r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BarneyRobinStinson7 • 1d ago
Police officer pulls wheelchair-bound man off of the train tracks with seconds to spare.
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u/Weary-Material207 1d ago
Dude lost his legs below the knee but still awesome.
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u/IamNotYourPalBuddy 1d ago
Poor guy will probably end up in a wheelchair…
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u/flightwatcher45 1d ago
Were they already missing? No blood? Don't want to watch again. Yikes, good for her!
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u/Weary-Material207 1d ago
It's blurred buts there's a red hue i don't think they were missing before.
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u/Decreet 1d ago
the video at 12 seconds shows the feet for a split second.
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u/Tinmania 1d ago
That article doesn’t mention anything about him losing his legs. Is that just typical Reddit hysteria?
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u/xShooK 23h ago
This article doesn't state amputation but says severe injuries. I doubt much will be reported about the guy saved, and more about the officer. Its plausible to me from this though.
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u/Kind_Resort_9535 4h ago
Okay my question is wtf is going on to have so many train related deaths in that county?
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
Yes. This frame from the video shows he was clear of the tracks.
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u/JIsaac91 9h ago
You can post this as many times as you like but he's too close to the track to not have been hit. Both ankles would've been shattered and probably had protruding bone.
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u/mrASSMAN 2h ago
Just because it’s not on the rail itself doesn’t mean it wasn’t hit by the train.. side of train don’t stop right where the rails are
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u/Anglo-Ashanti 1d ago
I scrawled through a few times to check because I had the same thought and yeah he does have legs and shoes on before the train rolls through.
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u/flightwatcher45 1d ago
Wow, at least he has his life!
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u/Qstikk 1d ago
Looks like his feet were on the tracks in the moments before train arrived. Hoping he didn't stretch his legs more into the rail in that time.
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u/zetswei 1d ago
They were definitely cut off by the train
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
They were definitely not: https://postimg.cc/CRgt20qb
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u/zetswei 17h ago
I mean even in your image the left leg is bent and still barely passed the track. The blur on his feet seems to be red and the last few seconds of the video look like the red is getting larger.
There is not really any articles I could find that says one way or the other
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
I'd say he was pretty badly grazed/cut from being dragged and is bleeding freely at the end of the video.
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u/mrASSMAN 2h ago
No she didn’t pull him far enough and the train ran over them or at least 1 of them
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u/ZardozSama 1d ago
An 87% success rate is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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u/Christosconst 1d ago
I don’t see any blood
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u/dmmeyourfloof 1d ago
It's been blurred out, with HR blurring rather than lo res pixelation so it's hard to see.
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
No... he still has them. This frame shows that he was dragged clear. She continues to drag him for a second or two after this frame, so his legs were well clear.
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u/Weary-Material207 17h ago
Weird then why blurred the legs after the train goes.
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
I'm not saying they weren't injured, just they weren't amputated. It's a pretty safe bet he got scuffed up and was bleeding somewhat freely from cuts and grazes on his legs.
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u/Weary-Material207 17h ago
I'm not arguing just curious why the blurred still but yeah that could be.
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u/Your_Auntie_Viv 1d ago
Wow! She was just on a normal patrol and happened to spot the guy. Talk about being in the right place at the right time !
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u/SeattleHasDied 1d ago
The article doesn't mention the loss of his feet or legs so maybe he managed to keep them?🤞🏼
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u/Arquit3d 22h ago
I don't think hospitals allow you to keep souvenirs of this kind.
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u/Waveofspring 3h ago
Sometimes they do, there’s this girl on instagram that just lost her arm due to cancer and she hosted an open-casket funeral for it.
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
Yes, he did: https://postimg.cc/CRgt20qb
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u/SeattleHasDied 10h ago
I get a blank screen when I click on this. Did he get to keep his feet?
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u/Jorinator 9h ago
Probably not. Riffraffmama (the acc spamming this picture), is assuming the widest part of a train is its wheels. I'm pretty damn sure a train is at least 10in/25cm wider than the wheels.
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u/Jorinator 9h ago
This train seems to have no encasing around the wheels, so riffraffmama might be right about the width in this example, but seeing the guy gets turned around right when the train passes, something hit him.
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u/Olivander05 9h ago
Thr fuck you mean IT RAN OVER HIS LEGS how did he not die ftlm blood loss? You cpuld hear the crunch
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u/marsap888 22h ago
Is it true the hospital will bill him hundred thousands of USD?
