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The incredible, sad story behind this tragic photo of a man about to die on New York City subway tracks, from today’s New York Post: A Queens dad trying to protect fellow straphangers from a deranged man on a Times Square subway platform was hurled onto the tracks by the lunatic and fatally crushed by a train yesterday, cops and witnesses said. Ki Suk Han, 58, desperately tried to scramble back to the platform as onlookers screamed, shouted and frantically waved their hands and bags in a bid to get the downtown Q train to stop at around 12:30 p.m. Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator. “I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” said Abbasi, whose camera captured chilling shots of Suk’s tragic fight for his life. The train slowed, but a dazed and bruised Han still wound up hopelessly caught between it and the platform as it came to a halt. A shaken Abbasi said the train “crushed him like a rag doll.” …Abbasi recalled, “Out of the periphery of my eye, I just saw a body flying, flying through the air. “People started waving their hands, anything they could find. They were shouting to the man in the tracks, “Get out! Get out of there!’” Han barely missed the third rail, cops said, and looked stunned as he sat up in the track bed as the train approached before scrambling to his feet. At one point, Han stood in the tracks and looked directly at the oncoming train lights. “The most painful part was I could see him getting closer to the edge. He was getting so close,” Abbasi said. “And people were running toward him and the train. “As I was running toward the train, the man I believe pushed him ran the other way, and I heard him say, ‘Goddamn motherf—ker.’ “I didn’t think about [the perp] until after. In that moment, I just wanted to warn the train — to try and save a life.”
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The incredible, sad story behind this tragic photo of a man about to die on New York City subway tracks, from today’s New York Post:

A Queens dad trying to protect fellow straphangers from a deranged man on a Times Square subway platform was hurled onto the tracks by the lunatic and fatally crushed by a train yesterday, cops and witnesses said.

Ki Suk Han, 58, desperately tried to scramble back to the platform as onlookers screamed, shouted and frantically waved their hands and bags in a bid to get the downtown Q train to stop at around 12:30 p.m.

Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator.

“I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash,” said Abbasi, whose camera captured chilling shots of Suk’s tragic fight for his life. The train slowed, but a dazed and bruised Han still wound up hopelessly caught between it and the platform as it came to a halt. A shaken Abbasi said the train “crushed him like a rag doll.”

…Abbasi recalled, “Out of the periphery of my eye, I just saw a body flying, flying through the air. “People started waving their hands, anything they could find. They were shouting to the man in the tracks, “Get out! Get out of there!’”

Han barely missed the third rail, cops said, and looked stunned as he sat up in the track bed as the train approached before scrambling to his feet. At one point, Han stood in the tracks and looked directly at the oncoming train lights.

“The most painful part was I could see him getting closer to the edge. He was getting so close,” Abbasi said. “And people were running toward him and the train.

“As I was running toward the train, the man I believe pushed him ran the other way, and I heard him say, ‘Goddamn motherf—ker.’ “I didn’t think about [the perp] until after. In that moment, I just wanted to warn the train — to try and save a life.”

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    not random rambling, interesting psychology chat.
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    That’s how the news works. Anything dealing with death is going to grab the attention of a great number of people. Many...
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    I can’t believe I’m reblogging the new york post… but may this man rest in power AND FUCK EVERYONE WHO COULDNT HAVE...
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    PEOPLE ARE SUCH ANIMALS FUCK THE STUPID MOTHERFUCKER THAT PUSHED THIS GUY ONTO THE TRACKS.
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