There all solid in nyc… Guys only hope besides getting pulled out would have been to lay down in the ditch between the gauge of the tracks, even then I dunno.
They def aren’t all solid dude. Unless I’m dreaming I’ve seen them overhang. I could be wrong i guess but that’d would really fuck with me if they were. Gotta look next time.
You are wrong…most all of the platforms in NY are solid cement
This. Split seconds to either crawl up/get helped out or take a chance to squeeze in a small spot between a moving rail car and a piece of expose steel carrying some odd 400 amps at ~680V or something like that. Seriously shitty position to have been put it.
Fucking A-hole that pushed him should be tossed in a chipper shedder but he’ll likely get a slap on the wrist type sentence and be eating hot meals on our dime. Fucker :banghead
thats kinda fucked up man. Wouldnt you be the first to respond from a call like that anyway?
My wife is an RN, 4 years sofar. She saved someone’s life at a bar when they fell down drunk, hit their head on the bar top, passed out and stopped breathing. She did CPR and controlled the bleeding on his head and brought him back. If she wasnt there, or was there a few minutes later the dude would be dead. Everyone else just stood and watched, didnt do shit. She helped stabilize someone that was in a car accident and broke their femur at my friends camp on labor day a few years back. Thankfully we also had 3 firemen and another nurse there too, because there was also an infant in the other car and 2 small children to keep them calm and make sure they wernt hurt too. Thsi past Black friday some old man slipped and fell at Target and hit his head on the curb, split him wide open and was in shock bleeding all over. Once again nobody helped just looked around dumbfounded and she rushed over and assisted him until the amberlamps came.
IRC she took an oath when she got her license. Did you?
My memory must be fucking with me i guess. Gotta check it out next time i am down there.
i wish i had enough money to pay someone like that to follow me everywhere i go. dont know when i need to be revived.
what i dont understand is why doesnt the city put a rail of some sort or a guard on the side of the platform, i been in the city for about a year and a half now, and the tought of some crazy or druged out guy pushing me, crossed my mind more than once. not to menthion that some platforms have like a 8-10 inche gap away from trains door step. someones foot can easly go in that. and accidents keep happening that can be prevented if someone took a minute to improve those stations.
Becasue the owners dont care.
“cant afford it”. Or think that in their eyes its millions of wasted dollars putting them up. They havnt been there for this long, people still HAVE to use my rail, I dont need to put them up. They dont realize the positives that might make them more money, or keep their customers happier.
Now, make them NEED to put them up. If a governing body told them they must install them now they would have to put them up. BUT, why wont that happen. Becasue there is always someone on the effected side making stupid money, being heavily interconnected some how, someway that either decides to say no I dont want them or gets a “tell so and so NO we wont do that” from someone else. That person will have a big say somehow, some way, in the decission on the governing bodies side of the arguement too. Bribes, political pull, etc. Stuff that happens EVERYDAY but you and I will never know about it.
In the other thread you talk about personal responsibility but in here you want a government mandate to spend millions of dollars on rails (which can’t cover the entire platform and will likely often block enterances to the doors; I can’t think of a single subway system in the world that has a “guard”) for rare instances where an accident (a statistic that can’t be prevented) happens. Especially in cases where the confrontation was provoked.
Man fucked up, on multiple levels and paid the ultimate price. Sad sure. Is the city/company responsible for this liability? Nope.
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Noooo. I was just answering the opinion of “why not put guards up” with an opinion of my own. :rofl
I feel bad for the guy, a little bit. BUT, he probably shouldnt have been arguing with some schmuck in the first case for it to get physical… and shouldnt have been doing that THAT CLOSE TO THE RAIL.
umm its a subway station. Trains come in slow and go out slow. Why didn’t the walk to the end of the platform where the stairs are.
Just so many “why the fuck didn’t he do this scenarios”
Sorry,should have mentioned it was when I was in the emt program, not an actual emt at the time. once I became certified I was legally obligated to stop and help at any scene.
thats fine dude. no harm no foul.
That night I talked to my wife about this.
Nobody in NYS; EMT, LPN, RN, DR, etc. is legally obligated to stop and help. Down south some states say you are however… but how could they prove that someone with a license ignored an accident or something.
The good Samaritan law is there to HELP protect someone if they tried to help in an accident. Ave joe off the street isn’t “covered” as much as a nurse, and a nurse isn’t “covered” as much as a dr… if something were to go wrong with the assistance the victim was given. I use covered in quotes, because its left to the discretion of the court if it even went that far. BUT, if the assistance came from someone with a medical license, they still have to conscious of their expertise level in their field VS what kind of assistance they are giving the victim. IE, a labor and deliver nurse pulls up to a car crash and the victim has brain swelling, they shouldn’t reach for a dremel tool and cut into the skull to elevate the pressure! LOL that’s as far fetched as I could make an example, but you get the point. If the “help” made it worse, the court might put some accountability on the L&D nurse for trying something out of their realm of expertise.
Like my wife did for the dude bleeding at Target, she just kept him calm, and held a bandage to the dude wound. She didn’t reach into her bag and start stitching the guy up… could she have physically, sure she can and has while at work… but it wasn’t necessary at the time to do so, so it’s an un-necessary risk.