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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| The guy claims he was grabbed and shouted at first. So you throw someone who has grabbed and shouted at you into a sunken area with railroad tracks? |
An overreaction, sure. But the guy was homeless. Homeless folk tend to become extra-agressive because they have to to survive.
And they were in the narrow part- the edge of the platform was only one or two feet away max.
These sorts of deaths happen everyday in the US. Only reason this one made headlines was because someone was on hand to take a photo, and it captured a nightmare scenario with mass media appeal.
A terrible accident, to be sure. Condolences to the family. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| No footage of this? It'd be nice if we could see who started it. |
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everything-is-everything
Joined: 06 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| nautilus wrote: |
A terrible accident |
Accident?
I don't care if the old guy was a belligerent drunk, throwing him on to the tracks like that is straight up murder. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:52 am Post subject: Re: NY man killed when pushed in front of train |
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| Tragic doesn't begin to describe what happened to this hero. |
Sorry, I don't mean to derail this thread, but hero? The poor old man is a victim, but I don't get why he's a hero. |
I admit it was a bit reaching. More like hero-after-the-fact. According to that first article, he was trying to prevent a deranged man from harassing other people, he ended up getting killed as a result, and the people he was attempting to save from further harassment and intimidation ran away and watched him die.
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| The problem is it would take a moment to see that he can't get up, then a moment to figure out what to do, then by that time it would likely be too late to pull it off |
What about just immediately rushing to the aid of someone who has fallen on the tracks when a train is approaching, regardless of his condition, instead of trying to figure out if he actually needs help before moving in his direction? That doesn't mean you'd have to jump down on the tracks with him, but just be near the platform's edge in case. That kind of response obviously would have saved this man's life.
There's no excuse, none, for any of those people not trying to get close to help. And the photographer is especially disgusting, both because of his decision to get some choice shots of the tragedy instead of helping and because he then tried to play that off as an attempt to help. 22 seconds and he didn't drop his camera to pull him up. Unbelievable. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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There's no duty to aid another. Furthermore, we weren't there. All we have is a snapshot of the situation. And from that snapshot, there are indications that a rescuer could have been endangered and may have been pulled down into the train if the rescuer were not strong enough.
The court of public opinion can try as many cases as it wants, but it makes the worst decisions and it pays little to no attention to the laws of the land. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| There's no duty to aid another. |
Legally? No. But if you're trying to tell me that your sense of morality finds no fault with someone being easily able to save another's life yet doing nothing (and in the case of the photographer, worse than nothing), I have to question where your values lie.
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| All we have is a snapshot of the situation. |
No, we have that snapshot (likely others as well) and multiple eyewitness testimony.
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| And from that snapshot, there are indications that a rescuer could have been endangered and may have been pulled down into the train if the rescuer were not strong enough. |
His arm is on the platform. Unless that guy was also deranged and seemingly likely to hurl someone else down, then no, it doesn't look like people would have been at much risk.
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| The court of public opinion can try as many cases as it wants, but it makes the worst decisions and it pays little to no attention to the laws of the land. |
What law are you thinking of that's relevant to this incident? Does NYC have a law against pulling someone off the train tracks? We're not talking about having people hunt down his attacker, after all. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: NY man killed when pushed in front of train |
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| geldedgoat wrote: |
What about just immediately rushing to the aid of someone who has fallen on the tracks when a train is approaching, regardless of his condition, instead of trying to figure out if he actually needs help before moving in his direction? That doesn't mean you'd have to jump down on the tracks with him, but just be near the platform's edge in case. That kind of response obviously would have saved this man's life.
There's no excuse, none, for any of those people not trying to get close to help. And the photographer is especially disgusting, both because of his decision to get some choice shots of the tragedy instead of helping and because he then tried to play that off as an attempt to help. 22 seconds and he didn't drop his camera to pull him up. Unbelievable. |
I understand your point, but for a fit and healthy man it shouldn't take more than a couple of second to climb back up onto the platform, and anybody trying to 'help' would likely only be hindering. Imagine if you fell into a river or lake and you were perfectly capable of swimming back to dry land, but somebody jumped in and started trying to grab you to keep you afloat. That would be a hindrance.
It seems the guy was injured by the fall and couldn't make it back up himself, and it's apparent that nobody clocked on to this quickly enough. We're talking about a situation here where people are forced to make a very quick decision and they just froze up.
Ill put it another way. If the people on the platform somehow knew exactly what was going to happen and they were standing waiting for it to happen, would they still have done nothing? I don't think so. I think this is just a classic case of people not reacting quickly enough to a sudden event
edit; I agree the photographer is absolute scum. He/she certainly didn't freeze up in the moment. Worse than vermin. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: NY man killed when pushed in front of train |
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| Squire wrote: |
| We're talking about a situation here where people are forced to make a very quick decision and they just froze up. |
No, we're talking about a situation where people ran the other direction or paused to make a quick business decision. These people should be confronted with their own cowardice so that if they find themselves in another similar situation, they might be shamed into proper action. And their cowardice should be publicized so that others might likewise react better.
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| If the people on the platform somehow knew exactly what was going to happen and they were standing waiting for it to happen, would they still have done nothing? I don't think so. |
I don't either, which is why I proposed that the automatic response should be to move closer to the situation (without necessarily placing oneself in harm's way) in case such action is required. |
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