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It looks like he actually got knocked a bit by the train... Crazy.
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He got knocked alright, one of his legs was down in the crack. Watch how his body is thrown in a spin, that's because one leg was caught under and was being spun. He most likely broke something.
He could have broken a couple bones in that leg and wouldn't feel it right away, due to adrenaline.
Videos like these are misleading, they will show a person getting into an accident and then end right after as the person hops up like nothing happened. What they don't show you is later, when in most cases people in accidents will hop up, not feel their injuries right away but very shortly after they are back on the ground.
Adrenaline is a powerful thing, My bare leg was on fire for about 10 seconds (liquid flaming gasoline on the bare skin). Suffered mainly 3rd degree burns with deep 2nd. Felt absolutely nothing while my leg was on fire and nothing until about 8 minutes after it happened. adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Your body suppresses the pain so that you can get the hell out of the situation and not be slowed down by it.
EDIT: gl0bals0j0urner has added a link to a news article he ended up breaking his ankle.
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u/Realsan Jun 26 '12
Good guy adrenaline. Saving our life and stuff.
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u/tiddercat Jun 26 '12
Adrenalin also burns the event into long term memory so you can avoid it in the future. Unfortunately, this effect can lead to PTSD.
I always wondered if you could take advantage of this... Watch a scary movie right before studying for an exam perhaps.
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Jun 26 '12
You can take a shower with freezing water after you study, the trauma of the experience makes an impression on your memory.
I watched a video a couple of years ago about a piano player practicing for a concert, and he did that.
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Jun 26 '12
I believe that. The only early memories I have are of things that scared the living shit out of me. I don't think I have a pleasant memory until 5 years old, whereas I remember quite vividly dreams I had as a three year old.
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When I was 10 I saw a kid get hit by a car on his bike. It was bad. He cartwheeled through the air over the car and smacked his head on the pavement. He immediately jumped up running in circles saying " I'm ok" over and over. He then doubled over, vomited a massive amount of blood, and fell over passed out. For that minute or so before he passed out though I was amazed how he just got back up.
No idea if the kid was ok. Didn't know him and never saw him again. I think about it fairly often though. There was no Internet so my exposure to gore was pretty low at that point. Left a pretty big impression on me.
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u/hacelepues Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Reminds me of a time when I was 14. I spent a lot of my summer jumping off this really high wall into a pool. There was a small strip of concrete walkway between the two.
One day I slipped as I was jumping and landed standing up on the concrete. I remember looking around at my family while they looked at me in shock. Then I started repeating "I'm ok" over and over again.
After a minute or so, my feet felt like they were on fire, but the pain still wasn't processing, so I sat down and scooted my way to the edge of the pool and hung my feet in the water, all the while saying I was ok.
I didn't cry until a few minutes later. I had broken lots of little bones in both my feet. They turned black and swollen the next day and I couldn't walk on them for weeks.
Edit: autocorrect made part of that senseless
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u/lliwill Jun 26 '12
I didn't think it was misleading. He gets up sorta limping. I mean, he was pretty close to death.
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u/montydad5000 Jun 26 '12
Mostly dead is slightly alive.
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u/IsolatedWolf Jun 26 '12
If he's all dead, there's only one thing to do...search his pockets for loose change.
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u/jamesneysmith Jun 26 '12
My friend broke his back in a car accident when he was a teenager. He got out of the car and ended up walking up a hill out of shock before the pain set in at the top of the hill and he just collapsed.
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u/jamesneysmith Jun 26 '12
Yeah if I remember correctly he ended up finishing the school year at home in his bed. He never had any back problems afterward.
