Drunken Man Electrocuted to Death on NYC Subway (Video is Graphic) Dont watch if you dont want to see it!

so many heros on here today , id do this id do that , your a cunt your a cowerd ...

fact is once he fell on the track you touch him your gona light up like a Christmas tree ..you fucking thick assholes ...

I just hope one day you get to whitness such an event and when you the pea size brain hero jumps on and grabs him by the hand , il be there ot piss on you ..

your a bunch of absolute wanker's on this thread , you have probably never saw something or anything serious like this ..

well i can tell you what ive seen ...

someone drown
someone on fire
someone shot

and in every instance i didnt do shit ...shock affects you in ways you just dont comprehend when these things happen , so dont go on like stupid gay little hero's when you know fuck all about it ..

The only thing i would of done iff i was there when this happened would be to light a fag off his affro ...

your fucking stupid enough to get on a LIVE TRACK then your the twat that will deal with it ... not fucking me

I have a family i aint losing my life for some fucking idiot's actions ....

you wanna be a fucking hero new zealand fag go to afghanistan and help the boys , iff not shut the fuck up , about you would do this do that ,

you wouldnt do shit ...

I wonder why anyone didn't call NYC Center Subway Control and have them turn off the power to the third rail?

Shut your fucking pie hole. You obviously didn't watch the video. You can't read, speak, type, or spell correctly. If you had a brain, you would have seen a man leaning against the platform in the beginning of the video with two women trying to encourage him to get up from the train corridor. At that time a couple of men could have easily given him a hand up. He was no where near the third rail. Many people looked on as he continued to stand there and later stumbled over to the rail, fell down across them and began to short out the tracks. You are an idiot! Go sot off!

Exactly.

And I wonder if people heard the woman who offered out her hand say, "WE care."

I can only guess that he must have suggested that no-one cares about him.

You know?

There are people on this forum in far better shape than that poor man and many of us have expressed that WE'RE worn out and ready to move on.

That guy probably would have felt like a king living in conditions we are used to.

I DO believe in some instances death is a better solution than some qualities of life.

I'm just grateful this poor man no longer has to suffer the glares directed towards him, the judgments, the hunger, the rats he slept with, a crippled body and perhaps most of all, memories of a time when he was once loved and full of hope.

So, so sad.

Miggy

Shut your fucking pie hole. You obviously didn't watch the video. You can't read, speak, type, or spell correctly. If you had a brain, you would have seen a man leaning against the platform in the beginning of the video with two women trying to encourage him to get up from the train corridor. At that time a couple of men could have easily given him a hand up. He was no where near the third rail. Many people looked on as he continued to stand there and later stumbled over to the rail, fell down across them and began to short out the tracks. You are an idiot! Go sot off!

oh piss off you , some lefty are we , like big black balls do we ... iff you were there you wouldnt of done a damn thing expect clutch your handbag

all those who were on the platform are guilty of murder.

that power cut off button should have been pressed as soon as the drunk/drugged guy was on the track, when they were trying to convince him to get back on the platform.

that is when they should have pressed the button.

and because they did nothing they are all guilty of murder.

ignorance and ignorance of the law is no defence

He's (the guy on the tracks)the type of psycho who would throw someone else on the tracks. They are all over the transit system in NY.

The biggest idiot is the woman trying to give her hand to him. He might have pulled her down there with him.

All that being said, there is a button on the end of each platform that can be pressed to cut power to the 3rd rail.

Hit it, and wait for the police, who are then going to wait for Emergeny Service to get him off the tracks.

I doubt he was homeless and I doubt he was a poor misunderstood black man just getting his act together.
Nice bright white shoes yes? Probably Nike's.
It is always Nike's.

More like he was a druggy P.O.S who no doubt robbed, raped and terrorized people who had lives, had jobs, families.
One less leech sucking us dry.

No worries though, he had a handful of little sprogs by random women. He passed on his highly evolved genetic code.
Count on it.

People die every damn day in horrific ways. How can these bleeding hearts have the gall to preach to us when they live safely behind a gated community?
Have you been robbed or vandalized by your beloved pets?
Probably not.

I think you lovers of African culture should really think about letting your daughter date one, have some children.
I mean it is the thing to do right?
It would prove how tolerant you are, you could show off little Tyrone to your fellow open minded Christian friends right?

