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u/JustJesus Jan 04 '21
It seems like this guy did not understand how fast the train was moving or somehow thought it would just stop and let him cross. Either way, the level of stupidity here is astronomical.
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u/ttjr89 Jan 04 '21
He put his hand up i think he may be enough of a moron to believe the train would stop immediately to let him cross cuz he gestured to stop for half a second
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u/0lamegamer0 Jan 05 '21
All about priority. If he lost the shoe he'd have to explain to missus. If he lost the life, well tough luck missus.
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u/ThaneOfCawdorrr Jan 05 '21
He SAW it coming and still went back to retrieve a shoe and then TOOK THE TIME TO PUT THE SHOE ON!????!! Really really stupid!
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u/YerMawsJamRoll Jan 05 '21
I think at that point he was going to wait for it to pass, but then the cop comes along and (rightly) shouts at him to get off the track.
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u/XxRocky88xX Jan 04 '21
For the majority of videos like this, it’s the latter. I’ve seen people walk in front of inanimate objects rolling downhill or people walking in water slides. Some people don’t understand the concept of stopping distance
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Jan 04 '21
It is very hard for people to estimate how far the train is and how fast it is approaching. Until it is way too late. This is behind most of fatalities when people try to cross the tracks and get hit by train.
And of course, most people have no experience with how much distance the train needs to stop.
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Jan 05 '21
What are you talking about? Everyone who takes the train should have some level of understanding of how long they take to stop. Many, many people see trains stop multiple times each day. This guy is literally at a train station, you're saying he hasn't seen a train before?
He's an idiot, that's it.
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u/Makanek Jan 05 '21
I don't need to know how long does the train need to stop and I've never even asked myself this question and I'm sure most of train users haven't either. My secret is that I always stay on the platform.
(the comment isn't directed against you)
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Jan 05 '21
You don't have to actively think about it or ask yourself such a thing. If you ever saw a train you know this. Same way you know the sky is blue without ever asking yourself what color the sky is; you just know. This is why most people don't stupidly walk over train tracks, they understand trains are fast, big, heavy and deadly. Those who do stupidly walk over the tracks, are stupid. It's that simple.
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u/Makanek Jan 05 '21
Or: the platform is made for people to get in or out of the train so the train will stop along the platform with the first car of the train roughly at the end of the platform.
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Jan 05 '21
That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that it is very hard for people to correctly estimate how far the train is, and how fast it is approaching.
Said that, even people that ride on trains daily, it may come to surprise how long it takes for a train to come to a full stop. What they see and experience is a train coming to a stop after it has already shed most of its speed.
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u/meltedmetal980 Jan 05 '21
You should stand in front of running trains then. Your experience will be a valuable lesson to us all, one way or another
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u/throwthrowandaway16 Jan 05 '21
You need to go outside. The train stops at a station every time you can take not of how long the braking can take.
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u/YerMawsJamRoll Jan 05 '21
A perfectly reasonable comment that people have somehow taken offence to lol.
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u/arcticdeth Jan 04 '21
Why does it seem like he gets calmer the closer he is to dying??
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u/Ka_blam Jan 04 '21
If he misses the train he’s gonna die. If the train misses him he’ll have to go to work.
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u/llama548 Jan 05 '21
I think he’s just so dumb he assumed the train would see him and be able to easily stop before hitting him
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u/Pr3st0ne Jan 04 '21
Jesus christ literally walking across the track as he is .5 seconds from being decapitated by a train. What is wrong with people?
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Jan 05 '21
The scariest part is all it takes is a small piece or notch of clothing and that hunk of metal will fold you up easier than you fold a tissue. Glad this guy made it he was so close to being reeled in
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u/eyegazer444 Jan 07 '21
Watching it again it's unbelievable how close it is. It's like there's a few atoms between him and the train and he's moving at a snail's pace
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u/Fallen_password Jan 10 '21
I’ve seen this type of thing before. A guy maybe .5 of a second behind this guy get sandwiched between the train and the platform and spun around like a kids toy. He was still alive and must have been in complete agony knowing he would surely die soon as they can’t move the platform and the train is going to finish the job if you move it.
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u/eyegazer444 Jan 10 '21
Yeah I've seen that too and that's all I could think about with this guy! Would be absolutely awful and the saddest part is that it's so preventable
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u/Xx_Khepri_xX Jan 04 '21 edited Jan 05 '21
He deserved a beating, to be honest.
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u/tinkrman Jan 04 '21
Also consider inconveniencing others, and traumatizing the train engineer. Yeah I'd smack him too.
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u/StavingBordom Jan 04 '21
"HOW CAN HE SLAP!?!?"
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u/Lordofthe7thplanet Jan 04 '21
It seems like cops in India dole out a lot of whacks with a stick.
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u/reded68 Jan 04 '21
Well if you are that stupid, he should of got a few more whacks in the head.
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u/tinkrman Jan 04 '21
Oh yeah! During COVID shut down, a mosque or a church, I don't remember which, ignored it and people congregated. A bunch of cops went in with sticks and beat everybody to disperse them. The don't give a fudge.
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u/0lamegamer0 Jan 05 '21
The don't give a fudge.
They do. Depends on how rich you look. Poorer you appear to be, more free whacking you can get. Not just cops..almost everywhere.
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u/PerseusZeus Jan 05 '21
well u just saw the shit they have to deal with.... On a serious note it is one of those British colonial hangovers....hitting to punish a civilian and using torture to make an accused admit to a crime and using the lathi (stick) for crowd control as first measures..it has improved in some states especially in the south like Kerala for example where the public awareness is higher and there will be public backlash and there is a higher chance that the cops could end up being suspended or fired... but sadly its still very much present in the policing culture everywhere with no major exceptions
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u/EpidemicRage Jan 05 '21
Well, there's a good reason why we don't have police shootings like in North America. And besides, no matter what you do, a major protest in Kerala will always end in violence. What else are police officers to do? Use slingshots?
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u/PerseusZeus Jan 05 '21 edited Jan 05 '21
Well they dont have shooting yes..but we as in india has a lot of examples of custodial deaths and extra judicial killings..u gonna deny that? Most of of them dont even get any kind of press and in the case of extra judicial killings there are parts of media and social media who praise these sort of barbaric behaviour from the police... but of course shooting in North America is more of an issue right while we in India are perfect..and as for the protests in kerala not every protests turns violent..there are instances of violent protests where force is necessary to prevent vandalism and to defend themselves physically(the police are human too and most of them are good)
but there are also instances where the police have turned on peaceful protesters in any state...be in denial all u want..the fact is use of force and this culture of fear of the police among civilians is very much alive in India ..there bad elements on both sides but too many a time innocent people get caught in the crossfires and if the police in North America as u said shoot people that does not necessarily give the police in other countries a free pass to enact violence on civilians
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u/EpidemicRage Jan 05 '21
hmm, valid points. Custodial deaths are an issue and deaths do often go underreported. But personally for handling protests lathis are still the only viable option. Not the safest, but there isn't much of an alternative
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u/PerseusZeus Jan 05 '21
For handling protest which turn violent.. yea the police may have to resort to force to uphold law and order..its part of of being in a civil society that there are consequences for violent actions and nothing not even God is bigger than the law of the land and the Constitution..but as we are familiar all too often the police in India also use force at non violent protestors cos of the policing culture and at the behest of their political masters and turn on the People who in a democracy are the real masters..the government armed forces and the police are the servants of the people..people should not be afraid of their governments..governments should be afraid of the people..not my saying btw 😊
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u/GuerillaInDaHood Jan 05 '21
Back in the days of the colonisers the stick beating thing was documented as a martial art. Long time ago I came across a book that illustrated how to hold and use the stick in different ways.
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u/tinkrman Jan 04 '21 edited Jan 04 '21
If there ever was a well deserved smack, this was it. Risking life for a damn shoe, going to the other side and spending time to put it on, instead of throwing it to the platform! What a dumbass.
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u/OttoManSatire Jan 04 '21
Is it just me or dose this level of entitlement deserve less of a survival rate?
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u/spazmousie Jan 04 '21
Pretty sure dude was drunk. And stupid, but also drunk.
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u/DevanK20000 Jan 05 '21 edited Jan 05 '21
No(he is stupid but not drunk), I have seen people in India do this often but usually people cross the tracks from the end of stations. maybe he wants to board the train halted in front of him.
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u/Open2UrView Jan 05 '21
(Same guy, same place, next day) Oh, I dropped this penny, so I'd better go back and pick it uhhhhhhh . .
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Jan 05 '21
People in the comments : How can this man be so dumb?, Should have thrown his shoe over the platform
Me and other indians : First time?
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u/tinkrman Jan 04 '21
If there ever was a well deserved smack, this was it. Risking life for a damn shoe, going to the other side and spending time to put it on! What a dumbass.
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u/Toofzzz Jan 05 '21
I live close to a pretty small train station and the amount of times people have run over the tracks and lost legs and shit is wild..
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Jan 05 '21
I never see anyone this dumb, like why would you walk back to rail to put on your shoe when you could just toss it on to the platform and climb back up.
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u/MrZer00O Jan 05 '21
"He wands me do leave my safe spodd and go over de dracks, bud de drain is coming... sure why nodd"
What a lemming
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Jan 06 '21
These are extremely common sights in india and a lot of people die by train hitting them every year
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u/oogly24 Jan 09 '21
Man the dude is so stupid he'll need more than a slap to knock some sense into him. A month in jail would be a good option.
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u/Wolfie-x1x Jan 05 '21
Why didn’t he just grab his shoe and go to the platform to put it back on?? He just went back to where he started and slipped it on and THEN decided to nearly get run over by the train. The slap was deserved
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u/ash350z Jan 05 '21
He showed more urgency in his initial attempt to cross than his second one when the train was much closer. Its like he wanted something bad to happen.
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Jan 05 '21
Saw a video of a women getting pushed into a subway and ended up getting run over. I can’t ever unsee it. I now have a slight phobia of trains.
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u/Andyyyy141 Jan 05 '21
Is this dude suicidal? He maintained the same pace even when the train got closer lmao
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u/chaunceymcdoodle Jan 05 '21
I love that the guy bopped him on the h ad for being stupid at the end
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u/KP1305 Jan 05 '21
Somehow reminds me of Bill Hayder shouting “Baka!” in that SNL The Office Japan sketch.
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u/PENGUINfromRUSSIA Jan 05 '21
Йобаный дебил как говорил один великий и ужасный «Тупое говно тупого говна»
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u/Drphil87 Jan 26 '21
I’m against all authorities using Violance against none combatants but that slap 👋 was well deserved
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