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The times I got hypoglycemia I only had time to say "It seems that I'm going to fall, please give me something with sugar and stay calm". Never ever had as much time as this guy, I get like 10 seconds.
No matter how many times I say stay calm and give me something with sugar, people panic, I fell once in the kitchen and I had just enough time to tell to my father "I'm going to fall", everything went black, I was blind and deaf but I was repeating "give me some juice it's there on the counter" and I was barely feeling how he was grabbing my arms and screaming "don't die on me". Ffs, I'm diabetic sometimes happens, if I didn't die when I fell in the bathroom and banged my head on the toilet I'm gonna be fine. When that happened I remember falling being on the floor blind and deaf losing conscience because the hit and thinking to myself "I'm going to die in the bathroom with my pants down...", then I woke up, with my pants down and a big bruise on my forehead.
Same here. Funny story, um, one time I woke up and my sugar and plummeted on my in my sleep. The night before, I had been watching some clears his throat videos to preform some "self-maintence" if you will and when I got done, I just hit pause on it and set my laptop next to me and went to bed. I woke up and my muscles started locking up and I couldn't control my movements (I knew I was about to have a seizure) and before it took full effect, I had enough strength/control in me to shut the laptop, lol... then proceeded to basically just moan/noises as loud as I could over and over, like "AHHH!! AHHH! HULLL HULLL..P..PUH..AHHH M..MU..MEEEE..AHHHH!" because I couldn't speak coherently, hoping my roommate would hear me (thankfully did, they knew I was a diabetic and sometimes my sugar can really mess me up) and they came back and saw me and called 911 and were proping me up to try to get orange juice in me to help. My last thought before "Am I going to die? Have a seizure?", was "I don't need anyone to see I was watching porn", LOL. Couldn't go out like that.
"What happened to him??!" - He... had a seizure and died from low blood sugar. - "Omg!!!" - Yeah, I walked in and the paramedics came and were working on him and the whole time there was a paused video of a girl glazed in semen paused on his laptop screen."
As another diabetic, could I ask how low your sugar was before you got there? I've gotten quite low but never had a seizure or something similar so I am wondering if I just got lucky, or if just never got low "enough" to trigger something like that.
My body is weird. I usually don't really start noticing until it is like in the 30's. Because I am still coherent and walking and thinking fine and everything and then all the sudden.. yeah. But then there are other times to where I get disoriented and it looks like someone dumped a bucket of water over me and my sugar is in the 70's.
Edit: for more details
I wasn't always a diabetic. When I was diagnosed as one, which, it was really bad, I dropped down to 113lbs and couldn't poop. I was pissing myself. Went to the ER. Walked in. Was like, "I don't feel very good.." and they brought me in, doctor listened to my heart. Told me to sit down. Then stand up. Then she told me to lay on the bed because my heart was about to give out. They had to send my blood off to get read because none of their machines could register it and my sugar was in the 1000's. They were like, "And.. so you just proceeded to walk in here?? You should at least be in a coma."
Edit 2: I am not overweight, never have been. Also, there are... it is weird.. like there are a lot of things as a diabetic I do not have to deal with. I heal normally like everyone else, no heart issues, kidney issues, ect. I mean, as I get older, it isn't getting better, but yeah. There was a time, I want to say about 7 years after I became a brittle diabetic, I was out on a walk, felt fine and then all of the sudden I went out and everything went black. Woke up on the was to the hospital and after it all, the ER doctor told me there is sometimes called a "diabetic honeymoon" to where your pancreas still sort of works, basically in its death throws, so the insulin has to be adjusted. And I told him, "I have been a diabetic for 7 years." and he was just like "Oh....."
My biggest issue is... I have never really ate a lot. And, I went 23 years without having to deal with it, so, I mean, I have gotten better with it learning, but my issue is I have to remember to eat and that I am not "a normie" anymore.
Nah. Just because I’m a web developer doesn’t I’m building websites for free while I’m at the grocery store. She did this because she is an excellent standup human being. The profession needs more good people.
Being a first responder or healthcare worker is a little different than being an office worker or tech worker. We don’t usually fully “turn it off” just because we’re not on shift. I might not feel like doing CPR on someone in public off shift, but the consequences of not doing so are greater than not building a website..
It's not about her doing it for "free", it was about the fact that she possessed all of the skills for Emerg response due to her being an emergency responder as her day job.
Thats when their blood sugar drops , missing insulin would cause it to go higher not lower . It could very well be a hypo but not caused by missed insulin. Im an insulin user.
