When I threw myself in front of the subway train to rescue that kid,

[shereads]

I never dreamed the press would refer to me as a heroic black man. WTF?

You guys knew that was me, right?

 

[rgraham666]

I hope the train isn't hurt too badly.

 

[shereads]

I hope the train isn't hurt too badly.

It's just bruised up a little.

 

[minsue]

The Disney trip is alreay taken, Sher, but I'm sure we can rustle up some tickets to WalleyWorld for ya.

 

[rgraham666]

It's just bruised up a little.

Oh good.

There's not a large population of them so we can't afford to lose any.

It wasn't the train's fault anyway.

 

[Liar]

I never dreamed the press would refer to me as a heroic black man. WTF?

That's how I've always thought of you.

 

[minsue]

That's how I've always thought of you.

. .

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Before you jumped out to save the kid, did you ever stop to consider the possible trauma the poor child might suffer from being grabbed by a stranger?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

And what are you going to squander the $10,000 Don Tramp gave you?


























Yes, it is misspelled. (maybe)

 

[Lisa Denton]

What I thought you would find insulting was when you saved that american sailor adrift at sea the other day, and they refered to you as a chilean trawler.

But we know what you are (?) and love you.

 

[shereads]

And what are you going to squander the $10,000 Don Tramp gave you?

Ten thousand dollars? I leap in front of a train to save the life of a stranger and one of the wealthiest men in the country thinks it's worth $10,000?

Granted, it's a healthy chunk of change for most people. But Donald Trump probably spends more than $10,000 on socks. He could have written a check for ten times that much and never noticed. Hell, he could establish The Trump Fund for Train and Subway Rescue Heros on what he tips his doorman.

I'm offended.

I'll take the money, but I'm offended.

 

[shereads]

Joking aside, it is one of the best news stories in a long time. I like to think I'm no coward, but this just stuns me.

On Tuesday, while waiting for a downtown Manhattan train, Autrey saw Cameron Hollopeter, a 19-year-old film student, suffering from some kind of medical episode. After stumbling down the platform, Hollopeter, of Littleton, Mass., fell onto the tracks with a train on its way into the station.

Autrey, traveling with his two young daughters, knew he had to do something.

"If I let him stay there by himself, he's going to be dismembered," the Navy veteran remembered thinking.

He jumped down to the tracks, a few feet below platform level, and rolled with the young man into a drainage trough - cold, wet and more than a little unpleasant smelling - between the rails as the southbound No. 1 train came into the 137th Street/City College station.

The train's operator saw someone on the tracks and put the emergency brakes on. Some train cars passed over Autrey and Hollopeter with only a couple of inches to spare, but neither man suffered any harm from the incident.

Hollopeter was taken to a nearby hospital; Autrey refused medical attention - and then went to work.

~ NY Times

 

[shereads]

What I thought you would find insulting was when you saved that american sailor adrift at sea the other day, and they refered to you as a chilean trawler.

But we know what you are (?) and love you.

In my native land of Chile, "trawler" doesn't mean what you think it does.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I'll take the money, but I'm offended.

And here I thought you were a heroic black guy (or Chilian trawler).

For what little it's worth, IMHO, the dude's no hero. That designation doesn't fit a parent who'd leave his two young daughters unattended in a crowded NYC subway station for ANY reason. Wonder what went through their minds when daddy left them standing alone?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[TheEarl]

And here I thought you were a heroic black guy (or Chilian trawler).

For what little it's worth, IMHO, the dude's no hero. That designation doesn't fit a parent who'd leave his two young daughters unattended in a crowded NYC subway station for ANY reason. Wonder what went through their minds when daddy left them standing alone?

Rumple Foreskin

Maybe he's the trusting sort? It'd certainly be a sorry world if someone was left to die because his potential rescuer was scared of moving away from his daughters for 2 minutes.

The Earl

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

It was a great story and I admire the man that did it. I would hope I would have, but I don't know... the shock of the situation may have been so much that I was left stunned and unmoving...

I would hope though that if I were the person in need, someone would come to my rescue, no matter who was around.

Sometimes you act first and think later... He's a hero, IMHO.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

In my native land of Chile, "trawler" doesn't mean what you think it does.

I went on a Pub Trawl once. Got so drunk I ended up sleeping on a park bench

 

[S-Des]

The man is a hero because he thought of someone elses life over his own. Fortunately it had a happy ending because it would have been life-alterringly horrific for the girls if it had gone wrong.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I saw the new video with the animation. It sorta looked to me like the guy was a perv and was bugger the victim while the train ran over them.














I know. I'm a sick bitch. But I can't help it.

 

[Liar]

I saw the new video with the animation. It sorta looked to me like the guy was a perv and was bugger the victim while the train ran over them.

Hell, if he saved my life, I'd let him cop a feel.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I know. I'm a sick bitch. But I can't help it.

What's to help?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[cloudy]

I liked this story, too:

Passerby catches falling child, say NY police

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A three-year-old boy was caught by a passerby after falling from the fourth-floor window of an apartment in New York City on Thursday, police said.

The boy was caught by a 39-year-old man passing under the window, police said in a brief statement. The boy was taken to hospital with just minor cuts and abrasions to his head and face. Police are still investigating and gave no more details.

But brothers Julio Gonzalez and Pedro Navarez described to New York television news later on Thursday how they caught the child after spotting it hanging from a fire escape.

"He was coming down pretty hard, so hard that when he landed in my arms my sneaker just flew right off and I fell down to the ground," Navarez told CBS 2 News.

The brothers said the baby then bounced off Navarez's chest and into the arms of Gonzalez, who then also fell down.

"We caught him and the boy's alright, thank God," Gonzalez said. "When I (initially) saw that baby I just ran. I wasn't thinking about anything, I was just thinking about catching that baby."

When reporters asked New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly about the incident he said: "This is the week of heroes in New York."

 

[RedHairedandFriendly]

I liked this story, too:

Passerby catches falling child, say NY police

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A three-year-old boy was caught by a passerby after falling from the fourth-floor window of an apartment in New York City on Thursday, police said.

The boy was caught by a 39-year-old man passing under the window, police said in a brief statement. The boy was taken to hospital with just minor cuts and abrasions to his head and face. Police are still investigating and gave no more details.

But brothers Julio Gonzalez and Pedro Navarez described to New York television news later on Thursday how they caught the child after spotting it hanging from a fire escape.

"He was coming down pretty hard, so hard that when he landed in my arms my sneaker just flew right off and I fell down to the ground," Navarez told CBS 2 News.

The brothers said the baby then bounced off Navarez's chest and into the arms of Gonzalez, who then also fell down.

"We caught him and the boy's alright, thank God," Gonzalez said. "When I (initially) saw that baby I just ran. I wasn't thinking about anything, I was just thinking about catching that baby."

When reporters asked New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly about the incident he said: "This is the week of heroes in New York."

Wow... I had not yet heard of this one. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

 

[starrkers]

And here I thought you were a heroic black guy (or Chilian trawler).

For what little it's worth, IMHO, the dude's no hero. That designation doesn't fit a parent who'd leave his two young daughters unattended in a crowded NYC subway station for ANY reason. Wonder what went through their minds when daddy left them standing alone?

Rumple Foreskin

The story ran out here too. The way it read here, he'd already gone to the bloke's aid when he suffered a fit. His little girls were being looked after by another woman on the platform.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

And in "Scary Movie 5", we'll be seeing men running to save falling babies, only to crash into each other; or we'll see a man saving another from an oncoming train only to be crushed by it himself...