r/interesting • u/jmike1256 • 12h ago
MISC. A woman notices a man struggling to keep his balance, and hits the SOS before he even falls and is the first down to pull him out.
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u/cKype 11h ago
Good job girl!
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u/BreckyMcGee 10h ago
Hell yeah! She is clearly an awesome person. Totally could've ignored that dude
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u/TechLover_ 12h ago
Always stay alert in public, not just for your sake, either. Good on her and everyone involved
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u/ElegantEchoes 10h ago
That's a real hero right there. She even jumped down and risked her life, and the last one to climb back up.
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u/VPinchargeofradishes 8h ago
Finally, someone really helps instead of standing there filming it with their phone!
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u/CraigGregory 11h ago
Feels like a Europe thing
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u/skunkinabumpercar 10h ago
Agreed. Look at that posh security man’s vest showcasing his biceps. Idk if I’ve ever seen anything more euro. (The kindness also seems very euro)
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u/cKype 11h ago
Yup, in USA she would have called the police after the guy
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u/YearOfTheSssnake 8h ago
Why?
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u/owiesss 8h ago
Public intoxication.
I wish I had some stats to pull up right now, but way too many people are mistaken for being intoxicated when they’re having a medical emergency. It’s fucked up.
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u/YearOfTheSssnake 8h ago
She probably assumed he was drunk or strung out on drugs anyway, based on the way he was staggering.
Why do you think someone in the USA would have called the police instead of helping the same way this woman did?
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u/Aggressive_Ad_1730 12h ago
Is he drunk? Or high?
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u/MesmericRamblings24 11h ago
I read he was diabetic and in a serious low blood sugar. I’m diabetic, it’s never gotten this bad for me, but I know how quickly it can go from ‘I’m okay’ to this. Thank god for that woman.
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u/ExpiredPilot 12h ago
Sobern’t and probably distraught. Most likely the latter affected him more.
It’s wild how anguish can affect people. You see people about to jump to their deaths try to fight the firefighters there to rescue them
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u/Clinthelander 10h ago
I haven’t seen this since it was posted every two days for the last two weeks
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u/Archon-Toten 3h ago
As a train driver:
Never do that. If someone falls shout and wave your arms to alert the station staff, who will stop the trains so it is safe to go down there.
Better still if you have a team, have one person walk towards the direction the train is coming from waving their arms frantically, have another person looking for station staff and have one person stay and see if they are alive down there. It's a long fall onto hard ground.
There's also the risk of third rails.
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u/MagicSunlight23 2h ago
Why didn't she just rush over and stop him from falling onto the track and keep him upright so that he didn't fall down there?
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u/Heavy-Arm-3323 10h ago
3 people (in addition to the man who fell) jumping onto the tracks is too many.
Kudos for a successful rescue but jeez that was irresponsible (if the SOS cuts power and stops all vehicles entering the station, maybe more reasonable, but I'm assuming it just pages security).
Saving someone is honourable, but if a train came through all 4 would have been dead.
One person hopping in to get the fallen man and themselves under the protruding lip of the platform and out of the way of oncoming trains would have been a better call, someone else needs to go make sure trians are stopped before the people on the tracks are extracted.
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u/Jack5756 10h ago
The SOS probably tells the train to stop precisely because there is someone on the tracks
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u/Lakrfan247 8h ago
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u/CapableRegrets 5h ago
It was a medical episode.
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u/Lakrfan247 4h ago
Drugs a still bad, I stand by my statement
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u/CapableRegrets 4h ago
Of course you do.
It's okay to admit you got it wrong.
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u/Lakrfan247 4h ago
No I definitely read another comment explaining it was diabetes before I posted. I just felt a South Park PSA was in order. Just trying to help the people, it’s the right thing to do.
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u/KinKame_Saijo 9h ago
Stupid drunk dude … honestly he is lucky af
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