Just to clarify a small detail for anyone confused: when you said "hypo" you meant hypoinsulinemia (which causes high blood sugar and possibile keto acidosis), while the comments above used "hypo" to indicate hypoglicemia (low blood sugar, it can happen if you don't eat enough after taking insulin).
And speaking as someone in the medical field, when someone talks about a diabetic hypo, it almost always refers to hypoglycaemia. Hypoinsulinemia isn’t a commonly used term.
This happened to a friend - I was hazy on the details of what happened. We were working on a building site and lost him and somehow someone saw him behaving like a drunk person on the street. Something must have been off because they searched him and found a business card for the building manager and brought him to reception. We called an ambulance and they took him to hospital… all super scary.
I had my diabetic friend lost in my own building after he went out to buy something, i found him in the top floor in the dark just standing there talking nonsese lol. We laughed later, but that shit was scary as hell, he was like a zombie.
Just saw body cam footage of a chill responding to a call from a hospital reporting a woman they said was looking for drugs, she was released from hospital after being treated for diabetes.
They tested her for practically everything regarding drugs and she tested negative. Cops jailed her for public intoxication, after breakfast they said she seemed normal but then was later found by another inmate laying on the floor of her cell. She had a stroke and died a few days later.
The jail tested her blood sugar levels at 360 mg/dl, which is pretty high
Both professions deal with a lot of mentally unwell people. You either meet the kindest and most noble people working as them, or absolute narcissists who want power over vulnerable people.
They look soo similar. The amount of combative "drunk" people I have ran into when working on an ambulance were fixed by holding them down and forcing sugar into them lol
You will find police in the US whoncare just as much. One of the paramedics I worked with when I was an EMT was also an cop, and she was pretty compassionate, an rare trait to have in that field.
It was a nurse the stopped for me when I wrecked my bike and nearly died. She couldn't do shit at the time but provide comfort, but I was grateful for her.
This same thing happened to me and a few others one time. Waiting on the platform and a homeless dude wanders in, clearly out of his gourd. We're all keeping an eye on him as he stumbles towards the edge and then teeters onto the track - and a group of like 5 of us, total strangers, proceed to leap down and haul his ass back up. You can definitely tell when someone's in rough enough shape that something calamitous is going to happen.
That first look of confusion, then the look back like fuck am I going to have to do a thing? Ah dammit, here we go. Nice to see other guys stepping in quickly.
And why drunk drivers are typically the only ones to survive the crashes and not the family or other family sadly. Racing drivers have trained long and hard to just flow in crashes. At that point you have no choice. Cross your arms over your chest and go for the terrible ride. A normal person can’t think like that in panic mode.
It definitely was. I had the same situation four years ago. The dude hit his knees on one rail and his head on the other, so he was unconscious for a minute. Probably good for him, as we could lift him out without pain. When the ambulance arrived he was already crying from pain. They cut his jeans open and his kneecap was 10cm above the place where it should be.
Falling is much more dangerous than people think. If you can’t protect yourself while doing it, you don’t even need falling down like he did to die. Just hit your head from falling over and you’re gone.
I assumed some kind of stroke, lots of people do seemingly nonsensical things when they’re in one. But yeah, people are quick to blame when they think something is self inflicted
Funny you say that because it happened to me with a dangerous low blood sugar that I didn’t notice. I suddenly started to stumble while crossing a busy road. Dragged myself across but fell in the process and finally collapsed on the sidewalk. Someone came and helped and waved down an ambulance that was there just by chance. Paramedics told me they thought I was just a drunk and wanted to leave and not get involved initially. You definitely walk like a drunk person when your blood sugars are very low.
Yeah, it's great when strangers help, like my parents were hit head-on in a car crash by a drunk driver. The people that were on the road stopped immediately, called for help, got the injured people out of the wreckages when the fire was burning and rendered first aid. All survived, but the drunk driver is now facing jail for his actions of driving while being intoxicated.
Also, in this case, can't complain about the insurance company. They paid everything. The case worker of the insurance company left a "get well soon" hand written card in the mail with the paid bills.
I thought he was gonna assault her, but after he started stumbling I knew where it was going. Very fucking lucky that the train was far cause I've seen many have no time to be saved
Hi! I'm from Barcelona. The button she press in the video just when the guy falls is the emergency call that all the stations have here. So it is possible that any incoming train was already stopping.
I don't understand why every subway doesn't have at least a protective fence with automatic gates. Can't be more expensive than dealing with this kind of event.
Platform screen doors are quite expensive to instal and incidents like this are very rare.
It is certainly the case that modern thought is that there should be barriers on subway platforms and most systems that dont have them are looking at ways of implementation.
but costs can be huge, especially with older systems which might not easily accomodate them.