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Dagon R’lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Agreed.

The worst is the desk jockeys claiming the bystanders are murderers. Anyone making such an accusation is a genuine asshole, who clearly does not know shit about shit.

First, I ride the NYC subway virtually every weekday, and I have never seen nor even heard of a cutoff switch. The argument about whether or not there is one in the tunnel is ludicrous. Even if there is, 99.9% of subway riders don't know about it, so it's a moot point.

Secondly, especially at 34th/Penn, which is a byzantine maze, it is not easy to reliably find an officer. it's not like there is a gendarme, leaning on a nightstick, tipping his hat to the ladies, on every platform. There is probably an intercom button some place on the platform, but it would certainly take the average person a couple of minutes to find it.

Third, for all the self-confidence espoused here, the fact is most people in these situations freeze. It is just human nature. Your brain has a hard time switching from its daily humdrum habit to fully acknowledge the emergency. This is a very well-known psychological phenomenon and has contributed in the past to worse outcomes in subway emergencies.


Finally, speaking as a big, strong guy who has done plenty of physical lifting, trying to help someone onto a platform is a difficult task - you do not have much leverage, but it is normally possible since the individual is trying to climb out at the same time. Lifting dead weight is very difficult. Lifting a person who is resisting is basically impossible. This guy was resisting. Trying to do more than hold him would have ended up with someone else down on the tracks.

Speaking as someone who has dealt with emergencies in other parts of the world, Americans are actually exceptionally good at dealing with situations where strangers are in harm's way and will typically make much greater personal risks to aid them. This is not a slight against Europeans - Europeans typically also react well, although to be honest, not as courageously as Americans. It's a cultural thing. Both cultures are much more encouraging of personal risk to help strangers than most cultures in the world.

These comments make me very sad. Look how much people assume.

To ME, this didn't look at all like a guy who was simply drunk. He looked like he had been homeless for some time (judging by his attire).

Maybe he lived down there like many do.

I know the tunnels under the casinos in Vegas are PACKED with homeless.

As for the people on the platform not doing more, what if they didn't know what to do?

How many were vacationers? After all, there are very few and by the comments most locals knew the trains would be running late.

I've visited NYC several times. I sure as hell don't know about buttons to press, or third rails, etc.

I can only assume by that big yellow line that your probably not supposed to step further than that point while waiting for a train.

I just wonder how many people would have passed this same guy had they seen him on the street begging for change to buy a decent meal.

Funny how a "smelly old bum" becomes important once his death is witnessed.

RIP, buddy. Surely you are in a better place now than the hell you experienced in your final years on this earth.

Miggy

Shut your fucking pie hole. You obviously didn't watch the video. You can't read, speak, type, or spell correctly. If you had a brain, you would have seen a man leaning against the platform in the beginning of the video with two women trying to encourage him to get up from the train corridor. At that time a couple of men could have easily given him a hand up. He was no where near the third rail. Many people looked on as he continued to stand there and later stumbled over to the rail, fell down across them and began to short out the tracks. You are an idiot! Go sot off!

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i think you will clearly see a wooden object is not he righ thing to use.

darwin, mate.

darwin.

you do dull things, you take the flak for it, alive or dead.

there are 7 billion of us on this rock right now, so empathy is in short supply. In hindsight, every single one of the bystanders would have stopped him doing what he did I suppose, but if you get THAT insensible, if you ALLOW yourself to get in that state, and something like that happens, who's to blame?

YOU!

having said that, i can't talk, because I have got incredibly insensible in drink. I suppose I've just been lucky. A few years back I was in town, and about 9pm found myself under a car, people saying to me 'it's ok, the ambulance will be here now'

I thought I was in bed.

had a hell of a bump on my head, and felt terrible for a couple of weeks, but I survived.

hope no-one videoed it!

What a moron you are. People make mistakes as I'm sure you have. The only difference...luck.

why would someone post some morbid stuff like this?!?

"Hey, hey I got your shirt!"

Moran of the year!

Of course I haven't seen a subway since I was a child; but, seriously, I had no idea there was such a button. Is that common knowledge in the states?

Yep...the would-be brave heroes sitting comfortably behind their computers. lol