Here is an interesting question. You are on a motorcycle ten feet behind some train tracks. On the train tracks is a van which can't move. From the left is a commuter train which isn't slowing down fast enough to stop before it hits the van. Would you do what this man in Argentina did this morning and run off the bike and push the van to safety? Watch at the end of the video as the man releases all that adrenaline. I bet he has been shaking all day.
I would've puked there at the end. Wow.
ReplyDeletegood for him. That took amazing courage.
ahhhhh. I love that the gov run camera is zooming in like its a movie lol
ReplyDeletewhy didn't the person in the van get out?
ReplyDeleteThat's amazing. I honestly don't know if I would have done that. He could very easily have been hurt or killed himself helping someone else. Wow!!!
ReplyDeleteVery brave thing to do, but I really don't understand what made him push the van across the tracks and then double back across them. I would have kept going, but then again...I'm sitting here at a computer. Those people in the van owe him their lives, plus he and his friend and the passengers may have been hurt or even killed had he not acted so quickly.
ReplyDeletewowza. That was a ballsy move, don't think I could've/would've done it. Good for him.
ReplyDelete@Hilary--Yeah, why didn't the guy in the van get out??
ReplyDeleteStill, the other guy is a stud. That's courageous and a little bit crazy. Amazing.
I wonder why he didn't yell for his friend to help him? That's some crazy strength!
ReplyDeletethat's awesome..but ya get out of your fucking van...and also..why run back after in front of the train? why not stay on other side?
ReplyDeletelucky guy.
My grandfather and uncle were killed when they got stuck on railroad tracks before I was born, so I am very conscious of the possibilities when I cross tracks. I cannot imagine summoning the courage to do what that guy did! I don't think any of us know just how we would react in a situation like that - either we will do what needs to be done, or we will freeze.
ReplyDeleteThen puke, as Kara said.
I love how the guys are hugging & high-fiving afterward. So cute!
ReplyDeleteAdrenaline, you dont really think straight
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing guy! I most certainly would have done the same thing.
ReplyDeletePuke? I'd had peed down my leg. But good for that guy.
ReplyDeleteyeah, i was thinking the same thing, who the hell is doing the zooming in here?
ReplyDeleteThat person driving the van owes the hero BIG time. The least he could have done is stopped and said thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe guy from the van comes around at about 0:46 (you can see his feet underneath the train)to talk to the hero, who animatedly tells him what just happened. This is pretty awesome, I doubt I would have had the same kind of courage.
ReplyDeleteForget the Kardashians, forget those Jersey Shore fucktards - this is the person who should be on the covers of magazines. This guy is a real hero. Wow.
ReplyDeletethis is incredible!
ReplyDeleteIsn't the guy who comes around the right side in the black shirt the van driver? He doesn't appear to get off the train...or look overly grateful.
ReplyDeleteAmazing, but why do they have a manned camera on some railroad crossing?
ReplyDeleteI'm with Lil. THAT man is a hero. I don't understand why the guy didn't get out of the van or why the hero came back either, but I think panic explains a lot of it. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteHoly moly, I hope the universe throws this guy a few bones.
ReplyDeleteHOLY CRAP!!! That was incredible!!! I wish everyone could react in an emergency like that!
ReplyDelete@Babs my great-grandfather was killed in St. Paul on a double railroad tracks. He waited for one train to pass, then crossed behind it and another was coming in the opposite direction. So sad, but yes, I feel like I have always harbored some sort of fear for trains knowing this.
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You have to try and help. How could you live with yourself, otherwise? Incredible footage.
ReplyDeleteThis is the coolest thing I have seen all day. We need more people like that, and less people like Heidi and Spencer and the Kardashians.
ReplyDelete@ chihuahuense, my Great-Grand UNCLE was killed in that area the same way! Maybe we are cousins?
ReplyDeleteThat video was harrowing. Reminds me of that video from a few months ago of the Russian guy just barely missing being smooshed by a bus.
lol, that would be weird. His surname was Reusch.
ReplyDeleteLil, Lauren, Rocket Queen: me too! What cojones! This guy HAS to be on a magazine cover at some point just as an example and inspiration to others. (Kneepads, are you listening?) Honestly, I don't know if I could have done what he did, but, I wasn't there at the moment, so, who knows. People often surprise themselves--this guy sure did!
ReplyDelete@Robert: They have a robotic camera because of the robberies and the lots of cars (like the minivan) that pass the barriers even when they are low.
ReplyDeleteToday in the local news they showed that the white minivan was drived by a 17yo guy that stole it from his parents... it's a weird history, and the guy that helped the minivan it's almost a hero and a "little" Saint now.
By the way, I'm from Argentina, first time poster so sorry for my very BAD English!! Greets to Enty and the posters here :)!!
not bad English at all....thanks for the backstory
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