They also require unified stock. So London which has multiple stock and shared running in large parts of the central sysetm, probably will never have them system wide and that's the biggest subway system in the world.
It's often more complicated engineering-wise than it seems (for example the subway has to perfectly align with the doors, the platform must support the weight, etc.). In Paris they added them to two and half lines (1 and 4, which were automated, and some stops on the 13 for safety reasons) but it took retrofit work if I'm not mistaken.
I saved a young girl from some light rail tracks, she fell crossing them in the rain and split her head wide open to the skull, she was not getting up and I had to run across several tracks to get to her. I started dragging her off the tracks as another guy jumped down to help, and we safely pulled her up to the platform as I could see the train making its way into the station. I ripped off my shirt (I was a bra-less gal, thank g I had an extra under layer lol) and wrapped her head with it. Finally the station guard caught up to us and said he'd take over calling her parents and medical etc. I crossed back to my platform and boarded my train, then the crying and shaking started. Even talking about it again has my adrenaline going crazy!
That lady was awesome and inspiring to watch in action, and makes me finally feel a little pride in my own self, which is a rarity.
then the crying and shaking started. Even talking about it again has my adrenaline going crazy!
Sounds heavy. Do you think it would have helped to have had someone professional to talk to right away? I think most European countries at least have some form of victim support that would also help deal with emotions after an event like this.
Perhaps! Once the rush passed and I calmed down I really didn't think about it much after that, except random "I wonder if she's okay" thoughts in the following years. I am prone to adrenaline dumps and have always had a dysregulated nervous system so I guess I didn't read into my response too much... though in retrospect, I do think my body responded and regulated appropriately for this situation.
Regardless of my experience i think support afterwards for all involved is an awesome thing for those European countries to be doing, and I am in big support of stuff like that happening everywhere. I think mental Healthcare should be easily accessible and as free as possible and encouraged and supported.
Also PSA about playing Tetris after a traumatic event to help process it! If I had known this little factoid then I'd have played it on my phone while on the train, haha.
Please don't ever do this in Berlin or any place where you don't know how the railway system is powered. In Berlin, everyone of them who went down to the tracks would have probably been electrocuted as the power line of the Berlin S-Bahn is right next to the track.
The power line is usually on the far side of the tracks though? Its also covered by plastic at the top so its hard to touch by accident. The rails themselves are not powered in berlin.
In London, there's no plastic but the live rail is on the opposite side to the platform. And it's quite obvious which rail is live; it's higher than the other two and sits on porcelain insulators.
Madrid was one of the first places to have the power line thing (catenaria) above, which avoids the electrocution. It’s like that in most if not all Spanish tracks.
Not all trains are powered by the third rail (which is the extra rail at subways stops that delivers electricity to the train). And the ones that are always place the electrified rail as far from the platform as possible for this exact reason.
This train appears to have two rails, so it’s getting its power some other way.
I once saved a guy on the tracks in Montreal. Guy got super lucky, he fell between the cars and I managed to stop the train from leaving 1 second before it crushed his head to smithereens
There should be a button behind glass with a camera on it that you could push if someone falls on track which alerts the train operators on that route.
When a train is electrified via the rails, it is not through the two running rails but through a third rail. Since there doesn’t seem to be one here, I would guess there is an overhead line.
I did that once in London! Drunk guy fell on the tracks and the TFL staff thought I was joking on the emergency comms thing (I probably sounded pretty drunk too) so they were slow to respond. Fortunately there was 8 mins before the next train so we had plenty of time to fish him out of there, he cut his head pretty bad on the metal tracks though
Btw, do not do this unless you are certain the metro you are in is not using a way of providing electricity that could easily kill you if you mess something up down there.
Lots of respect for her. The fact that she took on responsibility and acted so decisively attracted the others to join and help.
Wish every difficult scenario in public would be handled like this.
I am realizing I have actually lost my humanity when I look at that lady trying to help from the first second she realized something was wrong. If I saw a guy like that on the subway I would have been like "Great! A dude drugged out of his mind. Hope he doesn't push me onto the tracks or stab me.". Helping the dude wouldn't be on my priority list. Hope I will think like people like her again one day.
Saw one of these once where this happened and the only other guy there jumped down, grabbed the guy's wallet and left him for the train to run over, which it did.
my brother-in-law was a super high functioning guy - until he developed huntington's disease. This guy reminded me of him for sure (not saying that is what is wrong with this person). I worry about him, b/c he wants to be independent - it's good to know that there are decent helpful people out there who would jump into action if need be. Well done!
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Barcelona two days ago. She is a police woman out of duty. Media said the guy wasn’t drunk, but no more details were given.
She was a legitimate star. Situational awareness. Observation. Then immediate action while communicating with the other bystanders. 👍
she also pressed the button on the SOS machine
Edit: at 0:24 she is clearly speaking into the machine too
Did he also press the SOS button? It almost looked like he did when he brushed up against it.
I wonder how aware he was and if he also knew he was in trouble, having a medical episode like an overdose or hypoglycemia.
The times I got hypoglycemia I only had time to say "It seems that I'm going to fall, please give me something with sugar and stay calm". Never ever had as much time as this guy, I get like 10 seconds.
No matter how many times I say stay calm and give me something with sugar, people panic, I fell once in the kitchen and I had just enough time to tell to my father "I'm going to fall", everything went black, I was blind and deaf but I was repeating "give me some juice it's there on the counter" and I was barely feeling how he was grabbing my arms and screaming "don't die on me". Ffs, I'm diabetic sometimes happens, if I didn't die when I fell in the bathroom and banged my head on the toilet I'm gonna be fine. When that happened I remember falling being on the floor blind and deaf losing conscience because the hit and thinking to myself "I'm going to die in the bathroom with my pants down...", then I woke up, with my pants down and a big bruise on my forehead.
Same here. Funny story, um, one time I woke up and my sugar and plummeted on my in my sleep. The night before, I had been watching some clears his throat videos to preform some "self-maintence" if you will and when I got done, I just hit pause on it and set my laptop next to me and went to bed. I woke up and my muscles started locking up and I couldn't control my movements (I knew I was about to have a seizure) and before it took full effect, I had enough strength/control in me to shut the laptop, lol... then proceeded to basically just moan/noises as loud as I could over and over, like "AHHH!! AHHH! HULLL HULLL..P..PUH..AHHH M..MU..MEEEE..AHHHH!" because I couldn't speak coherently, hoping my roommate would hear me (thankfully did, they knew I was a diabetic and sometimes my sugar can really mess me up) and they came back and saw me and called 911 and were proping me up to try to get orange juice in me to help. My last thought before "Am I going to die? Have a seizure?", was "I don't need anyone to see I was watching porn", LOL. Couldn't go out like that.
"What happened to him??!" - He... had a seizure and died from low blood sugar. - "Omg!!!" - Yeah, I walked in and the paramedics came and were working on him and the whole time there was a paused video of a girl glazed in semen paused on his laptop screen."
Edit: spelling
As another diabetic, could I ask how low your sugar was before you got there? I've gotten quite low but never had a seizure or something similar so I am wondering if I just got lucky, or if just never got low "enough" to trigger something like that.
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My body is weird. I usually don't really start noticing until it is like in the 30's. Because I am still coherent and walking and thinking fine and everything and then all the sudden.. yeah. But then there are other times to where I get disoriented and it looks like someone dumped a bucket of water over me and my sugar is in the 70's.
Edit: for more details
I wasn't always a diabetic. When I was diagnosed as one, which, it was really bad, I dropped down to 113lbs and couldn't poop. I was pissing myself. Went to the ER. Walked in. Was like, "I don't feel very good.." and they brought me in, doctor listened to my heart. Told me to sit down. Then stand up. Then she told me to lay on the bed because my heart was about to give out. They had to send my blood off to get read because none of their machines could register it and my sugar was in the 1000's. They were like, "And.. so you just proceeded to walk in here?? You should at least be in a coma."
Edit 2: I am not overweight, never have been. Also, there are... it is weird.. like there are a lot of things as a diabetic I do not have to deal with. I heal normally like everyone else, no heart issues, kidney issues, ect. I mean, as I get older, it isn't getting better, but yeah. There was a time, I want to say about 7 years after I became a brittle diabetic, I was out on a walk, felt fine and then all of the sudden I went out and everything went black. Woke up on the was to the hospital and after it all, the ER doctor told me there is sometimes called a "diabetic honeymoon" to where your pancreas still sort of works, basically in its death throws, so the insulin has to be adjusted. And I told him, "I have been a diabetic for 7 years." and he was just like "Oh....."
My biggest issue is... I have never really ate a lot. And, I went 23 years without having to deal with it, so, I mean, I have gotten better with it learning, but my issue is I have to remember to eat and that I am not "a normie" anymore.
Thank you! I was wondering what she was pressing
Incredible, I've been in the Barcelona metro hundreds of times and literally never noticed an SOS button before. Now I'll probably notice it every day
Almost like this is her profession. Uncanny.
Snark. Have another chicken leg.
Nah. Just because I’m a web developer doesn’t I’m building websites for free while I’m at the grocery store. She did this because she is an excellent standup human being. The profession needs more good people.
