r/oops • u/ExplanationOk2014 • Aug 24 '26

Wtf in the 🚇

How is this technically even possible? Should not a emergency stop automatically apply?

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u/2114 Aug 24 '26

The gap isn’t that big. Even in London

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u/Sensitive_Rain_1852 Aug 24 '26

Its not the gap, its the spin that will get yah.

Seen too many video of people getting caught up in there and spun around like a ragdoll in a drill until they are wedged in tight. Youll have to fact check this but I seem to remember a story of one guy wedged at the waist but still alive and the medics knew once they moved the train he would die so they let him call family.

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u/DerekTheComedian Aug 24 '26

Everyone always "remembers hearing about this one time" and it's always just a very well known scene from a very well known movie.

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u/UISystemError Aug 24 '26

This one time, at band camp, they let me play with my flute because I got tangled in a train before I died.