What a close shave with death !!!

Posted by Jayasankar Madhavadas on 2010 Mar 17 14:40:37 +0000

To see such close shaves, please come to Belur near Howrah.

Posted by Onkar on 2010 Mar 17 15:00:18 +0000

Beautiful shot and lucky guy too !!!!

Posted by Raj Bhavsar on 2010 Mar 17 16:47:18 +0000

Look at the large crowd staring at the cycle guy. I bet half of them would be eager to see the cyclist being knocked down by the train.

Posted by Karan Desai on 2010 Mar 17 20:40:55 +0000

a suicide attempt??perhaps...but am wondering how the train didnt knocked the person...seems its in high speed and the chances of escape a narrow one comparing the position of the subject and the train...

Posted by Deepak Murali on 2010 Mar 18 01:38:59 +0000

The only way he could have survived, is by pulling back. Lucky guy!

Posted by Harish Kumar on 2010 Mar 18 04:10:10 +0000

Nice catch!

Posted by Manish on 2010 Mar 18 12:43:30 +0000

Isn't he scared of such a big beast approaching at high speed. If he would challenge the WDP4/WDG4, the HT horns would have shaken him off and would be run over. I have seen a similar death at the Lc gate of Vikhroli.

Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2010 Mar 18 13:04:57 +0000

I was at the time there when the photo was shot. In fact most of the trains passing had same scenes. The locals look to be quite expert in this, but Poorva was a bit fast for them to take risk.

Posted by Samar on 2010 Mar 18 15:51:11 +0000

@@Karan: why do you think that half of them would be eager to that guy getting knocked off? What pleasure would they get by passing judgment on his folly? I cant see the logic behind enjoying such an accident.....
anyway the camera would have fallen off my hands if i were shooting this picture...

Posted by Milind on 2010 Mar 19 06:29:09 +0000

@Milind: Just general observation. Having travelled on Mumbai locals daily for years I have seen many runovers and for some reason unfathomable to me, there are always people who stand and stare at the "victim" (and NOT shout/alert him) as the entire drama unfolds, some even move closer to "scene of action" to get a better view. I myself have never been able to withstand the gory sight.

Posted by Karan Desai on 2010 Mar 19 12:14:46 +0000

@Karan, my observation is that people do not tend to 'shout' at the victim possibly because of 2 reasons.. 1) Even they are too numb to react 2)The shouting may confuse the victim much more and the fear may make him rooted to the spot

and not because of the perverse pleasure of seeing people knocked down.. (Of course there are some but they are far and few)

Posted by Vivek Pillay (Oldman) on 2010 Mar 20 04:23:54 +0000