Being a first responder or healthcare worker is a little different than being an office worker or tech worker. We don’t usually fully “turn it off” just because we’re not on shift. I might not feel like doing CPR on someone in public off shift, but the consequences of not doing so are greater than not building a website..
It's not about her doing it for "free", it was about the fact that she possessed all of the skills for Emerg response due to her being an emergency responder as her day job.
Would you spend 2 minutes designing a website if it meant it saved a life though?
Or are you just religiously an 8 to 5 kind of guy?
That'd be one hell of a website design.
The plot of John wick 9:
“BUILD THE WEB APP OR THE FUCKING DOG DIES”
“no, I don’t think I will”
Title card
I'm gonna cure cancer with html.
CSS - Cancer Solution Superhero
Most people have the situation awareness of a carrot.
If you ask the internet all police do is stand around and be racist so I guess by that logic it’s noteworthy.
Looking at how he held his hands, it seemed like he was disabled in some way and was struggling. It didn’t look like drunk behaviour to me.
As a diabetic it feels like he may have had a low blood sugar.
I was about to say I saw a video of someone who looked like a drunk driver but was actually a diabetic with low blood sugar
I crashed my car into a telephone pole once. Its a very scary thing if it sneaks up on you it can easily be fatal.
Could be a diabetic who missed their insulin - they can present like someone who is intoxicated.
Edit: apparently caused by not having sugar rather than not having insulin.
Thats when their blood sugar drops , missing insulin would cause it to go higher not lower . It could very well be a hypo but not caused by missed insulin. Im an insulin user.
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Just to clarify a small detail for anyone confused: when you said "hypo" you meant hypoinsulinemia (which causes high blood sugar and possibile keto acidosis), while the comments above used "hypo" to indicate hypoglicemia (low blood sugar, it can happen if you don't eat enough after taking insulin).
And speaking as someone in the medical field, when someone talks about a diabetic hypo, it almost always refers to hypoglycaemia. Hypoinsulinemia isn’t a commonly used term.
This happened to a friend - I was hazy on the details of what happened. We were working on a building site and lost him and somehow someone saw him behaving like a drunk person on the street. Something must have been off because they searched him and found a business card for the building manager and brought him to reception. We called an ambulance and they took him to hospital… all super scary.
I had my diabetic friend lost in my own building after he went out to buy something, i found him in the top floor in the dark just standing there talking nonsese lol. We laughed later, but that shit was scary as hell, he was like a zombie.
My first thought was they were low on blood sugar. The way they run to kinda catch themselves is pretty distinct.
Other way around. This isn't a high blood sugar.
Just saw body cam footage of a chill responding to a call from a hospital reporting a woman they said was looking for drugs, she was released from hospital after being treated for diabetes.
They tested her for practically everything regarding drugs and she tested negative. Cops jailed her for public intoxication, after breakfast they said she seemed normal but then was later found by another inmate laying on the floor of her cell. She had a stroke and died a few days later.
The jail tested her blood sugar levels at 360 mg/dl, which is pretty high
Absolutely. Saw a kid in a diabetic blackout a Cpl times. Acted drunk af.
That could be a hypo = too much insulins vs blood sugar. If you ever think a diabetic is in trouble fill them with sugar
I assumed she was either PD or someone in the medical field.
Nice to see people caring.
What a kind lady she wasted no time jumping into action
It's like she was mentally prepping for that exact thing to happen.
Edit: Saw in the comments that she is police, so that makes sense
I assumed nurse, but cop makes sense too.
Both professions deal with a lot of mentally unwell people. You either meet the kindest and most noble people working as them, or absolute narcissists who want power over vulnerable people.
First thought was drunk, second was diabetic with low blood sugar. That shit can fuck with you so hard.
They look soo similar. The amount of combative "drunk" people I have ran into when working on an ambulance were fixed by holding them down and forcing sugar into them lol
Not sure you're really meant to run into them, jeez lol
It's in Spain, apparently, I guess police academies don't kick people out for being too intelligent there
You will find police in the US whoncare just as much. One of the paramedics I worked with when I was an EMT was also an cop, and she was pretty compassionate, an rare trait to have in that field.
It was a nurse the stopped for me when I wrecked my bike and nearly died. She couldn't do shit at the time but provide comfort, but I was grateful for her.
I know I was
She definitely clocked that something was up with him
lol, I don't think you gotta be a cop to see that
She is a police officer
Makes sense, you could see she was watchin him and the way she got up out of tge tracks looled like she knew how to scale a wall
She clocked him as a hazard immediately. Impressive.
