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X_Digger

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21. Yeah, hard to tell what a person would do.

Reply to eugene jones (Reply #20)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 10:51 PM

Dec 2012

We like to think we'd have done better, having the advantage of cold reason in hindsight. But until you're in a similar situation? We'll really never know.

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Why help someone about to die when you can take a picture & make $5000 instead? NY Post's new low [View all] HiPointDem Dec 2012 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author eugene jones Dec 2012 #1

AGREED. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #2

Agree on #2, not sure on #1 edbermac Dec 2012 #4

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Point 1 will get you killed DollarBillHines Dec 2012 #6

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Problem is, you need some real leverage to pull someone up a vertical surface. DollarBillHines Dec 2012 #9

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Thanks DollarBillHines Dec 2012 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author eugene jones Dec 2012 #14

How much do you weigh and how much can you lift? X_Digger Dec 2012 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author eugene jones Dec 2012 #11

That's a lot of thought process in a short amount of time. X_Digger Dec 2012 #17

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Yeah, hard to tell what a person would do. X_Digger Dec 2012 #21

i know for a certainty: i wouldn't take a picture. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #28

oh my limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #3

It seems possible anyone trying to pull someone out would likely be pulled in Raine Dec 2012 #13

it seems possible they might have been able to pull him out & didn't have to take the picture, HiPointDem Dec 2012 #15

Thank you for not posting the picture... Agschmid Dec 2012 #16

You can blame Murdoch customerserviceguy Dec 2012 #18

NYC is the same city where not too long ago a man risked his own life to save someone HiPointDem Dec 2012 #19

He was regarded as a hero by a few customerserviceguy Dec 2012 #22

i remember it differently, at least as far as the news reports went. i don't remember HiPointDem Dec 2012 #25

Person of interest in custody in NYC subway death Go Vols Dec 2012 #23

Thankfully the Post didn't find that video of the man falling onto the third rail and NYC Liberal Dec 2012 #24

Who knows what we would in the situation with little time to figure what was best. But, as for the Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2012 #26

i *know* i wouldn't take a picture. i am 100% sure of that. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #27

If I were a photographer, I don't know. Maybe it's like a reflex? Then there's the selling it to the Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2012 #29

I wasn't there jollyreaper2112 Dec 2012 #30