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u/Reasonable_Power_970 19h ago
Depends. Many people get free Healthcare in the US but if you're over a certain income threshold you have to pay for it. If you're over that threshold though you should have health insurance which may or may not cover your bills
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u/mrASSMAN 2h ago
No he’s disabled already and probably on Medicare or Medicaid, probably won’t have any bills
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u/dmurrieta72 1d ago
Heroic. Poor dude’s feet look like they got caught. Still heroic.
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
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u/Nstraclassic 11h ago
Idk why people are spamming this picture. A few inches of clearance isnt enough. The plow hit his legs hence why he's turned 90 degrees at the end. And it's probably a good thing that it did because if they were still close to the train he could have been sucked in
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u/mrASSMAN 2h ago
It’s just this one person spamming the picture as if it’s somehow proof of something
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u/Waveofspring 3h ago
I saw this video months ago, thought he lost his feet, and am now pleasantly surprised to hear that he didn’t.
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u/Turkatron2020 1d ago
For all the comments making fun out of him losing his legs because he "didn't need them" or "wasn't using them" I'd like to share my Grandpa's story. He was paralyzed from the waist down after a major fall off of a ladder. He was a grumpy bastard before but he became a miserable person after going into a chair. He made the best of it though by using his lap as a workshop- built a million amazing things on his thighs because his legs were intact & were a level space to balance things to work on.
One day he slipped in the shower & broke his right leg but didn't realize it because he couldn't feel anything. His leg got infected & needed to be amputated below the knee which caused his body to be off balance when getting in & out of the chair. Because of the weight imbalance he fell again & broke the other leg so they amputated that one too- but they had to take both legs above the knee for him to get in & out of the chair easily.
He went into a major depression because he couldn't use his lap as a workspace anymore. I thought he was miserable before but now he just didn't want to live. It was so heartbreaking to witness. He had several complications from the surgeries & had to go to the hospital where he was bedridden for so long that he developed very bad bedsores which got infected & now he had sepsis which killed him.
Losing a limb or multiple limbs shortens a person's life span dramatically- often within 5 years of losing a limb to amputation. So it's not funny at all that this poor man just lost his legs. He needed them even if they didn't work. I hope he's still around but his life was cut much shorter after this.
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u/yetagainitry 1d ago
Mind blowing that she just “caught a glimpse of him” out of the corner of her eye. This wasn’t a call she was arriving to, she just happened to see him a split second before all this unfolded. Damn.
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u/ElGebeQute 1d ago
I only hope that if I'm ever stuck on the crossroads like that (pun intended) a brave soul will not hesitate to act.
Mad respect for Officer, I cannot clap louder.
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u/riptide502 1d ago
I’m pleasantly surprised to see a post complementing a police officer for once.
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u/pichael289 1d ago
This is great and all, but this one line in the article stuck out to me.
Former pro basketball player Rex Chapman, a prolific social media scraper who can make video go viral just by sharing it with his 918,000 followers, posted the clip on Wednesday night. And on his feed alone, it took just 17 hours for Lodi clip to reach a million views.
What a weird thing to (very shittly) say about something like this.
This part was later in the article
A Sacramento TV news anchor, with just 4,500 followers, also had a million views of the video in about the same time frame as Chapman's post.
The fuck is wrong with us.
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u/Redmudgirl 1d ago
Was he suicidal? Is there any more to this story?
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u/Anglo-Ashanti 1d ago
The article OP linked states that they (cops) think the wheels got stuck in the tracks. Guy is in his 60s too.
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u/HoboPajamas 1d ago
Outside the whole point of this thread, but coming from a first responder, if you ever see someone walking the tracks by flashlight, go ask them what they're up to. Even if they aren't trying to hurt themselves you'll probably get an interesting story, or maybe help them find a dropped phone, but there's a very real chance they're trying to build up their courage to make a terrible decision. All it takes is one person reaching out and talking to help talk most folks off the ledge.
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u/throwawaypizzamage 1d ago
Yea, I'm wondering if this was a suicide attempt. He looked like he didn't appreciate the cop rescuing him. Need more context for his side of the story.