I'm sorry but look at him walking it doesn't take a people reading genius to clock that he was not in good shape lol
This same thing happened to me and a few others one time. Waiting on the platform and a homeless dude wanders in, clearly out of his gourd. We're all keeping an eye on him as he stumbles towards the edge and then teeters onto the track - and a group of like 5 of us, total strangers, proceed to leap down and haul his ass back up. You can definitely tell when someone's in rough enough shape that something calamitous is going to happen.
She should get a medal.
That first look of confusion, then the look back like fuck am I going to have to do a thing? Ah dammit, here we go. Nice to see other guys stepping in quickly.
She had less than a minute before the next train came too.
Aye that lass didn't hesitate and neither did the others. Could have been so bad
sometimes all it takes really is someone to do the first step.
And helping each other. The one guy helped the other guy out. So nice to see
It truly warms the heart.
These are the types of events the media should be covering instead of how terrible everything is.
Doesn't get the same number of clicks. People want to be upset about something.
I agree with you, though.
No one filming and many helping. We the people are healing. We must care for each other and practice empathy over judgement. Its our only hope 🫂
Its not in the US.
(I am from the US)
Most people do. It’s just the news that convinces you that people don’t.
That fall looked like it hurt. I know it could've been much worse but damn that was still bad
He seemed to have fallen in a limp manner, that may have helped prevent injuries. That’s why babies don’t injure themselves
Babies don't get hurt when they fall because they're very short and weigh like 90% less than you.
This is the reason. Comment you’re replying to is dumb
And why drunk drivers are typically the only ones to survive the crashes and not the family or other family sadly. Racing drivers have trained long and hard to just flow in crashes. At that point you have no choice. Cross your arms over your chest and go for the terrible ride. A normal person can’t think like that in panic mode.
don't even try to protect your eyes? that's always my first instinct
They wear helmets at races usually, also with an airbag having hands in your face can seriously injure you.
Well that and they're really just a bag of bones loosely connected by cartilage for a long time.
It definitely was. I had the same situation four years ago. The dude hit his knees on one rail and his head on the other, so he was unconscious for a minute. Probably good for him, as we could lift him out without pain. When the ambulance arrived he was already crying from pain. They cut his jeans open and his kneecap was 10cm above the place where it should be.
Falling is much more dangerous than people think. If you can’t protect yourself while doing it, you don’t even need falling down like he did to die. Just hit your head from falling over and you’re gone.
Hell yeah! I love seeing coordinated teamwork between complete strangers. They saw the problem, assessed, and quickly resolved it together.
My buddy acted like this when his sugar got low.
Yeah. People are often too quick to just assume drugs and stop caring.
I assumed some kind of stroke, lots of people do seemingly nonsensical things when they’re in one. But yeah, people are quick to blame when they think something is self inflicted
I was going to say that this level of altered looks more like glucose level or head trauma than drugs
Funny you say that because it happened to me with a dangerous low blood sugar that I didn’t notice. I suddenly started to stumble while crossing a busy road. Dragged myself across but fell in the process and finally collapsed on the sidewalk. Someone came and helped and waved down an ambulance that was there just by chance. Paramedics told me they thought I was just a drunk and wanted to leave and not get involved initially. You definitely walk like a drunk person when your blood sugars are very low.
I know right! Good work by all!
Human society at its best.
Makes me feel humanity isn’t a lost cause
Yeah, it's great when strangers help, like my parents were hit head-on in a car crash by a drunk driver. The people that were on the road stopped immediately, called for help, got the injured people out of the wreckages when the fire was burning and rendered first aid. All survived, but the drunk driver is now facing jail for his actions of driving while being intoxicated.
Also, in this case, can't complain about the insurance company. They paid everything. The case worker of the insurance company left a "get well soon" hand written card in the mail with the paid bills.
With the way the world has been lately, I was honestly expecting the guy to push the woman onto the tracks.
I’m happy to have been proven wrong though.
I thought he was gonna assault her, but after he started stumbling I knew where it was going. Very fucking lucky that the train was far cause I've seen many have no time to be saved
Hi! I'm from Barcelona. The button she press in the video just when the guy falls is the emergency call that all the stations have here. So it is possible that any incoming train was already stopping.
That is very proactive! I thought she was calling for an elevator. Every station in the world should have this button.
You aren’t alone, I thought he was gonna do something to her
You have no idea how refreshing it is to see people actually trying to help him. The concern on their faces.
Love when humans are kind.
She did what everyone of us should do.
See people, call for help, help yourself if you can.
Videos like this makes me warm inside, that many strangers care, act and help.
In these time with all shit you see in social media and politics it is important to see and be reminded that most people are caring and decent.
Humans like that woman is what keeps the world good
I don't understand why every subway doesn't have at least a protective fence with automatic gates. Can't be more expensive than dealing with this kind of event.
