Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Retired Greyhound
“the hero placed Oshita’s body in the well between the rails “

That was risky.


Coincidentally, I was just reading an old issue of "Outdoor" magazine which had a survival quiz in it. One of the questions was "What should you do if you are on the tracks of the NY subway system and don't have time to climb onto the platform before the train reaches you?" The answer was lie down between the rails, because many of them (but not all) are designed to leave space for a person.
14 posted on 05/26/2010 4:15:47 PM PDT by fr_freak
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies ]


To: fr_freak
Coincidentally, I was just reading an old issue of "Outdoor" magazine which had a survival quiz in it. One of the questions was "What should you do if you are on the tracks of the NY subway system and don't have time to climb onto the platform before the train reaches you?" The answer was lie down between the rails, because many of them (but not all) are designed to leave space for a person.

One of the strangest deaths I've ever read about occurred in the NYC Subway. A homeless man was urinating on the tracks and somehow the stream of urine came into contact with the third rail electrocuting the poor devil. I read this in a book by a former NYC medical examiner whos name I'm sorry to say I no longer recall.

16 posted on 05/26/2010 4:29:15 PM PDT by Larry381 (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

To: fr_freak
Also. if she was knocked out cold by the fall onto the tracks, she is very fortunate to have not waken up while the train was going over her... she better thank GOD to be alive.
22 posted on 05/26/2010 9:03:08 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson