Retired Marine Hero

[Madeline]

ARLINGTON, Va. - Being a hero almost came at a cost for one good Samaritan in late August.

Surveillance video at the Virginia Square-GMU station in Arlington shows an ill man falling onto the Metro tracks.

Retired Marine Dimas Pinzon, the man on the other side of the track in the blue shirt, jumped down to the track to help.

He stepped on a cover board that barely kept him off the electrified rails. He may have saved the victim's life, but Metro warns that no one should ever jump down onto the tracks because of electrified rail.

Metro says that if someone falls, people should tell the station manager, who will stop trains and shut off the power.

VIDEO: Man Jumps Onto Metro Track To Save Another Person

Once a Marine always a Marine, eh?

 

[bodecea]

ARLINGTON, Va. - Being a hero almost came at a cost for one good Samaritan in late August.

Surveillance video at the Virginia Square-GMU station in Arlington shows an ill man falling onto the Metro tracks.

Retired Marine Dimas Pinzon, the man on the other side of the track in the blue shirt, jumped down to the track to help.

He stepped on a cover board that barely kept him off the electrified rails. He may have saved the victim's life, but Metro warns that no one should ever jump down onto the tracks because of electrified rail.

Metro says that if someone falls, people should tell the station manager, who will stop trains and shut off the power.

VIDEO: Man Jumps Onto Metro Track To Save Another Person

Once a Marine always a Marine, eh?

It may seem odd to some but those of us in or from the military would automatically go into "save the person" mode. I guess it becomes instinctual.

 

[topspin]

All bullshit aside, that's how people like USgunny and conhog and the other vets here are. They don't even consider risk, they develop the instinct to do the right thing.

 

[Si modo]

August?

Current events?



Go figure.

 

[Madeline]

Thankies again for your service to my country, bodecea.

 

[Madeline]

August?

Current events?

Go figure.

Just hit the news today, Si. Dunno why there was a lag.

Still a great feel-good story.

 

[Si modo]

August?

Current events?

Go figure.

Just hit the news today, Si. Dunno why there was a lag.

Still a great feel-good story.

Huh, I heard about it back in August.

But, yes, it is a feel good story.

 

[Two Thumbs]

ARLINGTON, Va. - Being a hero almost came at a cost for one good Samaritan in late August.

Surveillance video at the Virginia Square-GMU station in Arlington shows an ill man falling onto the Metro tracks.

Retired Marine Dimas Pinzon, the man on the other side of the track in the blue shirt, jumped down to the track to help.

He stepped on a cover board that barely kept him off the electrified rails. He may have saved the victim's life, but Metro warns that no one should ever jump down onto the tracks because of electrified rail.

Metro says that if someone falls, people should tell the station manager, who will stop trains and shut off the power.

VIDEO: Man Jumps Onto Metro Track To Save Another Person

Once a Marine always a Marine, eh?

 

[bodecea]

Thankies again for your service to my country, bodecea.

Thankee.

 

[topspin]

I razz them hard here, and it's juvenille bs

they are all hero's, twice over for those that go into underpaid LEO jobs after military.

 

[Douger]

The Vietnamese thank you all for your "service" as well..........with a special hug for the great murkin company, Dupont.

 

[editec]

Nice work there, Citizen.

Not sure that having been formerly in uniform made any difference, of course, but still...well done!

 

[Valerie]

August?

Current events?

Go figure.

Just hit the news today, Si. Dunno why there was a lag.

Still a great feel-good story.

I saw it on the news last night too.