfaDR_tk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EGeOfaDR_tk[/video]
 
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ChesusRice

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fdd2blk said:
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The guy who took this photo committed suicide after taking it
he never helped the kid out. just let him die

On 27 July 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfontein Spruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area where he used to play as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning, aged 33. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky."[SUP][[/SUP]
 
RyanTheRhino

RyanTheRhino

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found a video BTW. Guess that's why the crowd was there because it never stopped yet

[video=youtube;Z5dGuvjWSTc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z5dGuvjWSTc[/video]
 
ProfessorPotSnob

ProfessorPotSnob

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Sad to say anyone could have been brave and simply tried to throw the man a shirt or jacket to climb with .. One person could have helped him easily and more than one could have pulled him to safety with ease .. But nope it appears that this was watched by cowards who were afraid to die for another ..
 
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fdd2blk

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ChesusRice said:
The guy who took this photo committed suicide after taking it
he never helped the kid out. just let him die

On 27 July 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfontein Spruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area where he used to play as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning, aged 33. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky."[SUP][[/SUP]
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he did win a Pulitzer prize though. :)
 
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fdd2blk

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http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22129807/pushed-onto-subway-tracks-suspect-arrested-murder-charge

NEW YORK -- A suspect was arrested Wednesday in the death of a man who was pushed onto the tracks and photographed just before a train struck him.

Naeem Davis, 30, was taken into custody for questioning Tuesday after security video showed a man fitting the suspect's description working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center. Police said Davis made statements implicating himself in Ki-Suck Han's death.
Davis was arrested on a murder charge. He was in custody, and it wasn't immediately clear if he had a lawyer.
Witnesses told investigators they saw a man talking to himself Monday afternoon before he approached the 58-year-old Han of Queens at the Times Square station, got into an altercation with him and pushed him into the train's path.
The Post published a photo on its front page Tuesday of Han with his head turned toward the train, his arms reaching up but unable to climb off the tracks in time. It was shot by freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi, who was waiting to catch a train.
Abbasi told NBC's "Today" show Wednesday that he was trying to alert the motorman to what was going on by flashing his camera.
He said he was shocked that people nearer to the victim didn't try to help in the 22 seconds before the train struck.
"It took me a second to figure out what was happening ... I saw the lights in the distance. My mind was to alert the train," Abbasi said.
"The people who were standing close to
him ... they could have moved and grabbed him and pulled him up. No one made an effort," he added. Trains generally arrive at the stations going 25 mph, but it's not clear how fast the train was going when it struck Han. The waiting area is a narrower than other subway stations, but the platform is still about a dozen feet wide.
In a written account Abbasi gave the Post, he said a crowd gathered taking videos and snapping photos on their cellphones after Han was pulled, limp, onto the platform. He said he shoved them back as a doctor and another man tried to resuscitate the victim, but it was no use. The man died in front of Abbasi's eyes.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that it appeared the suspect in Han's death had "a psychiatric problem."
The mayor said Han, "if I understand it, tried to break up a fight or something and paid for it with his life."
 
Grandpapy

Grandpapy

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I was mistaken, but it seems odd some one could hold and get that shot without doing something, hell, running down the platform waving my arms if nothing else.
 
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