Platform screen doors are quite expensive to instal and incidents like this are very rare.
It is certainly the case that modern thought is that there should be barriers on subway platforms and most systems that dont have them are looking at ways of implementation.
but costs can be huge, especially with older systems which might not easily accomodate them.
They also require unified stock. So London which has multiple stock and shared running in large parts of the central sysetm, probably will never have them system wide and that's the biggest subway system in the world.
London already has platform screens on the Jubilee line and plans to add them to other lines too. It is expensive though, you’re right on that point.
Yes cos Jubilee line doesnt have shared running and was designed from scratch with them.
I guess my statements not clear. I meant it never going to be system wide.
This and platform gap fillers.
To be fair, this specific event didn't cost the subway anything
It's often more complicated engineering-wise than it seems (for example the subway has to perfectly align with the doors, the platform must support the weight, etc.). In Paris they added them to two and half lines (1 and 4, which were automated, and some stops on the 13 for safety reasons) but it took retrofit work if I'm not mistaken.
That fucking girl is a goddamn hero. As is yellow hat, white jacket, and blue jacket who helped get everybody get back into the boat. Damn!
I saved a young girl from some light rail tracks, she fell crossing them in the rain and split her head wide open to the skull, she was not getting up and I had to run across several tracks to get to her. I started dragging her off the tracks as another guy jumped down to help, and we safely pulled her up to the platform as I could see the train making its way into the station. I ripped off my shirt (I was a bra-less gal, thank g I had an extra under layer lol) and wrapped her head with it. Finally the station guard caught up to us and said he'd take over calling her parents and medical etc. I crossed back to my platform and boarded my train, then the crying and shaking started. Even talking about it again has my adrenaline going crazy!
That lady was awesome and inspiring to watch in action, and makes me finally feel a little pride in my own self, which is a rarity.
Sounds like you saved that persons life, be proud of yourself!
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Sounds heavy. Do you think it would have helped to have had someone professional to talk to right away? I think most European countries at least have some form of victim support that would also help deal with emotions after an event like this.
Perhaps! Once the rush passed and I calmed down I really didn't think about it much after that, except random "I wonder if she's okay" thoughts in the following years. I am prone to adrenaline dumps and have always had a dysregulated nervous system so I guess I didn't read into my response too much... though in retrospect, I do think my body responded and regulated appropriately for this situation.
Regardless of my experience i think support afterwards for all involved is an awesome thing for those European countries to be doing, and I am in big support of stuff like that happening everywhere. I think mental Healthcare should be easily accessible and as free as possible and encouraged and supported.
Also PSA about playing Tetris after a traumatic event to help process it! If I had known this little factoid then I'd have played it on my phone while on the train, haha.
Bro you saved someone's life
You better feel some fucking pride
Please don't ever do this in Berlin or any place where you don't know how the railway system is powered. In Berlin, everyone of them who went down to the tracks would have probably been electrocuted as the power line of the Berlin S-Bahn is right next to the track.
The power line is usually on the far side of the tracks though? Its also covered by plastic at the top so its hard to touch by accident. The rails themselves are not powered in berlin.
In London, there's no plastic but the live rail is on the opposite side to the platform. And it's quite obvious which rail is live; it's higher than the other two and sits on porcelain insulators.
Madrid was one of the first places to have the power line thing (catenaria) above, which avoids the electrocution. It’s like that in most if not all Spanish tracks.
It’s called the third rail and it’s over by the wall. I’ve never known the tracks to be electrified.
Kinda idiotic of Berlin no? Unless they have some sort of plexiglass separating the platform and track.
Heroes every one!
Situational awareness and selfless bravery? She's awesome
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Not all trains are powered by the third rail (which is the extra rail at subways stops that delivers electricity to the train). And the ones that are always place the electrified rail as far from the platform as possible for this exact reason.
This train appears to have two rails, so it’s getting its power some other way.
That woman is a treasure!
Absolute legend, that lady right there!
The day I stop believing that people, as a whole, aren't decent and good will be my last.
Im glad so many jumped right into action and weren't frozen by the bystander effect
Lady is a goddamn hero.
Opiates, diabetes, or disabled. I've been around a loooooooot of drunks before, and that ain't it.
That is not how I expected that situation to play out. Chick is a bad ass for sure.
I once saved a guy on the tracks in Montreal. Guy got super lucky, he fell between the cars and I managed to stop the train from leaving 1 second before it crushed his head to smithereens
Thank God for the helpers.
That video is actually in Barcelona. That lady is a cop who just happened to be there in her free time
Good humans
That lady is an absolute boss!!!! I wish more people cared and acted like this.
