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You are here: Home / Latin America / Brazil / I Helped Save A Man's Life…fine, lip…today

I Helped Save A Man's Life…fine, lip…today

August 21, 2019 by Jason B.

These extroidinary events only seem to take place when traveling as few things this interesting happen to me at home. We, the group of 2 Canadians, 1 French, and 1 Brazilian had just settled in after sprinting to catch the subway. As we were catching our breaths, the train began moving. Moments later, I saw a lot of commotion a few yards away with everyone pointing, turning away in horror, etc.

I had noticed that a woman had asked a man to watch her bags for a second while she got something. So when I saw train in chaos, I somehow believed that this women had got left off the train and everyone was trying to get the conductor to stop.

I was wrong. As the train doors closed, one man managed to catch his lip in the doors. Like most people, i panicked and felt that awful chill down by back as if i were watching a gory scene from a horror movie. It was frightening because there was little to do but watch and feel his agony.

Keep in mind this whole scene took place in about 30 seconds. But a few seconds later, i ran to the door with a few other men and we began work on prying the door open. I have to admit, I am pretty happy with my reaction as I did not stand there and watch like most people. I am patting myself on the back right now in case you cannot see from your computer.

It felt useless as it was a subway door and those only open or close automatically. I am guessing it was another 10 seconds that passed before he had enough and jerked his head to pull his lip out.

One would expect a severed lip or a bloody mess but he felt fine. The train erupted in laughter at the absurdity of what just happened. He came out of the incident perfectly fine, although a bit embarrassed as he exited the train the next stop.

Between watching a man almost jump off a building in Ecuador, being attacked by 2 men in Ecuador, watching a motorcyle crash the other day…I can go on and on. The point is, I see some strange and interesting things pretty often when traveling. And that is just one small reason why traveling can be so exciting!

I like to include pictures with my posts. This is the train station. It is as close as you will get to the event.

Filed Under: Brazil Tagged With: Brazil, central, rio de janeiro, saving lives, subte, subway, train

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