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originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: AgarthaSeed
a reply to: face23785
Do NY subways have those emergency handles to stop the car? There's video of the car full of smoke and the train is still moving for at least a minute. Can you not stop the car to get out in an emergency, or were all these people just idiots?
Nyc subway cars do have these emergency pulls but they won't stop a train dead in its tracks. Instead it alerts the conductor and staff of a problem. If a train stopped between subway stations that presents major problems in the event of violence as nobody can get on or off.
They don't have that narrow walkway that runs along the tube for maintenance and emergency access?
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: putnam6
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: PassiveSeeker
WTF is wrong with people????!!!!!!!
The amount of people just standing around while people are bleeding to death is unbelievable.
I don’t want to hear they are in shock, people in shock don’t whip out their phones and post to Twitter immediately.
If you need to run away, I can dig that, if you are going to stick around at least help try to save a person!!!
Times like these you see the best and worst of humanity. My heart just sank for the dude on the ground.
If I were there I would do what I could to help him.
Very much agree. Like that pileup in PA a few weeks ago in the snow squall. Video going around by this asshole who was running around the scene giddy at all the likes he was gonna get, laughing as several vehicles were going up in flames and more vehicles kept piling in. Everyone else just standing around. Nobody thinks to run up the road and try to signal people to slow down, or try to help the victims.
We've seen this so many times, it disgusts me.
Do NY subways have those emergency handles to stop the car? There's video of the car full of smoke and the train is still moving for at least a minute. Can you not stop the car to get out in an emergency, or were all these people just idiots?
FWIW I wasn't sure either
www.mentalfloss.com...
So When Should You Pull the Emergency Cord?
According to the MTA's website, "Use the emergency brake cord only when the motion of the subway presents an imminent danger to life and limb." The New York Times, which looked into the matter, relayed transit officials' instructions, who said the only reason you should ever pull the brake is in the event someone gets caught in the door or between train cars and "is about to be dragged to an unenviable fate." Unenviable, indeed.
Pulling the cord during a fire or during a physical attack by one of your fellow straphangers will only hinder emergency workers from getting to your car, which is now stuck underground.
Personally I think the car being full of smoke of an unknown nature is a pretty good reason to stop it. No one knows what's in that smoke. Standing in there breathing it for several minutes until the next stop was a really bad idea. If anyone in the car had asthma or other kind of compromised lung function it could've been fatal.
Immobilizing that vehicle in a tunnel for an hour or longer isn't going to help the situation. Cover your face and stay low to the ground, if you have phone service then alert authorities but there's nothing the train operator can do until the next station.
originally posted by: PassiveSeeker
The suspect is shapeshifting. He has now grown two inches from an hour ago and lost 10 pounds.
So 5’5” to 5’7” and 180 lbs to 170 lbs.
He has also seemed to have lost skin pigment. He is now described as….man.
In most emergencies it totally makes sense to let the car reach the next stop. But again, for people with compromised lung function, being trapped in a smoke-filled car for several minutes could've been fatal.
There was also supposedly an active shooter in the car. That's an even better reason to stop it. You're all sitting ducks for him on a moving train with nowhere to run to.
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: putnam6
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: PassiveSeeker
WTF is wrong with people????!!!!!!!
The amount of people just standing around while people are bleeding to death is unbelievable.
I don’t want to hear they are in shock, people in shock don’t whip out their phones and post to Twitter immediately.
If you need to run away, I can dig that, if you are going to stick around at least help try to save a person!!!
Times like these you see the best and worst of humanity. My heart just sank for the dude on the ground.
If I were there I would do what I could to help him.
Very much agree. Like that pileup in PA a few weeks ago in the snow squall. Video going around by this asshole who was running around the scene giddy at all the likes he was gonna get, laughing as several vehicles were going up in flames and more vehicles kept piling in. Everyone else just standing around. Nobody thinks to run up the road and try to signal people to slow down, or try to help the victims.
We've seen this so many times, it disgusts me.
Do NY subways have those emergency handles to stop the car? There's video of the car full of smoke and the train is still moving for at least a minute. Can you not stop the car to get out in an emergency, or were all these people just idiots?
FWIW I wasn't sure either
www.mentalfloss.com...
