DOOMED

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I just watched the photographer interviewed on CNN. In hindsight, he wishes he'd yelled at the guy to run away from the train. So obvious but I can see that common sense getting lost in the hysteria. Sad.

This is kind of to my point.
So the photog wishes he had yelled at the guy to run away from the train. Ok, lets look at that a bit, In the pic the train is 30 feet of less from the guy and rolling fast, what? 25MPH? Thats 36 feet per second, So the guy yells instead of pushing the button. The victim hears the yell, processes it, understands it, turns and runs right?
He has to run out past the end of the platform to escape, thats 50 or 60 feet away, a human can run 20 mph which is 29 feet persecond (thats a world class sprinter) It will take minimum of 2 seconds for a runner to cover the distance. See where this is going?
When the photog made the decision (not when he pushed the button) to take the pic, the victim was already fucked and there was no escape.
There were probably a lot of people on the platform that would have helped given 2 or 3 more seconds to process the scene and what was going on. It didn't happen that way. The train operator did what he was supposed to do as soon as it was humanly possible to do it, his consience should be clear, but he will beat himself up over it anyways.
DMP, don't do it to yourself too. Watch your ass in places like that, there are a lot of crazy motherfuckers out there, one of the many reasons I don't live in a big city.