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Meet the Big Apples newest hero.
Good Samaritan Joshua Garcia saved the life of a 16-year-old teenage girl who fainted on a crowded Union Square subway platform during rush hour Wednesday, plunging head first onto the tracks just a minute before a train pulled into the station, DNAinfo New York has learned.
Garcia, an Aramark food service employee at New York University, was standing with his manager, Lourdes Munoz, and hundreds of other straphangers Wednesday about 6:45 p.m.
The coworkers were chatting as they waited for an uptown train to the Bronx when Garcia saw Stephanie Xue begin to sway near the platform edge about 50 feet in front of him.
She was leaning over the platform like she was woozy from medication, and then I saw her fall and I was like, Oh s---!, Garcia told On The Inside.
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140509/union-square/humble-hero-saves-teen-who-fell-onto-subway-tracks
For a moment, he found himself looking up from the tracks at scores of faces watching them. Some people were snapping photos or taking video with their cellphones, he said.
It was amazing seeing all these people doing nothing, he said. It was an eye-opener.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)It was an eye-opener.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)"Doing Nothing."
Makes for a remarkably sad epitaph, too.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)What is our response to global warming? Doing nothing.
What is our response to wealth and income inequality? Doing nothing.
What is our response to heinous financial crimes? Doing nothing.
What is our response to American leaders committing war crimes? Doing nothing.
What is our response to genocides in Africa? Doing nothing.
What is our response to threats to oil companies profits? Oh, hell, we'll go to war for that.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)Consumer 2: "I don't know and I don't care."