New York Post Publishes Horrifying Cover Of Man About To Die On Subway Tracks
The New York Post ran a cover this morning of a man seconds before he was hit by a subway. Many are outraged that nothing was done to help him.
2. As the cover circulated, many on the internet demanded to know why nothing was done to help the man.
6. The photographer who sold the photo to The Post explains why he took the photo:
Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator.
“I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” said Abbasi, whose camera captured chilling shots of Suk’s tragic fight for his life.
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SteelRenegade 5 months agoInteresting response from photographer… its amazing how good the photo is for someone running towards the train, using their flash to warn the driver. I would think that if you are running at a speed to save someone, that you wouldn’t be holding the camera so positioned like that.. wouldn’t it be blurry and the photo in angles from so much movement from trying to do all that you could, even if you didn’t get there in time? Hmmmm….
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SatelliteJane 5 months agoIn Stockholm there is space under the platform where a person can hide if they fall down on the tracks and a train comes. It runs along the platform, so the platform is actually a ledge over the space. Don’t they have that in NY? If they don’t, then why the hell not?! Poor guy. Poor train driver, what a nightmare to realise that the vehicle you’re driving is about to kill someone, and there is nothing you can do about it (you can’t stop a huge train in such a short distance) Do train drivers get some kind of counselling after events like these?
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michaelm60 5 months agoListen, everybody get off the photographer’s butt about this. Sure, trying to use his flash to signal the driver may not have been the greatest idea… but maybe, just maybe, it’s really hard to think coherently in a situation where OH MY GOD THAT DUDE FELL ON THE TRACKS WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO?! I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! He used the one tool he had immediately at his disposal. Also, give him a break for selling the picture to the post. 1) He’s a freelance photographer. That’s how the dude earns his living. 2) It is a newsworthy photograph, so “HOW DARE HE SELL IT TO A NEWSPAPER! THAT’S DESPICABLE!” seems like a weird thing to say. What is he supposed to do, just ignore the fact that he has this incredible (albeit incredibly sad) moment capture in an image that is compelling? (3) How would the photographer know that the Post would use the worst caption that it possibly could? They also could have just ran the photo along with a story that described what happened… it’s not like the photographer submitted it to the Post and said “By the way, you should totally run this with a caption that says ‘HEY LOOK AT THIS GUY! HE’S TOTALLY GONNA DIE IN A SECOND HERE AND HE KNOWS IT! WHAT A DOOFUS!” The Post, however, is trash, and its actions ARE despicable and avoidable.
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boweryboy 5 months agoWe live in an apathetic society thanks to technology’s ability to divorce ourselves from reality. Instead of helping the man, the guy snaps photos and then sells them for a profit to a rag that prints the victim’s dying moments. Is anything sacred anymore? Disgusting and morally bankrupt all around
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michaelm60 5 months ago
And you are clearly SOOO superior, since you are judging from high ON THE FUCKING INTERNET.
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dandilioness 5 months agoI just started running and running hoping someone would see my flash and when they didn’t, I just started shopping and shopping the photo to see who would give me the most money.
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chris trash 5 months ago
Even if he did flash his camera to warn the conductor, which I doubt, the only thing that did was distract the conductor. lets hope for a deep investigation into this.
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itmustbeken 5 months ago“I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” Are you fucking kidding me?
Not only are you a piece of crap human being, you are an idiot if you think anyone believes that. And IF you believe that, you are a bigger fucking idiot. -
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Mozart The Cat 5 months agoSome clever, quick thinking by the photographer to signal the train operator with his flash…unfortunate that he decided to profit from it.
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omgbrookeily 5 months ago
So you take a picture instead of trying to save the guy. What the heck? Prioritise people!
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trollprincess 5 months ago
Even if the driver spotted the flash, it’s unlikely he would have been able to stop in time. Even if the train’s that close, it’s more likely to hit the guy — or worse, catch the guy between the train and the platform, which has happened before and ends with the guy’s body spinning like a top below the waist while he’s still alive, leaving him alive right up until they remove the train. As a “rescue attempt,” it’s a stupid one.
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Anarchasis 5 months ago
Oh right, the well-known subway signal for “man own on the tracks.” But there’s improvement I guess, this time you didn’t bother to mention Benghazi.
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WuTangPam 5 months agoI’m pretty sure the conductor saw the guy. It is part of their training, and why there are lights on the front of the train. However, like trollprincess pointed out, it is impossible for him to apply the brakes and have the train slow down in time, no matter the speed.
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