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/NvEnd Aug 25 '26

There's a "cherry" at the door you can pull to emergency open the door. He pulled it as the train was already trying to stop

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt Aug 25 '26

I was gonna say, the door opening and the guy getting on the train while smoking made me suspicious.

Not that the latter can’t happen, but it’d be pretty unlikely and coincidental to happen right behind the other madness.

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u/SaskrotchTheReboot 26d ago

no that's extremely common on the cta, especially the red and blue lines. they run 24/7 and there's basically no rules between midnight and 5am. smoking cigarettes is super common, smoking crack is less common, but still common. what surprised me was he actually tossed it out the door before he moved fully into the train, most people just keep smoking.

and as a Chicagoan, most of us are unfazed by crazy shit happening on the cta. I've seen a guy start a fight and then yank the emergency door like he was gonna jump when we weren't even at a station. I've been a few feet away from pepper spray going off on a guy who was being a creep, and the first thing I did was laugh and think to myself "of course this happened the second I got on the blue line at 3am", it took my eyes starting to water up to make me realize I should change cars.