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California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero! |
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Posted by Easy on Thu Aug 13 22:21:06 2020 LA Times. Video in link. |
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Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero! |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Aug 13 23:29:02 2020, in response to California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by Easy on Thu Aug 13 22:21:06 2020. From what was shown and heard, it doesn't seem the engineer ever instituted an emergency brake application.....just leaned on the horn. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Aug 13 23:34:05 2020, in response to California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by Easy on Thu Aug 13 22:21:06 2020. thanks for posting.amazing video. Bill nails it. The engineer does not take an emergency brake. NYC Transit would take him out of service maybe fire him. I guess the horn was blown simply because the engineer saw that he was passing a crossing and it's the law to sound the horn. But he seems to see nothing else. |
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Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero! |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Aug 13 23:54:59 2020, in response to Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Aug 13 23:29:02 2020. for some reason the engineer does not seem to see the wheelchair and police officer.He clearly sees the grade crossing because he blows his horn. I actually could understand how someone seated in a wheel chair could kind of blend into the roadbed at a crossing and not be as visible as people assume. |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Thu Aug 13 23:57:18 2020, in response to California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by Easy on Thu Aug 13 22:21:06 2020. When in a wheelchair, do not attempt to cross RR tracks. |
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Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero! |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Fri Aug 14 00:14:05 2020, in response to Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by Steamdriven on Thu Aug 13 23:57:18 2020. probably someone living in poverty who has to cross the tracks to get food or see friends. |
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Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero! |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Fri Aug 14 02:01:22 2020, in response to Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by LuchAAA on Fri Aug 14 00:14:05 2020. Sure, he wanted to go somewhere and it's his biz where, when and why. He has every right to roll around just to get outside.It's also up to him not to tempt fate. Crossing live RR tracks with something meant only to go from your front door to a lift-equipped vehicle is tempting fate. CA has paratransit service. There's hassles to using that, but if you have a hazard like RR tracks on your route it's what you gotta do. You'd certainly want to use paratrans go grocery shopping, it's pita to load stuff onto a wheelchair. |
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Posted by Q4 on Fri Aug 14 10:21:20 2020, in response to Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Aug 13 23:34:05 2020. While the Engineer should have hit the emergency brake (if he or she saw the obstruction on the tracks) that train was not going to stop in time.I hope the gentlemen recovers and nice job by the Police Officer. |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Aug 14 16:52:35 2020, in response to Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by Steamdriven on Fri Aug 14 02:01:22 2020. If paratransit in Ca is anything like it is in NYC it’s probably so inefficient as to render it functionally useless. |
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Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero! |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Fri Aug 14 17:33:10 2020, in response to Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by randyo on Fri Aug 14 16:52:35 2020. It depends on what you use it for. For normal life, when you want to decide to go here or there an hour before doing it, it’s almost unusable. Almost. You can’t go wherever you want, whenever you want, without prior planning.But you don’t have to use the para-transit bus. You can get an authorization to use a taxi on a specific day, for a a specific trip or less. You then fill out a form and mail in the receipts, they send you back the cost minus one transit fare per trip, or zero deducted while the Wuhan Virus emergency is in effect. If they make it much easier, the system goes bankrupt and drags down regular transit with it. It’s definitely a pain, but much less pain than buying, insuring and maintaining a vehicle in an old, high density city where your vehicle is a hunting license for the City’s tax (tax toll ticket) spear-fishers. Try the para-transit system one country South, after that ours looks pretty d-m good. |
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Posted by Steamdriven on Fri Aug 14 17:35:20 2020, in response to Re: California police officer drags man off wheelchair and is called a hero!, posted by Q4 on Fri Aug 14 10:21:20 2020. It seems like he was not overlapping the rail at impact, so he’ll have all his pieces. Excellent work by that cop, and selfless. She could have been spun into the train and whacked on the head, then that’s it. |
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