Fair play to her she kept her eye on him throughout.
Nice to see people helping and not filming
hat off to that lady, and the others helping out
Shit like this really increases my faith in humanity. They jumped down to help with zero hesitation
That woman is a soldier. She didn't hesitate for a second.
I thought this was going another way
Great to watch everyone joining in to save this guy, I wonder if he realised just how lucky he was that day
Bunch of heroes there, but the lady got it all started.
She is alert , smart & truly a super human
So reassuring to see all the people in this video getting involved right away, without a second of hesitation!
That lady is a hero. Anticipating the worst outcome and then jumped at once
Nice to see people helping rather than getting their phones out and filming it... probably because it isn't America.
Wonder woman saved his life. The public responded. God bless them all.
There should be a button behind glass with a camera on it that you could push if someone falls on track which alerts the train operators on that route.
I thought standing on the rails would get you electrified
Fortunately not here, they must have only one rail that's electrified or something.
When a train is electrified via the rails, it is not through the two running rails but through a third rail. Since there doesn’t seem to be one here, I would guess there is an overhead line.
Probably, I am just happy no one got electrocuted 😭
The electrified lines in Barcelona are overhead.
I did that once in London! Drunk guy fell on the tracks and the TFL staff thought I was joking on the emergency comms thing (I probably sounded pretty drunk too) so they were slow to respond. Fortunately there was 8 mins before the next train so we had plenty of time to fish him out of there, he cut his head pretty bad on the metal tracks though
Ouch hes gonna feel that in the morning
Esto ocurrió en en metro de Barcelona y la mujer es Policía fuera de servicio 🤍
Not today Gantz
She’s a hero
I wonder if she’s in the medical field.
It's good to see other humans as humans no matter what they do.
Oh I love her. She knew the moment she saw him something ain't right.
Those people are real g’s for acting so fast!
Extra points for giving the Last guy on the tracks extra help.
All humans should be kind like this
She was so across it, likely clocked him as a safety issue for her, but then didn’t hesitate to act when she saw him fall. Legend!
What a hero
She's a wonderful human being
I love the fact that blonde lady isn't even looking for a train coming but just jumps in and gets to it. Awesome.
Good people
Btw, do not do this unless you are certain the metro you are in is not using a way of providing electricity that could easily kill you if you mess something up down there.
That lady is a real one!
She looks like the plane lady that said that mother fuxker right there aint real 😆
Good job the lady kept and eye on him
Humans working together, love to see it 🙏🏿
Why don’t subways have a barrier or something that retracts when the train arrives?
I fuckin' love kind people. I don't care if it get band from this sub for language... Bless those people.
Bro he fell hard man😨 happy to see that humanity is still alive too
That woman is ahero.
God bless that woman, she didn't need to do any of that.
To literally jump onto literal train tracks without hesitation to help a total stranger is pretty badass
I like the unity there. Shit, if this was NY, they’ll stare and pull phones out.
That woman's a fucking hero. Seen the potential for danger, stuck around and ran to his rescue.
Amazing lady 🙏
Fuckin' legends, every single one of them. So good to see so many people coming to assist.
Happened to a stranger in Germany, I jumped after him to help, nobody else did something - the trainstation was full with people…
Lots of respect for her. The fact that she took on responsibility and acted so decisively attracted the others to join and help. Wish every difficult scenario in public would be handled like this.
Good for you people actually helping
Wow, she actually put her phone away so she could help a fellow human being, instead of just filming him.
I want to nominate this woman (and others in this video) for the anti-Karen award. She showed that she really cared!
She put her phone away as she got ready to help!
I am realizing I have actually lost my humanity when I look at that lady trying to help from the first second she realized something was wrong. If I saw a guy like that on the subway I would have been like "Great! A dude drugged out of his mind. Hope he doesn't push me onto the tracks or stab me.". Helping the dude wouldn't be on my priority list. Hope I will think like people like her again one day.
See! WE DON'T SUCK!
Saw one of these once where this happened and the only other guy there jumped down, grabbed the guy's wallet and left him for the train to run over, which it did.
She says, “Is there something wrong with you?” as the man passes her on the turnaround
That woman is my hero
Can't you get electrocuted on some of those tracks?
The good side of humanity. Amazing team work.
The poor guy. I hope he gets help. Good for her for caring instead of just judging and walking away
That women was awesome.
my brother-in-law was a super high functioning guy - until he developed huntington's disease. This guy reminded me of him for sure (not saying that is what is wrong with this person). I worry about him, b/c he wants to be independent - it's good to know that there are decent helpful people out there who would jump into action if need be. Well done!