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Commuter Saves Man on Subway Tracks

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  1. WB123456789 WB123456789 is offline

    Skokie, IL
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    Jan 3rd, 2007 (1/3/2007 12:57pm)

    WOW!!!

    theres a short news clip in this link.....

    http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles...00010000000001

    NEW YORK (Jan. 3) - Trying to rescue a teenager from a subway track as a train roared in, Wesley Autrey faced a harrowing choice: Try to pull the young man to the platform, or push him down and hope to find a safe harbor between the rails.

    "I tried to pull him up, but I had to make a split decision whether or not to struggle and maybe end up getting us both killed," Autrey said later. "So I just chose to dive on top of him and pin him down."

    It worked. The train passed over them, saving the 19-year-old who had fallen, police said. A relative identified him as Cameron Hollopeter, a student at the New York Film Academy.

    Hollopeter's stepmother, Rachel Hollopeter, said Autrey was "an angel."

    "He was so heroic," she said early Wednesday in a telephone interview. "If he wasn't there, this would be a whole different call."

    The teenager had a medical problem Tuesday and tumbled onto the tracks at a station in northern Manhattan, police said.

    Autrey, waiting with his two young daughters, jumped down and rolled with the young man into the trough between the rails as a southbound train came into the station.

    The drainage trough is typically about 12 inches deep but can be as shallow as 8 or as deep as 24, a New York City Transit spokesman said.

    The train's operator put the emergency brakes on. Before the train stopped, two cars passed over the men - with about 2 inches to spare, Autrey said.

    Neither man was hit, police said. Authorities said the rescued man was in stable condition later Tuesday at a local hospital.

    Autrey, 50, declined medical attention. Onlookers cheered him, hugged him and called him a hero.

    "I don't feel like I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed help," he told The New York Times. "I did what I felt was right."
     
  2. Brooklyn999 Brooklyn999 is offline

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    Jan 3rd, 2007 (1/3/2007 1:01pm) in reply to WB123456789

    I hope to be that good of a human one day.
  3. Customflip Customflip is offline

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    Jan 3rd, 2007 (1/3/2007 1:02pm) in reply to Brooklyn999

    Like I said a couple threads down this guy is amazing and should get a medal for his actions, just fucking amazing.
  4. CrownMyCoke CrownMyCoke is offline

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    Jan 3rd, 2007 (1/3/2007 1:06pm) in reply to WB123456789

    Need more people like this in America.

    He needs a medal like CF said.
  5. hostile hostile is offline

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    Jan 3rd, 2007 (1/3/2007 1:09pm) in reply to CrownMyCoke

    i couldn't imagine doing something like that.

    The guy is a class act and should be praised like no other. This feel good story just proves there are decent ppl out there still.

    unlike us degenerates who never leave the computer desk.
  6. jerichoholic jerichoholic is online now

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    Jan 3rd, 2007 (1/3/2007 1:10pm) in reply to hostile

    you have to poop sometime or another.......
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