Posted on 11/20/2009 10:22:26 AM PST by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of a Portland, Oregon father being separated from his 3 year-old son when the door of the subway train they were exiting suddenly closed after the boy pushed a button. The video shows the boy exiting first holding his Dad's hand. Then suddenly, the door closes and the boy is left alone outside the train with the father inside the train.
A Good Samaritan woman standing close by saw it all and came to the boy's assistance, taking him by the hand and waiting with him for seven minutes until the father was able to return. The Dad is trying to get answers as to why the buttons he pushed to re-open the door and to contact the train conductor did not seem to work.
It's good to see a happy ending to what could have been a tragic story. This woman's actions show there are still a lot of really fine people in our country. . . . (VIDEO)
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This is a fine caring woman who should be heralded as a model citizen. Of course if it was a man who held the boy, he would probably be charged as a pedophile.
I’ve seen this happen with the trains in the Atlanta airport, which doors do not bounce back when obstructed.
The kids are always taken care of until the distraught parents get back.
I’ve seen this kind of thing a number of times with adults and teens. I recently saw a group of teens split up because they were goofing around at the train doors.
Laughed myself silly.
I now have a plan with my 11-year-old to meet at the very next station if it ever happens to us.
hey dad, next time if the door is closing don’t pull your arm back in. let the door close on it and the conductor will open the doors again. the door won’t sever your arm, big guy.
You shouldn’t bet your life or limbs on automatic doors working the way they’re supposed to.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/elevator.asp
No kidding. I used to ride this train (it's called MAX it's not a subway) with my little kids when they were this age. There were a couple of times when this almost happened, and I just forced the doors open with my hand.
This dad let go of his kid and pulled his arm back into the train.
I'd rather have my arm cut off than face my wife after losing my child on a train platform. What if that woman hadn't have been there?
Wow, I was about to post a reply that the same thing happened to my wife and 6 year old son at the Atlanta Airport!
I guess it must happen a lot there! I was beside myself and tried to break the doors down to get him. Luckily, there was a security guard right there and brought him on the next train.
Weird how all is fine one second and you turn into a caged lion the next. I never saw that in myself before.
Just the other day on the DC Metro, I saw a gal stick her arm between the closing doors. In her hand she had a plastic bag containing her lunch and tupperwear stuff. Door closed, she pulled her arm out, left the bag of stuff hanging inside the car. Buh-bye lunch stuff.
Thank heavens for that little guy’s guardian angel, and the good lady who helped.
As a parent, when mine were little, I would have gone completely crazy if something like this happened!
“I’d rather have my arm cut off than face my wife after losing my child on a train platform”
You obviously chose your wife wisely!
if all doors do not close, the train can literally not be put into motion. this guy seemed to have the reaction most people have to a bee flying around them. i'm just sayin that it seems to me a little more intestinal fortitude might have been required. especially when his own kid was involved.
Here is video of a Portland, Oregon father being separated from his 3 year-old son when the door of the subway train they were exiting suddenly closed after the boy pushed a button. The video shows the boy exiting first holding his Dad's hand. Then suddenly, the door closes and the boy is left alone outside the train with the father inside the train.
Well, I've been on the MAX lines and those doors will not close on anything that is in the way. The doors will actually barely touch you and they will open again.
What happened here, according to the news report, the handicap ramp button was pushed. This will always cause the doors to close first, and then the ramp will extend outside of the MAX car (onto the platform) and then the door will open again. Now, if someone is standing on the ramp (on the inside), I don't believe the ramp will extend and then the doors won't open again. Or if the handicap button is pushed too late in the cycle (when the train is ready to move again), the doors will only close and the ramp won't extend (so you get to know to push that button early enough, if you want the ramp to extend).
However, as I said before, all that is necessary to do is to hold your hand int he door or to stand in it and it won't close and the MAX won't go either. They don't move until all the doors are closed and locked. I've done that many times in holding the doors open for someone else to get on (as they come running and they don't want to miss the MAX). Sometimes I get the train operator to hollar and tell me to let the door go, too... LOL...
The father was a "wus" about not keeping his hand in the door. If he had done that, there would never have been a problem... Maybe he'll learn, if it happens again... LOL...
In addition, and if I remember correctly, there is also an emergency stop lever or button which will stop the MAX. It's an "all-out-emergency stop, and the father could have done that, too.
I suppose that many people in our society, these days, wants everyone else to take care of them and make it a "cradle-to-grave", impossible-to-do-anything-wrong environment, so that no one has to think or take care of themselves...
You shouldn’t bet your life or limbs on automatic doors working the way they’re supposed to.
They will on the MAX Line in Portland. There's no problem there. People do it all the time to hold the door open for someone else running for the MAX... LOL...
I saw this happen with a little girl once on the subway in Philly. Except the little girl ended up on the train, and her mother was caught outside.
A man and woman rushed to the sobbing girl’s aid, and the man had the little girl get out at the next stop to wait for her mother. The train pulled away. And I’ve always regretted not jumping up and running out the door to stand with the little girl.
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