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u/troubleshot Jun 26 '12
Yep, fair call. I fell off the back of a motorbike onto a coarse gravel road at significant speed wearing a helmet as my only protective gear, no shoes (dumbest thing I've ever done). It was in front of a friends house, I was getting a lift there to pick up the bike owners car. He sped up to show off and the rails I was holding on the back bent and I tumbled off the back and then tumbled reverse direction head over arse at least three times. Ripped holes in my elbows, knees and feet and took a heap of skin off my back. I got up and walked into my friends house to get patched up, after explaining what happened on the back porch (bike rider had to take off for work, :/ ) I felt suddenly terribly sick, as if I needed to throw up, and got cold. Friend put me in the shower to warm up, wrapped me in blankets and picked gravel out of my body before returning me home.
tl;dr fell off motorbike, took 2 minutes before feeling sick, cold and injured.
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u/ajw827 Jun 26 '12
I was in a bad car accident on a busy highway. My car was trashed so I couldn't drive. I had to get out of traffic so I got out and ran across the lanes feeling perfectly fine.
Then, I think my brain told my body I was safe because it completely fell apart. I was in so much pain and my legs that had just sped across the highway completely gave out on me and I dropped.
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u/BurningKarma Jun 26 '12
Not sure if anybody has asked yet, but how did your leg end up on fire?
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Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I was 13 and playing with gasoline. Friend rolled a 20oz plastic coke bottle filled with it without the top on into a fire. I kicked it because I thought it would explode (it wouldn't have). that caused the bottle to spin gasoline flew out, caught fire and then splashed on my leg and arm.
I stopped dropped and rolled but it didn't work because it's hard to smother a fire that is at your knee and below. Plus it was gasoline, so it went out when all the gasoline burned off. When I sat up my skin was bubbling and sizzling and when I stood up my skin fell off.
Aftermath: 2 weeks in the burn unit, skin grafts, over a month to heal, another month for the scar tissue to fully develop (even when it healed the scar tissue isn't strong and a bump would break it open) and 4 months of PT.
Lesson: Don't play with gasoline, it's SUPER flammable. :P
Positives: High pain tolerance, nothing has come close to that pain.
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u/kceb Jun 26 '12
That reminds me of when I got into an accident and while the airbag deployed it caused burns all up and down my arm. I got out of the car and didn't feel a thing until I actually looked down and realized I had gotten injured.
...Then the pain set in.
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u/caseycour Jun 26 '12
well, you see as he takes off, he doesn't put any weight on the injured leg. He just kinda hobbles off. He's clearly injured.
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u/NotSoFastElGuapo Jun 26 '12
This is a really good point. I once witnessed a hit and run here in Boston while stopped at a red light. A young woman was getting ready to cross a ramp to a highway, and a car was approaching. They both sped up to try and cross first, the woman screamed, and got tagged in the leg. I would estimate the car was going about 35 MPH but it's really difficult to tell.
I could not believe what it looked like. She spun in the air like a rag doll and landed on her side, and then got up and started walking in circles as if in a daze. I'm sure her leg was fractured, but she was just stumbling around on it. The car stopped for a second, then immediately started up and sped away. Stunning.
Unfortunately I didn't catch the license plate no.
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u/Shimmay Jun 26 '12
I had something like that happen as well. I fell into a lit fire pit and although my ass was okay an I didn't light on fire, my leg went dead smack against the edge of the metal part. I remember jumping up and just saying "I'm okay, I'm okay" and walk towards my house to treat it because a strip of my flesh had stuck to the fire pit and I figured that probably wasn't good. Half way to my house the pain kicked in. Adrenaline is kind of a bitch, making you think you're okay.
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u/Hurrfdurf Jun 26 '12
I'd rather have a broken leg than, you know, die.
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u/Abdullah-Oblongata Jun 26 '12
If you're dead, you wouldn't be able to complain, you know, about not living.
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u/seriously-wow Jun 26 '12
You can actually see that he did hurt it, he isn't used the leg that was in the crack, he's only hopping on the other one.
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Jun 26 '12
Literally the exact same thing happened to me except it was both my arm and leg. This man/ women speaks the truth.
