You probably already heard already about Wesley Autrey, the Subway Superhero who saved someone having a seizure on the tracks of the 1 train.
NYT asks if you would have the courage to do it?
He was on David Letterman last night. There were two factors that were to his advantage – that he was a Navy veteran, which provided courage, and that he is a construction worker who is accustomed to working in confined spaces, which enabled him to estimate that he and the ill person would fit under the train. The two other reasons why he did it was that he didn’t want his two daughters to see someone being killed.
The 2 seconds getting run over by 5 subway cars was actually the relatively safe part – the dangerous part was when he had to restrain the other guy for 20 minutes while under the train until they could cut the power. Real heroes are the ones that never ever think that they would. His advice: if you have the chance to be a hero, go for it.
A 15 year old graffiti artist was not as lucky, getting run over by an LIRR train this evening. Two other members of his crew were at the scene. Unfortunately, there were no heroes there.