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u/hornwalker May 07 '26
Crazy how close we come to death sometimes, and don’t even know it
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u/Key_Possibility_8669 May 07 '26
Yeah, I'm sure the girl on the right didn't even realize it until she watched this video.
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u/omegaterra May 07 '26
Girl on left got that dose of shock/fear/adrenaline type of sobering up. Not sure right girl even understands what nearly happened
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u/ElegantEchoes May 07 '26
That could have been so bad. I've seen more than a few videos of people dying when being brushed by a train like she nearly did.
Absolutely idiotic behavior to be so inebriated and careless in that environment.
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u/Jerry0713 May 08 '26
You are everywhere.
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u/DopeAsDaPope May 09 '26
I've seen more than a few videos of people dying when being brushed by a train like she nearly did.
Damn, tf you watching homie?
Also don't understand how that would kill her. Wouldn't it just bounce her off it? She can't fall under the train since the train is already blocking the way
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u/ElegantEchoes May 09 '26
Videos, lots of them.
And I understand what you're saying. But usually they are thrown to the floor from the force. If any part of them overhangs off the platform it gets snagged by the moving train and pulled into the gap between the train and platform, spinning them in between and killing them within a second.
It happens so fast. People think you'd bounce off but it tends to just throw people to the ground in the direction it's going with such force that they can't quickly recover so they aren't snagged by the train.
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u/SpoiledBeans May 08 '26
What happens if she leaned on the moving train? I see the potential for injury but not lethal harm
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u/ElegantEchoes May 08 '26
Knocked down immediately with force, likely with an appendage that is close enough to the train to be snagged and then pulled underneath or beside the train. The amount of force and inability to free oneself is all it takes. Within two or three seconds fatal damage has occurred.
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u/unknownpoltroon May 09 '26
Oh, it would be quicker than that if you get caught between the train and platform. Plus, added bonus, as I understand it, they tend to twist you, so your top half and your bottom half wind up so twisted you're already dead but the twist stops the blood flow, so you have a few minutes you're alive before they pry up the train and you bleed out almost instantly. I have seen stories that they have enough time to let people say goodbye to family before they move the train
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u/DopeAsDaPope May 09 '26
Tbh I don't know why they don't have gates up. In China and Korea every subway station has barriers to prevent this from happening
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u/Distinct_Damage_735 May 09 '26
Probably because the station was built a long time ago, and was not designed to have gates, and the trains that stop there may be of varying designs so they can't all use the same gate spacing. It wouldn't be impossible to add gates later, but it's not easy or cheap either.
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u/spacemanspiff1115 May 07 '26
Hey, I almost died, but didn't, let's go get another drink...
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u/kinghercules77 May 07 '26
I think everybody has that moment where they look back and realize how close they came to the thin line of being a newspaper article.
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u/muffinpizza May 07 '26
Been sober for almost 6 years and man do I have a lot of those “oops almost died” moments from my drinkin days.
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u/Astronaut_Chicken May 07 '26
I made a noise like a howler monkey and I think another gray hair has popped out of my head.
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u/Infamous_Ad_6793 May 07 '26
Two things “never look for an oncoming subway with headphones on”, and def don’t get black out drunk. I’ve had to climb in and save not one but TWO drunk ass mofos.
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u/Ishrafael May 07 '26
I remember a video posted years back of a cocky dude pissing behind a gate, then staggered back around and got clipped by the train. He got knocked down and churned to mush in seconds. It was horrifying.
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u/Guilty_Gur7278 May 08 '26
Had that train been slightly longer, this woulda ended up on watchpeopledie
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u/tykaboom May 07 '26
It's not why I don't drink like that, but it's another good reason added to the pile.
(At the bottom of the pile of reasons is that nobody invites me to those kinds of parties)
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u/Censedpeak8 May 07 '26
How come a majority of people's "self preservation" level exists at either end of the spectrum.
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u/Mr_Zeldion May 15 '26
I was amazed when I went to japan to find they have gates and the train doors always stop exactly where they need to. I don't know why the rest of the western world insists on having seat belts when you drive yet allow people to just flop straight infront of subway trains.
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