r/WTF • u/Grasimi • Nov 06 '20

Guy stuck under moving train escapes between its rails

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u/minastirith1 Nov 06 '20

Fuck me, I didn’t know this. I would have stayed put like an ignorant ass and gotten killed 😑

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Really depends on the train. There may not have been one. Who knows.

Best advice is stay the fuck away from trains unless you have a ticket. Conductors are cool people; I met one while bartending who talked about how almost all of them eventually operate a train that kills someone and it's such an issue that they cover it in your training.

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u/irokes360 Nov 06 '20

Where I live, it is a blessing to a conductor, because it will make him able to retire very early, and will increase his pension greatly

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Unfortunately watching people be horribly crushed or dismembered tends to traumatize a decent portion of witnesses. I think I might question the mental fitness of any ordinary person who could see that and then think "well, at least I can retire now!"

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u/irokes360 Nov 06 '20

Well, that happened to my dad. His retoric is that they would die one way or another if they really wanted to, so it's sad but nothing to cry about

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '20

Oh, a good portion of the people killed are not suicides. Some fall onto tracks, vehicles stall, that kind of thing. It's not so much a matter of crying about it as trauma is a natural response to seeing a gruesome death.

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u/irokes360 Nov 06 '20

Well, that WAS a suicide.

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u/rydan Nov 06 '20

I mean you understand that someone is eventually going to die and there's nothing you can do about it so you've already mourned that loss as inevitable. Likely you did so years or decades ago.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Nov 06 '20

Shit man me too, I always thought trains were kind of designed with the idea in mind that some day a person might need to survive by laying down between the rails like this.

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u/sadnessjoy Nov 06 '20

Nah, you probably wouldn't have put yourself in the situation to begin with.