I've been drunk and I've used subways, but I've never stumbled onto the tracks like THIS:

[NYC_SKP]

Let this be a lesson to any subway patrons who also imbibe.

OBTW, a train is coming down the tracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjLi3AGOw9Y

This is one way to quit drinking, I suppose.

:wow:

Edit, new link, old one deleted by youtube

[MineralMan]

1. Almost a Darwin Award winner.

Close, but no cigar. Judging from her behavior, though, she may get other chances to win.

[misanthrope]

2. One reason why being arrested for public intoxication...

...isn't always such a bad thing.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I thought she was gonna touch the 3rd rail

That was nerve-wracking to watch!

[Pharaoh]

4. video removed

:shrug:

[NYC_SKP]

13. Here's a new one: LINK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjLi3AGOw9Y

[ecstatic]

5. I like this youtube comment:

"looks like she just gave up and then instantly when the train stops she gets up like "shit I made it?". "

[mikelgb]

6. new link I think, yours is removed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjLi3AGOw9Y

[Pharaoh]

9. Thank you!

[DireStrike]

7. Removed due to TOU violation

I've been drunk on trains before. Once I fell asleep and apparently rode it back and forth twice. But that's the worst that has happened.

[NYC_SKP]

12. Link replaced with working one. Thanks for the heads-up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjLi3AGOw9Y

[pipi_k]

8. Absolutely chilling...but you know...

hard-core drinkers hardly ever learn anything scary enough to make them stop drinking.


My second husband was an alcoholic who drank every single day. Every so often he would break out in the most hideous hives I've ever seen on anyone. Huge welts all over his face and body...his face would swell up like he'd been stung by a hundred bees and turn beet red. He would puke for hours on end. He would swear up and down that he would NEVER drink again. It was really awful.

When it was over, it was like nothing ever happened. Back to the booze again.

[NYC_SKP]

14. So drunk, she forgets what even happened or how serious it was.

In this case, with it on video, she's got a record of it and her friends and family (if she has any left who aren't also drinkers) might just encourage her to quit.

[pipi_k]

21. Well, we can always hope...

Maybe it was just an isolated incident, in which case it probably would scare the hell out of her and she would either quit or make sure she has responsible adult supervision when she is drinking.

But if she has real drinking problems...

:shrug:

[misanthrope]

22. I thought about that as well...

...I'd be willing to bet this isn't close to the first time she's been that wasted in public.

[KittyWampus]

10. she owes her life to the people flagging that approaching train.

[NYC_SKP]

11. CNN said operations called the train. Please note the rectangles that dart about in video.

These platforms are under surveillance, the rectangles track moving objects.

CNN noted that operations called the train, so I surmise that someone was on the job and actually monitoring the live video.

But props to the people waving them down anyway.

The woman owes her life to technology, and/or to the gods that feel pity for alcoholics.

Hope she revisits her substance abuse issues.

[KittyWampus]

15. thanks for following up with that info! And it's always nice to see our fellow citizens caring

about others.

So often on DU, we read posts about the worst humanity can do.

[DireStrike]

16. I was told that you can live if you lie flat between the tracks, or scrunch up under the platform

Is this the case or not?

Of course, who knows if she was lying flat enough, and wouldn't have accidentally thrown an arm or leg onto the tracks anyway when she thought the danger had passed....

[NYC_SKP]

20. The NY platforms have adequate space just underneath to tuck. But hold your breath!

Unless you like the smell of human and rat urine.

The third rail is on the far side of the tracks, but it's safe on the near side.

Don't know about the clearance under the train, that would be scary, wouldn't it, not to know but going there?

:donut:

[Princess Turandot]

23. There's clearance under the train, if your nerves can take it..

I'm sure you recall the story, almost 3 years ago now, when a construction worker named Wesley Autrey jumped onto the tracks and saved the life a young man, who had fallen from the platform in a seizure? He lay on top of him, holding him down, in the well between the sides of the track, since a train was almost in the station and he didn't have time to pull him off of the tracks. The cars passed over both of them, but not by much. Just don't fall on a rainy day, when they sometimes accumulate a puddle!

I've seen subway workers nonchalantly standing on top of the third rail, where it's between the uptown and downtown sides of the same station, waiting for a train to go by, since it's covered with non-conductive metal. Looks simple enough lol.

[NYC_SKP]

25. In college we used to explore the tunnels at night. Big fucking rats down there!

And you can't help but be thinking the whole time, "where do I go if a train comes?".

Never occurred to me to lay in the middle of the tracks, though! :silly:

I do remember that awesome story.

He plus the kid might be thinner than me...

:donut:

[DireStrike]

26. Hah, wish I could do that.

If I were caught in the subway tunnels I'd probably be sent to gitmo, these days.

[leftynyc]

17. I saw that on the news this morning

How she missed the third rail and frying is beyond me. G-d must really look after drunks and fools.

[DaveinJapan]

18. I actually experienced something very similar to this in Tokyo...

it was my very first week in the country, and we were coming back from partying ourselves late at night (I was with a big group, probably 10 or so and at least 6 guys iirc)...

Anyway, unlike in this case we happened upon the scene with an EMPTY train platform, and when we turned the corner we saw TWO guys on the tracks (eerily, in just about the same position this girl was in, right in the front of the station where the train would be going by pretty fast). One dude on the rails was blitzed beyond recognition, the other guy was a friend who was trying to help him (a very BRAVE friend to jump down there himself! He too was drunk, but coherent), and we pulled them both up (I was one of the two helping the "okay" guy, the other guy required all four dudes to get his ass up onto the platform!). The friend thanked us profusely, and kept saying "he's really a good guy, he's a nice guy!" as though we'd be pissed or something. Mostly we were just exhausted and freaked out.

Less than a minute later the train came. Those guys were damned lucky we happened by, they'd certainly have been killed otherwise!

I remember thinking when I first saw them "are they a work crew or something?". It was just one of those weird "this isn't right" things that when you see it your brain races to explain it.

Anyway, glad she didn't get killed...alcohol is a very dangerous drug!

[frazzled]

19. For all you can say about the dangers of smoking ...

The dangers of drinking are much more immediate.

[MiniMe]

24. I feel for the train operator. I imagine his pants were quite brown after that

I got to the subway once right after somebody had jumped just in front of a train. Thankfully I wasn't there to see it happen, but a lot of the train employees saw it. They were all totally freaked out, and they said that the train operator was really messed up by it. I always feel bad for the train operators in these cases.

[HamdenRice]

27. Her, not his. The train operator was a woman. She denies being a hero nt

[NYC_SKP]

28. Ha.... I wondered. Nice of her to mention that she's not a hero.

I think, like a bus driver, being aware and stopping for obstacles is well within her job description.

Same for the operations people who called her.

On another note, unless it was an express train, it probably was preparing to stop and just had to stop much sooner.

An express train might not have been able.

And she'd never drink again.

:donut:

[morgan2]

29. why were all the people trying to distract the subway driver

hey look up dont look on the tracks!
ohh America..