So When Should You Pull the Emergency Cord?
According to the MTA's website, "Use the emergency brake cord only when the motion of the subway presents an imminent danger to life and limb." The New York Times, which looked into the matter, relayed transit officials' instructions, who said the only reason you should ever pull the brake is in the event someone gets caught in the door or between train cars and "is about to be dragged to an unenviable fate." Unenviable, indeed.
Pulling the cord during a fire or during a physical attack by one of your fellow straphangers will only hinder emergency workers from getting to your car, which is now stuck underground.
Personally I think the car being full of smoke of an unknown nature is a pretty good reason to stop it. No one knows what's in that smoke. Standing in there breathing it for several minutes until the next stop was a really bad idea. If anyone in the car had asthma or other kind of compromised lung function it could've been fatal.
Immobilizing that vehicle in a tunnel for an hour or longer isn't going to help the situation. Cover your face and stay low to the ground, if you have phone service then alert authorities but there's nothing the train operator can do until the next station.
In most emergencies it totally makes sense to let the car reach the next stop. But again, for people with compromised lung function, being trapped in a smoke-filled car for several minutes could've been fatal.
There was also supposedly an active shooter in the car. That's an even better reason to stop it. You're all sitting ducks for him on a moving train with nowhere to run to.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: putnam6
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: PassiveSeeker
WTF is wrong with people????!!!!!!!
The amount of people just standing around while people are bleeding to death is unbelievable.
I don’t want to hear they are in shock, people in shock don’t whip out their phones and post to Twitter immediately.
If you need to run away, I can dig that, if you are going to stick around at least help try to save a person!!!
Times like these you see the best and worst of humanity. My heart just sank for the dude on the ground.
If I were there I would do what I could to help him.
Very much agree. Like that pileup in PA a few weeks ago in the snow squall. Video going around by this asshole who was running around the scene giddy at all the likes he was gonna get, laughing as several vehicles were going up in flames and more vehicles kept piling in. Everyone else just standing around. Nobody thinks to run up the road and try to signal people to slow down, or try to help the victims.
We've seen this so many times, it disgusts me.
Do NY subways have those emergency handles to stop the car? There's video of the car full of smoke and the train is still moving for at least a minute. Can you not stop the car to get out in an emergency, or were all these people just idiots?
FWIW I wasn't sure either
www.mentalfloss.com...
So When Should You Pull the Emergency Cord?
According to the MTA's website, "Use the emergency brake cord only when the motion of the subway presents an imminent danger to life and limb." The New York Times, which looked into the matter, relayed transit officials' instructions, who said the only reason you should ever pull the brake is in the event someone gets caught in the door or between train cars and "is about to be dragged to an unenviable fate." Unenviable, indeed.
Pulling the cord during a fire or during a physical attack by one of your fellow straphangers will only hinder emergency workers from getting to your car, which is now stuck underground.
Personally I think the car being full of smoke of an unknown nature is a pretty good reason to stop it. No one knows what's in that smoke. Standing in there breathing it for several minutes until the next stop was a really bad idea. If anyone in the car had asthma or other kind of compromised lung function it could've been fatal.
Immobilizing that vehicle in a tunnel for an hour or longer isn't going to help the situation. Cover your face and stay low to the ground, if you have phone service then alert authorities but there's nothing the train operator can do until the next station.
In most emergencies it totally makes sense to let the car reach the next stop. But again, for people with compromised lung function, being trapped in a smoke-filled car for several minutes could've been fatal.
There was also supposedly an active shooter in the car. That's an even better reason to stop it. You're all sitting ducks for him on a moving train with nowhere to run to.
What do you think happens when the emergency lever is activated in a subway car that's underground? There's nowhere to go whether it stops or keeps rolling until it arrives at the next station. The last thing you should do is force the operator to stop the train.
It would appear that members of the Orthodox Hasidic Jewish Community are quietly evacuating NYC. What do they know and how do they know it?
quote from JBurns: Most of us are normal folks who have never packed ourselves voluntarily into a tight space with a bunch of people we dont know or trust.
Most of us have actual homes in real places.
originally posted by: ElGoobero
gonna be hard to catch the longer it goes on. pitch the mask and vest in the trash and run run run.