Subway Hero

[Yossarian]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/nyregion/03life.html?ex=1325480400&en=bfb239e4fab06ab5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss


Some dude has a siezure and falls on the tracks. Another dude sees a train coming and jumps down and LIES ON TOP OF HIM so that the train passes overhead.

Baddest Knight at the Round Table...

[pennywisesb]

Wow, thats awesome man.

[Deattribution]

Very selfless and awesome act of concern. He could of as easily ended up losing his own life as well.

[oykib]

That's something.

[Lathum]

we need more people like that in the world

[Abe Sargent]

Guy has two daughters. That's the impact to me. Imagine the role model he set for them.

[SirFozzie]

I'm not 100% sure I agree.

Yes, it's a wonderful thing, but what if in an ill-considered drive to be a hero, he was killed, and left his daughters without a father?

[Abe Sargent]

You think it was a drive to be a hero?

Mr. Autrey refused medical help, because, he said, nothing was wrong. He did visit Mr. Hollopeter in the hospital before heading to his night shift. “I don’t feel like I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed help,” Mr. Autrey said. “I did what I felt was right.”


Doesn;t sound like it to me. This wasn't someone with a hero wish.

[Cringer]

I thought this was about a sandwich. :(

Good for that guy. Call me when he has a sandwich named after him.

[Yossarian]

This wasn't someone with a hero wish.

Never said, he had a hero wish. Wish it or not, that man wears his boxers on the outside.

[Deattribution]

I'm not 100% sure I agree.

Yes, it's a wonderful thing, but what if in an ill-considered drive to be a hero, he was killed, and left his daughters without a father?

You could say that about anything that potentially puts the person at risk (going to war for example), it doesn't make the person doing it any less heroic.

[cthomer5000]

This guy immediately becomes a personal hero of mine. It's a bad-ass story.

[Glengoyne]

This guy immediately becomes a personal hero of mine. It's a bad-ass story.

It is a bad ass story, but the bit about his daughters mentioned above is true. It would be pretty tramautizing to see your father killed beneath a subway car, even if you possibly could later understand that he gave his life to help or save another person.

How does the average person even know there is room beneath a subway car to lie flat on the ground underneath one, let alone lie on top of someone else. I can't see him doing it, unless he had that knowledge...but damn, that is an amazing and selfless act, not to mention the stone cold courage required.

[cthomer5000]

It is a bad ass story, but the bit about his daughters mentioned above is true. It would be pretty tramautizing to see your father killed beneath a subway car, even if you possibly could later understand that he gave his life to help or save another person.

How traumatizing would it be to watch a man die while your father did nothing to help him? Either way the situation is a bit f'ed up.

[Ben E Lou]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/485218p-408507c.html

Autrey, a construction worker, was having an otherwise ordinary afternoon when he passed through the turnstiles at W.137th St. and Broadway about 12:45 p.m. He was with his daughters, Shuqui, 6, and Syshe, 4, whom he planned to drop off with their mother at Times Square.


The military veteran first noticed Hollopeter, a 20-year-old film student, when he collapsed to the platform after the seizure. Autrey said he put a pen in the man's mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue as two women also ran to his aid.


The convulsions subsided and Hollopeter climbed to his feet - but he then staggered and fell off the downtown platform.


"I had a split-second decision to make," Autrey said. "Do I let the train run him over and hear my daughters screaming and see the blood? Or do I jump in?"


Knowing a train was likely to pull into the station at any moment, Autrey tried to pull Hollopeter up. But the fallen man started fighting his rescuer, knocking him dangerously close to the third rail and its deadly 600 volts.
Autrey told the Daily News that after only a few seconds, he saw the lights on the front of the No. 1 train bearing down on him and pushed the man into the trough.

"He was fighting and pushing against me, so I laid on top of him," Autrey said. "The train was probably 2 inches off my back."


Transit officials said the train operator reported to the rail control center that he saw a person on the roadbed upon entering the station. He made an emergency stop and found the men under the second car of the 10-car train.


"Am I dead?" Hollopeter asked, according to the man who saved his life. "Am I dead?"


"I said, 'No, we're under the train,'" Autrey recalled.


"'You're touching me. You feel me touching you? We're very much alive.'"


Autrey, who was trapped under the train for 20 minutes before workers turned off the power, said he could hear his daughters screaming.
"My daddy!" they hollered. "My daddy!"


Witnesses said Autrey began shouting at straphangers to be quiet so he could pass a message to his kids. The platform grew silent.


"Let my daughters know that I'm okay and that the man is okay!" he shouted, as onlookers broke into applause.




http://www.nydailynews.com/images/graphics/traingraphic.jpg


What a jerk. He just wanted to get his name in the paper. :rolleyes:

[Ksyrup]

The real question here is...how do you pronounce his daughters' names?

[Julio Riddols]

Yeah, those names are the real questionable call here.. Good man though.. Other dude seemed to have a deathwish, fighting him and pushing him away.

[wade moore]

This guy immediately becomes a personal hero of mine. It's a bad-ass story.

IWS.

[Critch]

The Subway Heroes would be a good name for a band.

[albionmoonlight]

I'm pissed because this guy took valuable news space away from Paris Hilton. I'm sure that she did something cool yesterday, but now I have no idea what thanks to this yahoo.

[Mustang]

Other dude seemed to have a deathwish, fighting him and pushing him away.

Kinda happens when you have a seizure...

[st.cronin]

I thought this thread was going to be about Jared.

[AZSpeechCoach]

I thought this thread was going to be about Jared.

I was looking forward to pictures of Hell Atlantic's date.

[GoldenEagle]

Yeah, those names are the real questionable call here.. Good man though.. Other dude seemed to have a deathwish, fighting him and pushing him away.

I am pretty sure when you have a seizure, you really have no clue what is going in around you. I have never had one before so maybe someone who has can comment?

[TroyF]

I'm not 100% sure I agree.

Yes, it's a wonderful thing, but what if in an ill-considered drive to be a hero, he was killed, and left his daughters without a father?

WTF?

[Eaglesfan27]

This guy immediately becomes a personal hero of mine. It's a bad-ass story.


Ditto. Simply amazing.

[Eaglesfan27]

Kinda happens when you have a seizure...


Exactly. Can't blame the guy having the seizure, he had no control. It does make the rescue even more amazing.

[MikeVic]

Yeah, wow. This is an awesome story. I hope this makes it around past just New York news, and into top news elsewhere. I'd like to hear good news like this in the evening for once. :)

[SirFozzie]

It was on CNN. And I do congratulate him for doing it, I just had a bit of a niggle, and I'm not the only one :)

[Ben E Lou]

"I don't call myself a hero because the real heroes are overseas dying for you and me."--Wesley Autrey

Wow.

[Ryan S]

Yeah, wow. This is an awesome story. I hope this makes it around past just New York news, and into top news elsewhere. I'd like to hear good news like this in the evening for once. :)

It made the papers and TV news in the UK.