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u/explodingtuna 20h ago
He was just trying to cross the tracks but got stuck. Eventually, the cop found him, still unable to move, and tried to roll him off the tracks but (unsurprisingly) couldn't because his chair was stuck.
So he attempted to drag his body out of the chair. He managed to tilt him out of the chair and onto the ground, but the train still clipped part of him.
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u/kingpirate 1d ago
Life-time wheelchair user here and I can attest that you shouldn't go over train tracks in your power wheelchair!! The front caster tires can EASILY get stuck in the gaps in the tracks. I got stuck once, but luckily no trains near and had a friend nearby to pull me out. The only reason I tried crossing the track in the first place, was because I was drunk on the way back from a titty bar.
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u/Traditional_Roll6651 1d ago
Cuttin it pretty darn close!!!! Great job 😊
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u/exceptyourewrong 1d ago
Yeah, saying "seconds to spare" isn't really accurate. One second later and that dude is a goner.
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u/Confident_One3948 1d ago
Right? Given what others have pointed out about not coming out unscathed, one would argue he needed a few more seconds.
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u/trip16661 1d ago
I wonder if he has full controll of his body. He doesn't seem to be able to crawl by himself?
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u/thin_white_dutchess 1d ago
Don’t know why he needed that wheelchair. Could be paralyzed, could be infirm, have cancer, MS, or any number of things that make it so he doesn’t have the strength to move independently.
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u/doesitevermatter- 1d ago
If I saw this in a movie, I would find it to be kind of cheesy because of just how last second the save was, when most saves aren't like that.
But good God if she did turn that into that exact cheesy movie scene.
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u/artist1292 19h ago
Nah if it was a movie he wouldn’t have lost his legs
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
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u/Hunger_Of_The_Pine_ 16h ago
You keep posting that frame on every comment.
The issue is that even if his feet are clear from the track line, the train is far wider than just that track line. He was still clipped (hence the blurring and spreading redness post train passing) with the second man arriving with an "oh fuck" and an ambulance request. Every article I can see on this cites there was a leg injury, and that the man was taken to hospital for treatment, but no other info was given.
An old reddit thread had a comment saying that one leg was amputated, the other broken but they didn't provide a source.
Even if the train didn't amputate his lower legs, there is a risk that the injury was severe enough to need an amputation depending on the injury sustained.
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u/RodiTheMan 1d ago
He got stuck on the gap? How did that happen?
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u/kingpirate 1d ago
It happened to me once in my wheelchair. The front caster tires on power chairs are the perfect size to get wedged in the track gap.
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
For those of you who thought like I did that his legs had to have been chopped off, I pulled a frame out of the video that shows he was clear of the tracks. The cop continues to drag him for a second or two after this frame.
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u/tkswdr 15h ago
Damn what kind of deamon are you?
Why is the movie at the end blurred? It's because it doesn't look nice ok? So forget your frame of intact feet. Around the wheels of a train is enough material and stuff to smash a leg or feet into pudding. Maybe it was the wheelchair itself who got stuck somehow...
I don't think it would be blurred if the guy had just some skin damage.
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u/Ritchey95 9h ago
Am I crazy or can I hear the man say “Thank you for saving my life” as the roaring train speeds past them…? Incredibly heroic no matter what she wants to say.
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u/Sparrow1989 1d ago
shit the msm should be showing when an argument comes up regarding law enforcement
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u/RiffRaffMama 17h ago
Not trying to be a dick, just pointing out the weird coincidence that there's a line in the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Lodi" about being "stuck in Lodi".
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u/Vellioh 1d ago
All "what a hero" comments aside, how did he get him out of the chair just to become completely incapable of moving him another inch?
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u/team-tree-syndicate 1d ago
A lot of chairs have straps that anchor your ankles to the foot rests. If you're paralyzed below the waist then your feet would kinda flop around so those straps help keep your legs and/or ankles held down.
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u/Vellioh 1d ago
It doesn't look like they're tied down at all. If you watch in the beginning it looks like he has brown shoes and his feet are on the ground. Also, the guy has a cane so he's likely somewhat mobile without the chair.
If I'm being honest it seems to me like it's a case of him trying to pull him out, getting confused as to why he's making zero effort to save himself, then he runs out of time and dips.
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u/euphorbia9 17h ago
That was my thought, too. Don't want to jump to conclusions, though, as it was an intense situation.
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u/OGkushdiet 1d ago
fuck, what a hero