Man Dies Trying to Save Dog (you will cry a bit)

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Casey and His Brother

#1 July 05, 2009, 10:01:00 pm

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http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/853798.html

Quote from: Train kills man trying to pull dog off tracks

TRAPPER CREEK -- A 42-year-old man was killed Saturday afternoon while trying to rescue a dog from a train track south of Trapper Creek. The man's family was still being notified so his identity was not immediately available.
He was reaching to pull a Labrador retriever to safety off the tracks when the passenger train struck him, according to Alaska Railroad spokesman Tim Thompson.

The dog was also killed.

Operators started braking when they saw the man and dog but a train cannot stopimmediately, Thompson said. Even a slow-moving train needs several hundred feet to come to rest, he said.

"There was no way they could have stopped in the amount of time they were given," he said.

The man was thrown from the tracks and died at the scene.
"The train crew did everything they've been trained to do, in standard order," Thompson said.

The accident happened at 2 p.m. about 10 miles south of Trapper Creek, near Montana Creek. Montana Creek is a popular fishing spot in the Mat-Su.

The train was fully loaded with passengers traveling from Denali to Whittier.

The train proceeded south after several hours.

This is pretty damn sad/tragic/etc. IMHO, but I am vaguely reminded of a scene from Joe Dirt.

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jamie

#2 July 05, 2009, 10:04:13 pm

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Was it even his dog?

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Shepperd

#3 July 05, 2009, 11:21:46 pm

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What I fail to imagine is not the guy's ridiculous heroic act, but his lack of reaction to jump off track

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Boulvae

#4 July 05, 2009, 11:25:29 pm

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From what I gather maybe he knew the train was coming and he tried to save it before the inevitable.

A tool is a tool regardless. I mean if you suck, you suck, and not even the most perfect tool could save you. And if your damn good then even with the worst tool ever conceived you could chug out some high quality shit.

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#5 July 06, 2009, 12:54:17 am

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i don't understand this at all, he was 'reaching' for the dog? i don't know, maybe the train tracks south of trapper creek are different to the ones here but it would take me approximately 2 seconds to pick a dog up and get out of the way (a train is what, 2 metres wide?). if the dog had it's paw stuck or something it would take me 5 seconds to pick the dog up depending on how much paw it had to leave behind.

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#6 July 06, 2009, 01:15:08 am

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maybe he was trying to tackle it out of the way or something

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The Winkler

#7 July 06, 2009, 01:45:06 am

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Maybe the dog was actually Sarah Palin?

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Farren

#8 July 06, 2009, 03:54:36 am

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alls I got to say is fuck that dog. I'd try to help a dog but if I can see a train coming at me within 100 ft or so fuck the dog fuck the dog sorry dog but fuck you

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#9 July 06, 2009, 04:45:22 am

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It's hard to watch you dog get hit by a train. Like, I imagine I wouldn't just stand back and let it go to Jesus. I'd struggle to free the thing until the last possible second, too, although trains that are slowing aren't going THAT FAST (still pretty fast but not like lightning) so I think I'd have the common sense to leap away before that final crunch.

The only thing I can imagine is the man was walking his dog along the tracks as the train approached and just before it reached them the dog jumped onto the tracks and the man after it, not thinking before trying to grab it back. Even if you get sideswiped by a train, you'll break all the bones in your body! They are heavy as shit. It's not like getting hit by a car. I mean, it seems pretty goofy to be walking a dog without a leash/with a long enough leash that it can jump onto the tracks this close to train tracks when you hear a train coming. If it's a passenger train it's not like they are disused railway tracks or something.

It's sad that he died, but people aren't joking around when they tell you that train tracks are dangerous!

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#10 July 06, 2009, 04:48:50 am

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yea that'd be hard as hell not to try to save the dog. like i have this mental picture of the guy seeing this dog stuck on the tracks and the train is coming and it just stares at him. stares into his soul.

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Zatham

#11 July 06, 2009, 04:49:57 am

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But it doesn't sound like it was his dog.

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#12 July 06, 2009, 07:28:28 am

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Its not a great idea to risk your life over a dog.
Dogs are great... But not dog is worth dying for...

Not a single dog...

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ThugTears666

#13 July 06, 2009, 08:05:03 am

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still its a good thing to do, id say he was a nice person

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Corfaisus

#14 July 06, 2009, 01:13:36 pm

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Honestly, I can't agree at all with the sacrifice he made for this dog. Being a human, your life is worth much more than an animal's.

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#15 July 06, 2009, 01:36:09 pm

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Most people wouldn't do to save another human. RIP, the nicest man on the planet.

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#16 July 06, 2009, 03:06:09 pm

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nice man real fuckin nice i come back to check out gw after like 3 days and THIS IS LIKE THE ONLY SHIT WEVE GOT

fuckin awesome dude

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#17 July 06, 2009, 03:41:00 pm

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Quote from: Jumbotron on July 06, 2009, 01:36:09 pm

Most people wouldn't do to save another human. RIP, the nicest man on the planet.

That is a very sad truth, unfortunately, but I do have to agree with the idea that, no matter how much you love/respect animals, your life is not worth the life of a dog. It's still tragic, though.

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xanque

#18 July 06, 2009, 03:56:56 pm

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I hate articles like this that are really vague and obviously don't tell the entire story.

What I hate more is when people make assumptions and judgments based on these articles.

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Ryan

#19 July 06, 2009, 03:58:30 pm

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RIP doktormartini

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ATARI

#20 July 06, 2009, 07:46:25 pm

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maybe it was a huge dog but even still you'd think that it wouldnt' take that long to get a dog off the tracks if you picked him up/pushed him so yeah, I'm kind of confused about the details of this story

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