{"id":2174,"date":"2007-03-06T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/forget_the_stench_plant_your_face_in_the_trench.html"},"modified":"2007-03-06T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:35:34","slug":"forget_the_sten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/forget_the_sten.html","title":{"rendered":"Forget The Stench, Plant Your Face In The Trench!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s happened not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/man_of_the_year.html\">once<\/a> but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/502947p-424235c.html\">twice<\/a>, the MTA should create a public service campaign to educate riders about how best to survive a fall from the subway platform:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Brooklyn man narrowly escaped death yesterday when he fell onto the subway tracks in midtown Manhattan but managed to scurry to safety as the train roared into the station.<\/p>\n<p>Scraped and bloody, his arms covered with dirt, Paul Torres, 46, was carried out of the 34th St. station about 10:40 a.m. by police officers and firefighters who pulled him from under the stopped train.<\/p>\n<p>Later, wearing a neck brace and awaiting further treatment in the Bellevue Hospital emergency room, a dazed Torres said it was &#8220;unbelievable&#8221; that he was even alive.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said he couldn&#8217;t recall how he fell off the southbound platform of the station and into the path of a No. 2 train, but he confirmed in one word how happy he was to be alive. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; he said, his head still bleeding from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>As in a thrilling subway rescue two months ago, Torres positioned his body between the tracks, allowing space for the train to pass overhead.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alternative slogan: &#8220;If You&#8217;ve Got A Small Enough Ass, Get Between Those Tracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s happened not once but twice, the MTA should create a public service campaign to educate riders about how best to survive a fall from the subway platform: A Brooklyn man narrowly escaped death yesterday when he fell onto the subway tracks in midtown Manhattan but managed to scurry to safety as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_service_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}