When would you actually want to pull the emergency stop handle on a subway train?

[vshah]

In every scenario I think of, it would be better for the train to keep going to the next station so that people/emergency workers/police can help.


-Vivan

 

[IronWing]

When you see a five spot or better on the side of the tracks.

 

[quakefiend420]

next station is filled with anthrax?

i dunno, i can't really think of one either

 

[nageov3t]

after someone shoots the conductor in the head?

 

[vshah]

after someone shoots the conductor in the head?

i thought you're supposed to heroically take the wheel in that case

do trains even have a wheel?

heroically take the lever?

 

[Legendary]

dead driver
see a guy on the tracks

otherwise stay away

 

[ChanHo78]

fire?

 

[Schadenfroh]

When the guy across from me pulls a gas mask out of his briefcase and puts it on. I will then try to grab the gas mask from him.

 

[AndroidVageta]

Fire is a good one...everything else could just wait for the next stop...probably be quicker and safer. I know the rails here on the subway are electrified...zap yo ass dead real quick like!

 

[TecHNooB]

When you're stuck in an overcrowded car and someone rips a big one.

 

[arrfep]

When McDonald's runs out of chicken nuggets.

 

[IronWing]

This thread made me think of this so I dug it out of the ATOT archive, enjoy:

From the time Charlie was a little kid he wanted to drive a street car. He dreamed about it, talked about, had pictures of street cars in his room, read books about them, everything in Charlie's world was street cars. On his 21st birthday, Charlie went down to the public works department and took the driver's exam. He flunked. So Charlie spent the next six months studying night and day to pass the exam. He flunked again. Now Charlie was desperate. If he failed the exam a third time, that was it, he could never be a street car driver. So Charlie studied all the more. He read every manual over and over. He memorized the routes, knew all the rules. Yet on his third try he flunked for good. Charlie was heart broken. He wandered the streets in anguish.

Then, one day Charlie saw a driver hop off the street car to fetch a soda. Charlie thought "Here is my chance". Charlie jumped in the driver's seat and took off. Charlie was in heaven, he was driving a street car! He laughed aloud in absolute joy. He slammed into a crowd of pedestrians, killing fourteen. The police lead him away in cuffs as he screamed that it wasn't his fault.

Charlie was found guilty of fourteen counts of negligent homicide and sentenced to death. On the day of his execution Charlie, still pleading his innocence, was strapped into the electric chair, and the switch was thrown. The power surged yet nothing happened to Charlie. The warden came forth and told Charlie that he was free to go. Under the rules of the state, if an execution failed the prisoner was freed. Charlie broke down in utter despair, sobbing and cursing his fate. The warden, puzzled to say the least, asked Charlie why he was so sad. Charlie replied "I just realized that I really am a bad conductor."

 

[arcenite]

This thread made me think of this so I dug it out of the ATOT archive, enjoy:

From the time Charlie was a little kid he wanted to drive a street car. He dreamed about it, talked about, had pictures of street cars in his room, read books about them, everything in Charlie's world was street cars. On his 21st birthday, Charlie went down to the public works department and took the driver's exam. He flunked. So Charlie spent the next six months studying night and day to pass the exam. He flunked again. Now Charlie was desperate. If he failed the exam a third time, that was it, he could never be a street car driver. So Charlie studied all the more. He read every manual over and over. He memorized the routes, knew all the rules. Yet on his third try he flunked for good. Charlie was heart broken. He wandered the streets in anguish.

Then, one day Charlie saw a driver hop off the street car to fetch a soda. Charlie thought "Here is my chance". Charlie jumped in the driver's seat and took off. Charlie was in heaven, he was driving a street car! He laughed aloud in absolute joy. He slammed into a crowd of pedestrians, killing fourteen. The police lead him away in cuffs as he screamed that it wasn't his fault.

Charlie was found guilty of fourteen counts of negligent homicide and sentenced to death. On the day of his execution Charlie, still pleading his innocence, was strapped into the electric chair, and the switch was thrown. The power surged yet nothing happened to Charlie. The warden came forth and told Charlie that he was free to go. Under the rules of the state, if an execution failed the prisoner was freed. Charlie broke down in utter despair, sobbing and cursing his fate. The warden, puzzled to say the least, asked Charlie why he was so sad. Charlie replied "I just realized that I really am a bad conductor."

 

[trek]

On coming train that somehow got on the same track that you know somehow know about?

 

[Arcadio]

When you see someone falling between the cars of the train while transferring from one car to another...

 

[ultimatebob]

after someone shoots the conductor in the head?

I thought that all of the new subway cars had a "deadman's switch" that would automatically stop the train if they let go of it?

 

[LTC8K6]

Someone stuck in the door? We see that every so often on the news.

Someone stuck in the gap between the train and the wall?

 

[l0cke]

Go watch 24 season 6 episode 3

 

[I Saw OJ]

If your hat flies out the window.

 

[Rubycon]

EMERGENCY STOP - NEVER USE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0

 

[OverVolt]

You don't have to outrun a bear, you only have to outrun your camping friends.

I figured this was relevant.

 

[meltdown75]

old Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop goin though it could slow down

 

[vshah]

I thought that all of the new subway cars had a "deadman's switch" that would automatically stop the train if they let go of it?

wouldn't you want to go on to the next station so people who get shot could get help?

 

[Adam8281]

When your HUD shows that your next waypoint is in between stations and you don't want to go through the tunnels on foot because your stamina points are low.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Train takes a wrong turn down an old path that's been bricked up at the end. Somehow the tracks are still electrified, so the train doesn't lose power. Oh and the conductor has had an allergic reaction to the raisin bran he had that morning and gone into anaphylactic shock, causing him to be unable to stop the train himself. You've had the misfortune of boarding with the students of a local school for the deaf and blind and they are completely unaware of the danger. The train and everyone on it are depending on you to pull the emergency stop before it crashes into the brick wall at the end of the derelict tunnel.