[Gmac]

http://news.yahoo.com/pushy-train-passen...17067.html

Quote:

TOKYO (AP) -- Dozens of Japanese train passengers pushed a 32-ton train carriage away from the platform to free a woman who had fallen into the 20-centimeter (eight-inch) gap between the train and platform during the busy morning rush hour Monday.

The act of heroism was captured by a newspaper photographer, whose photo of the rescue ran in the Yomiuri daily's evening edition.

A public announcement that a passenger was trapped prompted about 40 people to join train officials to push the carriage, whose suspension system allows it to lean to either side, according to the Yomiuri newspaper, Japan's largest daily.

The unnamed woman in her 30s was then pulled out uninjured to applause from onlookers at JR Minami-Urawa station, just north of Tokyo.

After just an eight-minute delay, the train went on its way.

[Beyond Borders]

Yep, shame on them....

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

WTF dude? That's just common courtesy. I see no reason that A) she didn't deserve help from all onlookers, and B) that they wouldn't have done that for a guy.

Quote:

After just an eight-minute delay, the train went on its way.

Ah, to live in Japan...

[WanderingSoul]

I was waiting for the punch line, something like "The crowd of mostly males who moved the train to save the poor girls new iPhone, which she had dropped while texting several men she describes as "just friends", accidentally pushed it over, killing a dozen men innocently standing on the other side of the tracks."

[funkyzeit]

Nothing wrong with that brah.

[JayD]

Is this a bait thread?

[Caligula]

thread, haha.

[Quintus Flaminius]

Even if this was your typical North American White Knighting(it isn't), Japanese chicks actually reward White Knights.

[MrXY]

The lack of diversity in that photo is disturbing....

[Gmac]

You guys have the worst sense of humor I've ever seen. The title was catchy (considering all the stupid "white knight" threads recently), the story/article/picture interesting.

[Beyond Borders]

(07-23-2013 11:01 AM)Gmac Wrote:  

You guys have the worst sense of humor I've ever seen. The title was catchy (considering all the stupid "white knight" threads recently), the story/article/picture interesting.

Man makes joke.

8 other men don't find it funny or get it. And no other lurkers post to say it was funny.

Conclusion: those guys have the worst sense of humor ever.

haha Okay, I'm just giving you a hard time now, Gmac. I sort of suspected you may have been kidding but was still a bit unsure. Maybe work on your punch lines a bit?

[Statsi]

40 people moved 32tons? Damn.

[MikeCF]

I got the joke and thought it was pretty obviously a good natured jab at the guys who, for example, laugh when women burn to death in a car fire.