"Last Kiss" spotted
Lee Ayrton
The UL: Railroad worker is caught in the coupling of a train. He's awake
and responsive, but the doctor who examines him reveals to the rescuers
that as soon as the coupling is released the man will bleed out and die.
The company brings his family to him to make their final good byes.
In this case, it wasn't being told as a conventional UL but rather as a
cultural knowledge reference point: "you know, it is like when you're
caught in the train coupling and they bring your family to see you,
because the train's got a schedule and it will have to move sometime..."
Richard Casady
wrote:
I have a book that gives the names, the date, and the place where the
guy got pinched between a NYC subway car and the platform. Guy died
instantly when they jacked the car away from the wall. They brought
him a phone to say goodby to his wife.
Casady
danny burstein
>I have a book that gives the names, the date, and the place where the
>guy got pinched between a NYC subway car and the platform. Guy died
>instantly when they jacked the car away from the wall. They brought
>him a phone to say goodby to his wife.
AFU alert! If this occurred more than 15 or so years ago,
prior to the advent of pocket sized and common, oh, and
reliable cellular phones/service, there's just about no
way they could have "brought him a phone". They'd have
had to run 250 feet or so of phone wire from the nearest
landline, probably more...
If more recently then it would only have been possible
in the elevated lines [a] as there's very little cellular
service underground. (Some stations have "leakage", so to
speak, from the nearby towers where the radio waves zig-zag
through the stair openings, etc.).
[a] in NYC the train lines are called "subways" even
when they're overhead. This is the opposite of Chicago,
where they're called "Els" (Elevated) even when underground...
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Richard Casady
<dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>there's just about no
>way they could have "brought him a phone". They'd have
>had to run 250 feet or so of phone wire from the nearest
>landline, probably more...
Ten minutes work. It doesn't take that long to unroll a coil of
cable. You need a phone and a boy scout knife.
Casady
danny burstein
You also need the cable at hand... and to know where the
telephone (or a cable "appearance") is, and... since
this is NYC... you need a unionized electrician, preferably
a NY Telephone (or Nynex, or Verizon) craft worker at hand.
Oh, and a carpenter and plasterer to secure the wire on
the wall, steel columns, stairway railing, or floor...
Not to mention the five "no shows" and another two "supervisors".
And the food cart...
Warren Oates
Richard Casady <richar...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have a book that gives the names, the date, and the place where the
> guy got pinched between a NYC subway car and the platform. Guy died
> instantly when they jacked the car away from the wall. They brought
> him a phone to say goodby to his wife.
There was an episode of "Homicide" (set in Baltimore) where they did
this one. Vincent Donofrio played the guy. It was pretty good teevee.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0604435/
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John Francis
Warren Oates <warren...@gmail.com> wrote:
>In article <bv1fi517jiablbj5a...@4ax.com>,
> Richard Casady <richar...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a book that gives the names, the date, and the place where the
>> guy got pinched between a NYC subway car and the platform. Guy died
>> instantly when they jacked the car away from the wall. They brought
>> him a phone to say goodby to his wife.
>
>There was an episode of "Homicide" (set in Baltimore) where they did
>this one. Vincent Donofrio played the guy. It was pretty good teevee.
>
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0604435/
It showed up in an episode of "Robot Chicken", too.