Stirring rescue in New York subway station

I almost never read the New York Daily News, maybe twice a year. Yesterday I happened to pick it up and read an incredible story. A man in a New York City subway station had a seizure and fell off the platform onto the tracks. 50 year old Wesley Autrey jumped down to the tracks to help him. The man was still having the seizure and kept resisting and kicking at Autrey, making it impossible to pull him back up to the platform, and then the train entered the station. So Autrey forced the man into a depression between the tracks and lay on top of him as the train passed over them, coming within a couple of inches of hitting Autrey but leaving both men unharmed. Here’s the story.

Spencer Warren, with whom I co-wrote an article on the Chinese torture of dogs at FrontPage Magazine, writes:

Great story.

This man’s heroism is common among dogs. A few years ago a little boy’s pet dog covered him as he was being stung by a horde of bees. The boy survived, but the dog died from aborbing all the bee stings.

The same dogs, tens of thousands of whom were left to starve and die in New Orleans. The same dogs who are denigrated by humans, e.g. the expression “like a dog.” The same dogs who are regularly abused by humans. The same dogs who are butchered alive and bludgeoned to death by the millions every year in China and South Korea.

So this great man should be given the First Annual Dog Award for selfless heroism.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 04, 2007 11:59 PM | Send