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A salute to Wesley Autrey
Voodoo's post reminded me that I meant to put something up about this guy.
You've probably heard about it on the news, but basically... this guy had a siezure on a NYC subway platform and falls onto the tracks. Mr. Autrey
left his two young daughters on the platorm, and jumped down to help the guy as a train was approaching the station. Turns out he couldn't lift him
up out of the tracks in time, so as the train entered the station, Mr. Autrey jumped on top of the guy and held him down sa the train passed over top
of them.
They were laying in what is essentially a drainage ditch between the two main rails. Keep in mind there's also a third rail down there, which is
electrified (we've all seen Beat Street, right?). Aparently, those ditches vary in depth from 18" to 24", and the one in that station happened to be
about 22".
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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BDx13
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Man Is Rescued by Stranger on Subway Tracks
By CARA BUCKLEY
Published: January 3, 2007
It was every subway rider?s nightmare, times two.
Who has ridden along New York?s 656 miles of subway lines and not wondered: ?What if I fell to the tracks as a train came in? What would I do??
And who has not thought: ?What if someone else fell? Would I jump to the rescue??
Wesley Autrey, a 50-year-old construction worker and Navy veteran, faced both those questions in a flashing instant yesterday, and got his answers
almost as quickly.
Mr. Autrey was waiting for the downtown local at 137th Street and Broadway in Manhattan around 12:45 p.m. He was taking his two daughters, Syshe, 4,
and Shuqui, 6, home before work.
Nearby, a man collapsed, his body convulsing. Mr. Autrey and two women rushed to help, he said. The man, Cameron Hollopeter, 20, managed to get up,
but then stumbled to the platform edge and fell to the tracks, between the two rails.
The headlights of the No. 1 train appeared. ?I had to make a split decision,? Mr. Autrey said.
So he made one, and leapt.
Mr. Autrey lay on Mr. Hollopeter, his heart pounding, pressing him down in a space roughly a foot deep. The train?s brakes screeched, but it could not
stop in time.
Five cars rolled overhead before the train stopped, the cars passing inches from his head, smudging his blue knit cap with grease. Mr. Autrey heard
onlookers? screams. ?We?re O.K. down here,? he yelled, ?but I?ve got two daughters up there. Let them know their father?s O.K.? He heard cries of
wonder, and applause.
Power was cut, and workers got them out. Mr. Hollopeter, a student at the New York Film Academy, was taken to St. Luke?s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He
had only bumps and bruises, said his grandfather, Jeff Friedman. The police said it appeared that Mr. Hollopeter had suffered a seizure.
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.?
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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BDx13
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=e9JcX2X7XnM
^ CBS News clip
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cdf0qgm5OJo
^ ABC News.
Dude was on Letterman last night. He was awesome.
"All that happened to me was that my blue hat got dirty."
He said that even though the conductor saw people on the tracks and threw on the brakes immediately, that five cars still passed over them before the
train came to a stop. Then they were stuck down there for over 30 minutes while the MTA cut power to the third rail then moved the train out.
I woulda been most afraid of that last part. Like, "look I just got ran over by a train and survived. Don't fuck up while backing this thing up and
take my head off!"
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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jonnynewbreed
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why can't a guy like that get a million dollars. Here he is working some shitty night shift when he leaps down and saves this guys life. He had his
kids there and didn't think twice about leaving them on the platform to save this other dude.
There is good in this world still.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jonnynewbreed
why can't a guy like that get a million dollars. Here he is working some shitty night shift when he leaps down and saves this guys life. He had his
kids there and didn't think twice about leaving them on the platform to save this other dude.
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It aint no million, but Trump gave him 10,000.00 bucks, nothin to shake a stick at and he gets to go to Disney World or land for free with his family.
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wow. thats amazing
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fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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pisses me off that opie and anthony were doing nothing but ragging on this guy making fun of the way he talks and calling him an idiot. yes, it
could've gone all wrong, but it didnt. the guy did something that pretty much nobody else would even think of doing.
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There's a great place waiting for that guy when he passes on. Good for him for helping someone else for no reason other then they were in trouble.
This is a true hero.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Voodoobillyman
| Quote: | Originally posted by jonnynewbreed
why can't a guy like that get a million dollars. Here he is working some shitty night shift when he leaps down and saves this guys life. He had his
kids there and didn't think twice about leaving them on the platform to save this other dude.
There is good in this world still. |
It aint no million, but Trump gave him 10,000.00 bucks, nothin to shake a stick at and he gets to go to Disney World or land for free with his family.
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Money well deserved.
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This guy neds moeny. He is 50 and busting ass in a construction job with young children. He did somehting most PHD or even MASTERS degree holders
would never do. Dude risked his life for someone elses. PUT HIM IN OFFICE.
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by crazyfists28
pisses me off that opie and anthony were doing nothing but ragging on this guy making fun of the way he talks and calling him an idiot. yes, it
could've gone all wrong, but it didnt. the guy did something that pretty much nobody else would even think of doing. |
really? that fuckin sucks. he's a guy. an average, hard-working guy, who in 30 seconds did something more important than those two twats will do in
their entire lives.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DeathByForce
| Quote: | Originally posted by Voodoobillyman
| Quote: | Originally posted by jonnynewbreed
why can't a guy like that get a million dollars. Here he is working some shitty night shift when he leaps down and saves this guys life. He had his
kids there and didn't think twice about leaving them on the platform to save this other dude.
There is good in this world still. |
It aint no million, but Trump gave him 10,000.00 bucks, nothin to shake a stick at and he gets to go to Disney World or land for free with his family.
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Money well deserved. |
Agreed. His daughters learned an important lesson that day as well, it's good to help others even if they're strangers.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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Navy veteran.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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opie and anthony (which i only listen to on regular radio repeats when i have to) just kept going on saying that once the press dies down about him,
he's going to recreate this event and end up accidentally killing people just to regain his glory. i know its stupid radio but the guy deserves the
good attention that he's getting
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If Dopie and Cunthony understood anything about true heroics they'd understand that glory means fuck all.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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This guy has been nicknamed "Subway Superman". This couldn't be more appropriate.
Also, if you look at his hat in the picture that BD posted,
the dirt on it is grease from the train.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
| Quote: | Originally posted by crazyfists28
pisses me off that opie and anthony were doing nothing but ragging on this guy making fun of the way he talks and calling him an idiot. yes, it
could've gone all wrong, but it didnt. the guy did something that pretty much nobody else would even think of doing. |
really? that fuckin sucks. he's a guy. an average, hard-working guy, who in 30 seconds did something more important than those two twats will do in
their entire lives. |
truth. fuck those assholes. that's hardcore right there, giving a shit about someone other than yourself.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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here's the clip of him on letterman last night:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=STNcb1qFnK4
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ChrisReed83
There's a great place waiting for that guy when he passes on. Good for him for helping someone else for no reason other then they were in trouble.
This is a true hero. |
I give all my respect to this that. What he did took more balls then most people will ever have. And the fact that he's passing it off as nothing
important means a lot. He's not acting like some glorified hero. Went right back to work. That film student must worship this guy. I know I would
if I were him.
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"Fool, you got to go in and help him."
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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