Posted on 12/06/2009 10:28:02 AM PST by sodpoodle
A 34 year-old Quincy woman was trying to board a Red Line train at South Station when the doors closed on her pocketbook. The train began to move away with her bag wedged in the doors.
The woman ran alongside the moving train shouting for help. At the last minute, she let go prior to going off the end of the platform but she collided with a wall.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxboston.com ...
Must have been one of those $700 purses you need to hold the money you no longer got.
Slow news day. :D
Voted for Ded Kennedy (D-HELL) her whole life...
Sounds like a cartoon episode. Life imitating Art?
Just....damn. Good thing it wasn’t a child or seeing eye dog stuck in those doors.
Did she die?! It doesn’t say.
*******Did she die?! It doesn’t say.*****
Inclined to believe if she had died the headline would read: “Mass. Woman Loses Bag and Life in Subway Train”
Reminds me of John Tierney column from the New York Times from 10 years ago in which he developed a math quiz that most New Yorkers could relate to. Here are a couple of questions and answers relevant to the incident on the Red Line:
Q 1. The doors are closing as you reach the subway train, but you just manage to stick a hand between them. Your move delays the train 10 seconds as the doors reopen and you climb aboard. You have saved yourself a three-minute wait until the next train. If there are 1,800 passengers on the train, how much total time have they lost?
A1: Five hours.
Q2. If the train had started moving with your hand stuck in the door, how many of the passengers would have felt sorry?
A2: One, if you count yourself as a passenger.
End of video - states “She was not seriously injured”
It appears at the end of the video that the train stopped and she looked between the wall and train to see if her bag was still caught in the door.
There is another video on the page linked that I watched about a 9 year old boy making a fantastic goal in a hockey 1 on 1 match. It was a great move and that kid will be a star someday. Here’s the video:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Maine_Boys_Hockey_Goal_fc_20091016_4073994
“the strap of the purse was around her arm (wrist) and she had to struggle to get her arm out of the strap.....”
I had the same problem in Atlanta once but it was a mugger instead of a train.
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