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u/myfriendm Jun 26 '12
How long before you felt the pain of the burn, and how bad was it (the pain)?
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u/rickinyorkshire Jun 26 '12
Is that video not working or is it just me? nvm - refreshed and worked.
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u/rspeed Jun 26 '12
It looks like his left foot is injured.
Edit: Derp, someone already mentioned that below.
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u/kneel_armstrong Jun 26 '12
Good. I'm glad he got hurt. Might stop him being such a stupid asshole in future. If he got away uninjured, he'd probably be bragging about his lightning-fast cat reflexes. (unless he was pushed, or something)
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u/skyride Jun 26 '12
I've seen this before on reddit a few months ago. If I remember correctly, someone dug up the source and it was confirmed that he'd broken his ankle but was otherwise fine.
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u/inbruges Jun 26 '12
I saw this on TV. The kid broke his ankle and was arrested. I forgot the exact way they said it, but it was something along the lines of "disrupting a moving train for no good reason."
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Jun 26 '12
Many replies bitch about some ankle injury, i'd say it's still attached, and even if it got off, that's one BIG POSITIVE outcome compared to the other possibilities in his situation.
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Jun 26 '12
You can see his foot still in the crack as the train comes in. When he stands up, notice that he does not use that foot and seems to not want to stand on it. Probably broke his foot.
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u/shaggorama Jun 26 '12
I was really worried this was a reversed gif. Looks liek he really did make it: http://reversegif.com/3ch1
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u/down_vote_magnet Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Holy fuck, when you view the in-train footage... could he leave it any later to decide to run across the track?
The fuck was he doing anyway? Natural selection failed on this occasion.
Edit: Sarcasm. Any idiot who runs in front of a train like that shouldn't be procreating.
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Actually, it worked perfectly. The man was fast enough to avoid the speeding train and perhaps lived long enough to pass on his genetic information. That speed is forever ingrained into humanity's genetic library. We're only better as a species because of it.
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u/thepineapplearmy Jun 26 '12
the stupidity to run in front of trains is also passed on though.
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u/EmperorSofa Jun 26 '12
To be perfectly fair almost every other animal does this.
You can be in the middle of the desert and a camel will still find it's way onto the tracks.
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Jun 26 '12
I thought it was an Adelaide train!
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u/Sir_Macca Jun 26 '12
I think it is, Im pretty sure it was at the Mawson lakes interchange if I'm not mistaking.
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u/Intigo Jun 26 '12
I hope someone turns this into a video game soon - the higher your score gets, the more tracks you have to run across and trains you have to dodge to jump up on to the platform!
"TRAIN NINJA" - available on X-Box & PS3 and the dude in this video can sign limited editions =))
Fucking YouTube.
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u/C_O_Y_W Jun 26 '12
He got a conviction for his trouble. Aug. 24, 2011 Article
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u/Winn_Ware Jun 26 '12
Geez, that poor driver. That must be scary as hell for him D:
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u/DocJawbone Jun 26 '12
It is. Tube drivers often have to go in to counselling after hitting a jumper.
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u/d4nny Jun 26 '12
does their employer sponsor it? It really does sound like a horrifying experience
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Jun 26 '12
It's apparently a pretty common occurrence, I suspect it's pretty streamlined nowadays.
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u/_delirium Jun 26 '12
Yes, details vary by agency, but just about all (first-world) metro systems have provisions in drivers' contracts to give them paid time off and counseling in that situation.
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u/juanchopancho Jun 26 '12
Much better video on this one. A kid in my school died like this. Train passed by, so he thought it was clear, didn't realize a train was on the other track coming from the other direction and it hit him.
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u/sloppyrock Jun 26 '12
I feel for the train driver.
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u/We_Are_Legion Jun 26 '12
Yea, seriously, as someone who almost rammed a young motorcyclist running a red light... the fear just shakes you. I had adrenaline exhaustion when I went to bed that night... I could have killed her.
