Quick acting Police Officer prevents man from looking like billboard behind him
22 Comments on Quick acting Police Officer prevents man from looking like billboard behind him
Comments are closed.
iOTWreport.com ©2024 ----- iOTWreport is not responsible for the content of comments. All opinions in comments are solely the commenter's.
Wow. Thank God for that LEO.
Whew! That was close!
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a failed suicide attempt. The guy might be lawyering up right now. What’s he doing crossing railroad track by himself in a wheelchair?
A certain Johnny Cash song will have a special meaning for him….
Forget the solar system, scientists need to do research on railroad tracks and find out how they possess this uncanny ability to shut off vehicle engines, act like ten foot tall barriers against tires, or suddenly create a magnetic field that most things cannot get escape. Amazing damn things, if you think about it.
If that gentleman isn’t an LEO champion for the rest of his life, someone should put him back on the tracks.
This is why it takes a special person to be a cop. Me? My greatest motivation would have been so I didn’t have to watch the guy get squashed like a bug all over the place. It would have really ruined my day.
I know I’m selfish. But the sight of blood — even my own — makes me pass out.
Joe’s right, I think. Either the guy has such diminished capacity or wanted to end it all.
Why the ambulance STAT! Was his foot still caught in the wheelchair/tracks?
Abigail,
Don’t blame yourself for some thing you have no control over.
Nah, let’s defund the police.
AA, the ambulance was probably because he was being combative for stopping his suicide attempt. Just a guess can’t really see much in that video.
I’m pretty sure calling an ambulance would be SOP just to make sure nothing happened to the man.
And I agree with Joe and AA, my first thought was that it was an attempted suicide. Not trying to make light of the situation, BUT…a certain Lieutenant Dan and Forrest Gump come to mind.
AA: I read that one of his legs was hit by the train although the injury is not life threatening.
Look at the end of the video.
The guys legs are blurred FOR SOME REASON.
– Were they injured by the train?
Her instincts were correct and should be applauded. However, she didn’t have the damn upper body strength to drag him to safety let alone throw him over the shoulder and run. You can see from the video that his legs were still on the track when train arrived.
AbigailAdams – you’re so funny, you red-blooded steak eater!
“But the sight of blood — even my own — makes me pass out.”
…guy did this on the tracks behind the Sears Auto Center I used to work at. He parked in a space all neat and proper, courteously left a note on the seat of his unlocked car, then apparently lay down on the tracks to wait.
Seems like it would take rare aplomb to just wait to get literally freight trained, or drugs.
Gonna go with drugs.
…at any rate, he was nicely sectioned with some bits the train dragged a bit, but they were fairly clean if slighly diagonal separations of parts of limbs from other parts of limbs, but the noggin was fairly obliterated…
…some time later, I got an engineer’s perspective on this. One time I was driving when we got called to a young lady having some post-surgical issue, don’t remember what ’cause I wasn’t the box guy that night and that wasn’t the memorable part for me. Whatever her thing was, she was stable and her surgeon wanted her back where it was done, so we routed to a hospital about 20 minutes away, with her dad in the front seat with me (wasn’t uncommon then, we weren’t Covid-scared, and it was just easier for everyone including the hospital althogh not without it’s dangers, but different story, another day…), and since we had the highway to ourselves (O-dark-early in the AM, natch, always was), so I didn’t need the siren, meaning I could talk to the guy to keep him mellow and learn a little more about life, which was one of the best things about that whole experience.
Turned out he was a train operator of some experience for what was then Chessie Systems, which doesn’t involveba lot of steering, but DOES involve some planning for little things like starting, stopping, and going as fast as possible without falling over. I was never personally treated to a train v. car or train v. human wreck, so the talk turned to that.
He said EVERY engineer, without exception, has maimed or killed someone at one time or another, but that’s due to people thinking trains can stop like cars, when they can actually take a mile or more to stop, depending on the size and speed, more if the driver didn’t want to derail tank cars of fuel and toxic chemicals, so it wasn’t that they couldn’t SEE it, they just physically couldn’t do anything ABOUT it. He told of a minivan he hit once where the driver got everyone out but stupidly stayed to fight, and how he looked that guy full in the face as tge train took him and saw the terror as the man realized how massive hus mistake really was. Killed him right in front of his family, not a damn thing he could do about it. He also said he’d seen suicides by train, some who lay on the tracks, and some who jumped in front, but it reall didn’t matter ’cause he really couldn’t stop, and DAMN sure couldn’t SWERVE.
This guy was probably like that. Trains on that stretch were usually just coming out of the yard, and they were mostly running thru underpasses so speeds were gathering pretty good as there were no crossings. As a result, even though it was a relatively straight stretch, there wouldn’t be a ton the engineer on THAT train could do about it even if he SAW the guy…and it was night, so probably didn’t see him anyway.
He may have got up to run, my traveling companion said they sometimes did, but usually too late. That story was cut off as some fool also cut off my AMBULANCE (lotsa drunks around 2 AM), and then we were at the hospital so I will never know what else he had to say on the subject.
Any road, death by train isn’t rare, but neither is a suicde gesture for attention, which could explain the fighting too as guy needs to make a show of it. It’s tough to tell which, and it wasn’t my job to figure it out anyway, but crazy is not rare and neither is people doing stupid things.
It’s why cops kill themselves sometimes, too. Saving ungrateful assholes from themselves CAN get to you if you don’t compartmentalize and do it long enough…
Wheelchairs get stuck like that frequently. It is very bad idea to attempt a railroad crossing in a wheelchair without someone there to assist.
He suffered a leg injury is what I read this morning.
Leg injury is doable…… He was already riding around in a wheelchair.
I hope he gets the help he needs.
AbigailAdams
AUGUST 13, 2020 AT 5:09 PM
“This is why it takes a special person to be a cop. Me? My greatest motivation would have been so I didn’t have to watch the guy get squashed like a bug all over the place.”
..they ARE easier to clean up when they’re more or less intact, but if they get hit hard enough in the chest, you’d be surprised how little bleeding there is even with horrific gashes…
A group of my co-workers at the plant I worked at witnessed a man stop his car, get out, strip down and run through a ditch and squatted down on railroad tracks with a freight train coming at 55 MPH. They watched in horror as the guys body exploded with the force of, well, a freight train. They were still finding body parts a week later. It was learned he had terminal cancer.
That LEO was a hero and now she is going to be sued for not saving the guy’s chair and for the PTDS that he has to live with now because of her. Just wait- it will happen.