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Massachusetts Woman's Bag Gets Stuck in Moving Subway Train
MyFoxBoston ^ | December 4, 2009 | Fox Boston

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.

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TOPICS: Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: letitgo
What part of moving train did she not understand?

Must have been one of those $700 purses you need to hold the money you no longer got.

1 posted on 12/06/2009 10:28:02 AM PST by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Slow news day. :D


2 posted on 12/06/2009 10:30:07 AM PST by library user
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To: library user

Voted for Ded Kennedy (D-HELL) her whole life...


3 posted on 12/06/2009 10:32:03 AM PST by jessduntno (Make the Democrats STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation...dump them out in 2010.)
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To: sodpoodle
I saw that earlier and thought the same thing, but after viewing a few times, I think the strap of the purse was around her arm (wrist) and she had to struggle to get her arm out of the strap.....
4 posted on 12/06/2009 10:36:45 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: sodpoodle

Sounds like a cartoon episode. Life imitating Art?


5 posted on 12/06/2009 10:36:47 AM PST by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: sodpoodle

Just....damn. Good thing it wasn’t a child or seeing eye dog stuck in those doors.


6 posted on 12/06/2009 10:39:18 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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To: sodpoodle

Did she die?! It doesn’t say.


7 posted on 12/06/2009 10:58:56 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (I'm sick to death of RomneyCare & the RomneyTruthFile on every page.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

*******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”


8 posted on 12/06/2009 11:12:08 AM PST by sodpoodle (Stop wasting our wealth and start telling the truth.)
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To: sodpoodle

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.


9 posted on 12/06/2009 11:12:21 AM PST by Dogfaced Soldier (Strength and Honor)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

End of video - states “She was not seriously injured”


10 posted on 12/06/2009 11:19:07 AM PST by sodpoodle (Stop wasting our wealth and start telling the truth.)
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To: sodpoodle
I wonder if she eventually got her bag back, or did it disappear at the next stop?
11 posted on 12/06/2009 12:12:39 PM PST by wbarmy (Hard core, extremist, and right-wing is a little too mild for my tastes.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp; sodpoodle; All

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


12 posted on 12/06/2009 12:41:26 PM PST by RebelTex (FREEDOM IS EVERYONE'S RIGHT! AND EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY!)
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To: Doogle

“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.


13 posted on 12/06/2009 5:36:42 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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