Cool story about a Subway hero (new one that happened the other day)

[fujiyama]

Didn't think it was LBN since it happened a few days ago...but here's the kind of story that reminds you that there are people like him and that other man that saved the guy last year. Amazing quick thinking people. Real heroes that just don't think twice to risk their life to save another...

http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/subway.hero.new.2.681825.html

NEW YORK (CBS) ― You're about to meet a subway hero, who jumped onto the tracks to save a man. But as CBS 2 HD has learned, his leap of faith was just the beginning.

Veeramuthu Kalimuthu -- or Kali – is a mechanic at Columbia University. His recent actions make him a hero in the truest sense of the word. And if not for someone else coming forward to tell his story, the public would never know what he did on March 14.

At around 5 p.m. that day he headed to the downtown No. 1 train at 116th Street in Morningside Heights to go home to Jamaica.

"I heard everybody was screaming, you know, and everybody was running in different direction," Kalimuthu said.

A man had fallen onto the tracks from the opposite platform, all the way on the other side of the station.

"People were getting their cell phones out trying to call the police, somebody's got to help him and then I looked over and I saw the gentlemen Kali jump down, hop over the rails," said witness Ed Dijoseph, who brought Kali's story to CBS 2 HD.

[Sanity Claws]

1. That is so dangerous.

It's dangerous enough to jump down and rescue someone on the tracks right near you but to go across like that to the opposite platform meant he had to go past two third rails. Touch a third rail and thou art no more.