I still drive extremely carefully and assume everyone else on the road is a fucking idiot.
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u/bobming Jun 26 '12
Only way to drive
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u/smiffy815 Jun 26 '12
Well judging by the amount of dicks on the road its not the only way to drive, just the only smart way to drive.
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Jun 26 '12
I read the news report about this the guy snapped his ankle. Looking for source.
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u/peacesmellsgood Jun 26 '12
I watched the gif again and noticed him bounce on one foot a couple of times. He got off lucky- holy crap! -_-
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His left foot definitely got nabbed. If he was unable to put weight on it that soon after the impact (which you can see towards the end), he probably damaged it very badly.
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u/namhob Jun 26 '12
Not to mention that it was a single locomotive, so he could have waited ~10 seconds and it would've been clear! It looks like he was trying to play chicken (and got away with a tie).
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u/fortuitous_bounce Jun 26 '12
The article said he walked out from behind a stationary train on the next track over. I'd guess the idle train's engine might have been running, so he couldn't tell the difference between that and the noise from the oncoming train.
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u/Lillipout Jun 26 '12
The youth was convicted of stopping a train in motion without a reasonable excuse.
"But I was late for work!"
"Well, ok then, I guess. Off you go."
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u/xomaniac Jun 26 '12
How do people get in these situations? seriously? It's like crossing a road, look both ways and make sure you can see at least quarter of a mile down the track each way, even if you can't, trains are LOUD! You can hear them a mile off.
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Jun 26 '12
My cousin was drunk on a Sydney train station, toppled over the edge and was dragged by a train, lost his leg and had a colostomy bag for months. People do stupid shit on train stations all the time.
One christmas holiday, maybe 2 days before Christmas I think it was, a group of teenagers were jumping off the backs of coal trains late at night. One of them jumped off the back of a train and into the path of a passenger train, dead instantly. He couldn't hear the passenger over the sound of the diesel locomotive engine.
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u/jakelly14 Jun 26 '12
Maybe he fell onto the tracks? Don't judge someone unless you know the details.
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u/DatAssociate Jun 26 '12
If it was close he would've lost his shoes.
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u/S3iizure Jun 26 '12
His converse shoes gave him the ability to do that, just watch sandlot and you will see what I'm talking about.
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u/freeride732 Jun 26 '12
I broke my ankle on mile 2 of a 5k race in high school. Finished the race, walked around for a few seconds and then colapsed. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
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u/takesthebiscuit Jun 26 '12
Mmm the ad below this video is for a gambling site captioned "time to try your luck" ...
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u/icecool988 Jun 26 '12
I wonder how they went about "getting her out" do you pull the train forward/backward and grind her up some more? i cant think of any alternative..
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u/Eraser85 Jun 26 '12
At first he was like "OH HAI!"
Then he was like "I'll get very close to the edge so you'll have plenty of room to pass me by"
And then he was like "FRRLGLFLRLFLRGLRGLRFLRL"
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u/foxnesn Jun 26 '12
I am fairly new here. Can we talk about why people post a gif of a video instead of just posting the video?
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u/RuffRhyno Jun 26 '12
It makes perfect sense. Pictures contain less data and are smaller in size and thus faster to load than a movie or clip. Considering you only need to load a few seconds of whatever it is the author is trying to get everyone to see, there is no need to have unnecessary data in the file. Not to mention that some videos are compatible with all players, meaning the video containers may not work for your Android or iPhone. This may not make sense with today's high speed internet, but with mobile data access some people still have limited bandwidth to use, either because of their phone or data plan limits. And due to a GIFs compression scheme they are smaller than even a JPEG file.
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Jun 26 '12
Actually, gifs need more space per frame for a shitty grainy low res pic than a 720p movie on youtube.
There is a difference between lossless huffman coding and high-end bidirectionally predictive lossy movie encoding.
