See how good normal people can be when they don't want to be late for work?
Commuters in Perth, Australia took time out of their busy schedules to save a man who was interrupting their busy schedules. At around 8:05am local time, a man was getting onto the Transperth train at the tail end of rush hour when his leg slipped through the gap between the train and the platform.
RT @nicolastaylornz: Mind the Gap !!, Stirling Station this am #perthnews#wanews@thewest_com_aupic.twitter.com/p0uKvltadf
— Nicolas Taylor (@nicolastaylornz) August 6, 2014
Fellow passengers alerted the conductors not to leave the station, and transportation workers eventually got all the passengers off of the train and directed them to push the train until the man could free himself.
Said Transperth spokesman David Hynes.
Our staff who were there at the time got the passengers, and there were lots of them, off the train, and organised them to sort of rock, tilt the train backwards away from the platform so they were able to get him out and rescue him....Everyone sort of pitched in. It was people power that saved someone from possibly quite serious injury.
The man was taken to a hospital but was not considered to be injured.
(by Johnny McNulty)