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Saw a guy cut in half by the subway train Tuesday night

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Dari

Lifer
I was on the uptown/Queens-bound side of the N/R/Q line when some guy got clipped by a Brooklyn bound N or Q train on 42nd Street/Times Square. The upper half of his body stayed on the platform while the lower half was on the tracks. It was a gruesome scene but I couldn't look away. This happened around 12AM Tuesday/Wednesday but I haven't seen anything in the news about it. Poor guy was probably going home after a hard day's work or after hanging out with friends. People need to be careful when taking the subway. It's so easy to forget how powerful these machines are and how close we are to them.
 
Arik5405 said:
pics or it didn't happen.
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I actually took out my camera to take pics but I couldn't do it. I felt too bad for him. It was really bad. You could see the bones that connect to the legs sticking out (with the meat on it). Awful. A lot of people were in shock while others kept reading their books as if it was nothing special.
 
If you live in NYC long enough you see something bad happen in the subway. Back in the 70s it was even worse. Heard a story about 4 people getting pushed in front of a train in the mid 70s.
 
So was it just his legs, or his actual torso? Was he alive at the time, or obviously deceased?
 
Eli said:
So was it just his legs, or his actual torso? Was he alive at the time, or obviously deceased?
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Torso and below were gone. I think he was a goner but I did not see his face, just the lower side leaning against the subway car. I looked at it for a good 6 minutes and did not see any movement.
 
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Still don't quite comprehend how this happened.

I've been on the NYC subway once in my life, and the platforms were stupidly narrow, so I can see shit happening.

Some retard (literally) pushed some kids infront of a subway last year in my city. I take the subway daily to work, so yes, I do take a look behind me as the train's approaching. Yay paranoia!
 
Dari said:
I was on the uptown/Queens-bound side of the N/R/Q line when some guy got clipped by a Brooklyn bound N or Q train on 42nd Street/Times Square. The upper half of his body stayed on the platform while the lower half was on the tracks. It was a gruesome scene but I couldn't look away. This happened around 12AM Tuesday/Wednesday but I haven't seen anything in the news about it. Poor guy was probably going home after a hard day's work or after hanging out with friends. People need to be careful when taking the subway. It's so easy to forget how powerful these machines are and how close we are to them.
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Upper half stayed put? But his legs got clipped by the train ? Was he sitting on the platform with his feet out? I just cant physically see how this is possible??
 
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ActiveX said:
I rode the Subway for 8-years between high school and college, saw a lot of weird shit, but never seen Outside of the movies, i can't see physically how a human could be torn in two by a train and have only have the legs get cuts off ??. Was he dangling his feet like in a pool ?? Sounds like a case for myth busters.
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I guess if the dude was trying to pull himself off the track level just as the train came in at full speed. Somehow his grip/hold was strong enough that the train didn't push him down the track, and his body got wedged between the platform and train, and..... Shit happens?
 
ActiveX said:
Upper half stayed put? But his legs got clipped by the train ? Was he sitting on the platform with his feet out? I just cant physically see how this is possible??
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I didn't seem him when he got hit. However, I did see the bottom part of his upper half leaning against a subway car and the MTA employees putting an orange tape around the area. Then police came. Then the fire department came. They were ushering all the people out of that train and out of the Brooklyn-bound platform. But, for those of us on the Queens side, we saw everything.
 
I'm not intimately familiar with subway cars. Is there maybe something that could act as a knife, that is close to the platform; maybe a steel step that extends out from the side of the car?
 
Maybe someone should call the police precinct or fire department that would cover that particular area and inquire. I was on that platform today and asked an MTA employee but he said he had no idea. Like I said in the OP, I'm surprised this did not hit the news. But it should be a matter of public records, right?
 
lxskllr said:
I'm not intimately familiar with subway cars. Is there maybe something that could act as a knife, that is close to the platform; maybe a steel step that extends out from the side of the car?
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Yeah, the cars have those. The trains can come in fast but I saw his body towards the front half of the train so maybe it was dragged? I'm not sure since I was not on the same platform.
 
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