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on Fri Aug 17 17:41:22 2012
edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d New York Subway motorman saves kitten stuck in a Sun Chips bag on the train track
Rescued cat lived to enjoy another eight lives
By Barry Paddock / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, August 17, 2012, 2:00 AM
Updated: Friday, August 17, 2012, 4:08 PM
A subway conductor honored by the Daily News last month for tackling a madman who stabbed a passenger in 2009 has saved a kitten stuck in a Sun Chip bag. The cat is out of the bag, thanks to a kind-hearted subway motorman who hit the brakes just in time.
John Ross — who was recently honored by The Daily News for chasing down a madman who’d stabbed a passenger — showed his heroics again this week when he saved a helpless kitty from being crushed by his train.
The 42-year-old motorman was pulling his Franklin Shuttle train out of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden station about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday when he spotted trouble. A cat with a Sun Chips bag over its head was lying smack in the middle of the tracks.
“I'm saying, ‘What happened here?’ ” Ross told The News, astonishment still fresh in his voice.
“I figured it may be a cruel trick by some kids — or the cat might be trying to get some food.”
He pulled the hand brake, and the train screeched to a halt just a few feet from the feline in distress.
“Decapitation, that was a possibility,” he said.
Ross made an announcement that he needed to clear something from the roadbed and clambered out of the rush-hour train.
He even managed to snap a couple pictures of the bizarre situation before he approached the frightened feline. “I saw he was alive — he was moving,” Ross said. “I actually petted him.”
Then he pulled the suffocating bag from the cat's head.
“He looked at me for a minute like, 'Wow, I don't know where I've been,’ ” Ross said. Then the cat dashed down the tracks.
“He took off like a bandit,” he said. “He seemed to be fine.”
Ross was featured in The News last month as a nominee for a Hometown Heroes in Transit Award for halting a man who went berserk on a subway in 2009. Ross was off-duty, riding an A train to Brooklyn from a Valentine's Day dinner when he witnessed ex-con Victor Matos repeatedly plunge a knife into a 51-year-old Manhattan man.
When Matos fled, at the High St. stop in Brooklyn, Ross chased him down the platform, tackled him to the ground and held him until cops came.
Matos is now in prison. The victim, Thomas Richard, spent a week in the hospital but survived.
Ross was happy to spring into action again this week to save one of the feline's nine lives, even though his experience with cats is limited.
“I don't have cats,” Ross said. “I have a little dog.”
With Pete Donohue
bpaddock@nydailynews.com
Submit your Hometown Heroes nomination via email, fax or mail.
Email: HometownHeroes@NYDailyNews.com
Fax: 212-210-1505
Letter: Mail to Hometown Heroes, P.O. Box 5040, Bowling Green, NY 10274
Nominations must be postmarked/received by Friday, September 14, 2012.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/subway-conductor-saves-kitten-stuck-a-sun-chips-bag-train-track-article-1.1138042#ixzz23qHaDhfB
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