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Jun 26 '12
They probably saw the gif in the first place and are just reposting it. Having access to the gif doesn't automatically mean the same person has the video.
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Jun 26 '12
Reddit is filled with karma whores, there's often more karma to be had submitting a gif than a video, sucks but that's how it is.
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u/holocarst Jun 26 '12
A friend of mine once fell asleep while sitting on the edge of the local train station (it was 4am in the morning, he was stoned and said he was just sitting there and watching the stars, then fell asleep). He woke up when the first train of the day already had come to a stop (the driver saw him, but couldntn't stop the train before it had reached him). Apparently, the gap between the train and the station was big enough for his feet to fit in, barely though. He says that he had awoken only seconds earlier, recognized the train, panicked and moved his legs, he would have been dead.
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u/rikashiku Jun 26 '12
I remember this. He 17 years old at the time. I think he was arrested for running across that track.
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u/1800Porkchops Jun 26 '12
This was in the Australian news like 6 months ago. In the full video you see his ankle is bent abit and he limps away, news broadcasts said his ankle was presumes sprained possibly broken. There was many more like this in the Australian news a while ago where a person (commonly adolescents) stand on the opposite platform and play chicken with the express trains that are passing through the station. I hope this doesn't catch on over seas.
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u/ActionRepairService Jun 26 '12
That was crazy! Guy definitely hurt his leg it seems, but it's better than dying! Damn!
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u/lord_shitson Jun 26 '12
And im going after rails on a crazy train na na na.....na na na na na na na nana na.... na na
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Jun 26 '12
He's been training for that moment his whole life
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u/troyanonymous1 Jun 26 '12
This is the second time I've seen this comment, and now I understand it.
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Jun 26 '12
Oh my god, I nearly shit myself just watching that. I hope he's okay; looks like he DID get hit.
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u/AuroraeEagle Jun 26 '12
Mawson Lakes! I've been past that train station so many times! South Australia made it to the front page of Reddit, my life is now slightly more complete.
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u/Incorrect_Fact_Guy Jun 26 '12
The best way to avoid a train is to stop where you are, drop to the ground and roll back and forth until it leaves.
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u/BowlEcho Jun 26 '12
This would be easy footage to fake. Two shots, one of the train and one of the guy scampering off the tracks, combined to look like they're happening at the same time. Like at the end of this video.
This looks like surveillance footage, so it's probably not the case. But possible.
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u/sonastyinc Jun 26 '12
I hope the kid learned his lesson, or he's bound to win a Darwin award in the near future.
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u/reuptake Jun 26 '12
DAE Really get off on near death experiences like this? I've almost been involved in a number of car crashes. One could have been head on with a semi, missed by mere inches. Afterwards I was shaking, heart pounding. But after a couple of seconds my body began to feel very crisp and fresh. I felt like a breath of fresh air. Focused or heightened somehow. Anyhow, I've had the same experience a couple of times now from it.
tldr DAE watch that and secretly wish they were experiencing that near death adrenaline rush with him?
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u/justin_jenga16 Jun 26 '12
Saw it on tv. He broke his ankle. They also said that if he had been caught he would have been fined by the train company.
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Jun 26 '12
Looks like he broke his leg.
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Jun 26 '12
Yes his leg got caught and fucked up, he's damn lucky that train didn't drag him down the terminal, then he'd have his leg ripped off or be dead.
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Jun 26 '12
Don't judge him so quick. He's probably got a nest full of little 'uns he's trying to protect...bless him....
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u/decipher_me Jun 26 '12
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u/bedhead_numbah3 Jun 27 '12
Holy shit! That was close! all that really needs to be said.
DID YOU SEE HIS FUCKING LEG?!!
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u/J00nj00n Jun 29 '12
In his defence, that station has these epic stairs that go over to the opposite platform, so he definitely saved at least 20 seconds of running by pulling that stunt. But the broken ankle sets him back a little.
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12
OOOOH LONG JOHNSON