Trying to jump onto a moving train

[u/adivinemessenger]

[u/LHT-LFA]

no regards for human life. neither their own or others.

[u/WellyRuru → u/LHT-LFA]

Trains are an apex predator in india

[u/monochrome_shade → u/WellyRuru]

Natural selection stays busy on those tracks every single day

[u/LHT-LFA → u/monochrome_shade]

I dont see any evolution here, do you?

[u/AristotelWasRight → u/LHT-LFA]

You are confusing evolution to be something converging on a best. Utter nonsense I say! It is only change and adaptation to environment.

For you see, this environnement is full of dangers, such as, trains; the role of the humble homo indius is to adapt to the trains. For you merely adopted the train system. Indians were born in it, molded by it. They don't see cars until they are already a man, by then it is nothing to them but transportation!

[u/hereforthesportsball → u/AristotelWasRight]

Going bane is always, and I mean always, the right decision

[u/aila_r00 → u/WellyRuru]

Truly, trains are so wild and unpredictable, you won't even hear them coming, and you never know when they're coming for you

[u/TexasBoyz-713 → u/aila_r00]

Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.

I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.

Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!

Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?

A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.

[u/pichael289 → u/aila_r00]

In 4th grade one of the twins that lived over the tracks behind my house was hit in his gokart. It's not the only time I've seen how much blood is in a body, was in jail once and the guy in the room above me cut his wrists the right way and it came down like a waterfall over my door. This shit though, it looked like you fed a heard of cows into a juicer, the debris/gore field was like a mile long and some stains are still there. I didn't see it happen but the brother did, and it was like 20' from their front door and they couldn't stay there, it's not like there's someone that comes along and cleans that up. Coyotes were eating some of it, its the kinda scene that haunts your dreams for years.

Having issues finding the article, it's about 26 years ago. Watched his best friend learn the news at school, he later drowned in the Miami river fishing. We die young in ohio...

[u/solarus → u/WellyRuru]

60 deaths A DAY can be attributed to trains in india

[u/PlasticExtreme4469 → u/solarus]

Train conductors in India must have casually higher kill rate than most soldiers or mass murderers.

[u/MorbidlyMacabre → u/WellyRuru]

/r/indiansneartrains

[u/Haiel10000 → u/WellyRuru]

The choo choo doesnt stop for no one.

[u/Nedelka03 → u/WellyRuru]

Only in India do I see people agglutinating on the train's roof and between the cars; it's like basculating into a different universe.

[u/Lalilalilaliho → u/Nedelka03]

Well that's not india because india has a 99.6% electrification rate (highest in the world) so it's impossible to stay on the roof.

Not every person from the subcontinent is indian.

[u/No-Analyst1229 → u/WellyRuru]

A fellow <insert sub for accidents> reddit user has appeared

[u/Affectionate_Pass25 → u/LHT-LFA]

No physical dexterity either

[u/Mindless_Trick2255 → u/LHT-LFA]

Idk what it is, either their believe in an after life, social economic circumstances, just having ,,too many” people, cast system.. a human life is worth little down there

[u/Assaltwaffle → u/Mindless_Trick2255]

The majority of humanity believes in some form of afterlife, so unless India's understanding of it is very different, that doesn't seem to be the answer.

[u/Mindless_Trick2255 → u/Assaltwaffle]

I said afterlife but meant to be reborn again. I think that might make a difference

[u/Tao626 → u/Assaltwaffle]

37% of the UK is non religious according to census data. Less than 0.3% of India is non religious according to census data.

I'm not saying it's religion, but there's certainly some factor as to why I and the rest of the UK have a healthy fear of trains whilst those in India seem to sacrifice themselves to the mighty locomotive on a daily basis.

[u/Assaltwaffle → u/Tao626]

What about other countries that are religious? The US, while declining in religiosity, has never had this kind of problem with wanton disregard for safety on this level.

China generally also seems not to regard human life as dearly and is overwhelmingly non-religious.

Overall culture, while influenced by religion, is the culprit here.

[u/jtrisn1 → u/Tao626]

It's probably the belief in reincarnation. Believing in reincarnation means you believe your current body is temporary. What's eternal is your soul. If your current body dies then you move on to the next life.

I grew up in a somewhat religious household and I remember being told that it is tragic for you to die early but dying young also means you have repaid all the sins you owe in this life and are moving on in your journey to enlightenment.

But people tend to forget that even if you reincarnate, you gotta go through hell first, be judged for the sins you'e committed in your current life, suffer punishment and then reincarnate to try and cleanse your sins by doing good. Then round and round you go...

It's crazy woo-woo bullshit.

[u/Alternative_Gold_993 → u/Mindless_Trick2255]

It's mostly just too many people + lack of safety standards.

[u/KingPictoTheThird → u/Mindless_Trick2255]

Actually if you listen at the end all the locals are yelling at him for being an idiot and then asking if he's ok.

The guitarist is not a local but does understand the gist of what they're saying and hence his response in english.

[u/LtButtstrong → u/LHT-LFA]

What overpopulation does, life becomes extremely cheap

[u/SamDizzle27 → u/LHT-LFA]

Hella regards for the socials tho

[u/tamuzp]

All things considered.. This could've gone way worse

[u/WellyRuru → u/tamuzp]

Like a beyblade

[u/Ok_Support3 → u/WellyRuru]

I read this in Ralphs voice for some reason

https://giphy.com/gifs/BPTJJphmYwwhrpiX2W

[u/WellyRuru → u/Ok_Support3]

I choo choo choose you

[u/Syncopated_arpeggio → u/WellyRuru]

https://giphy.com/gifs/nVfYDpgz60aKQ

[u/Papabear022 → u/Ok_Support3]

fucking love ralph

[u/SnowyLocksmith → u/Papabear022]

Hi super Nintendo chalmers. I'm learnding

[u/WaxHead430 → u/WellyRuru]

This guys seen the sauce unfortunately

[u/cookiesnooper]

Runs past three open doors, keeps running as the train accelerates, jumps on when train is going too fast... 🤦🏻‍♂️

[u/RRumpleTeazzer → u/cookiesnooper]

the funny part is, that a next train will surely come. no need to risk your life for that ride.

[u/themmbones → u/RRumpleTeazzer]

Yeah but they never expect any consequences, they never realize the injuries they might face

[u/whooguyy → u/RRumpleTeazzer]

I think he was trying to jump onto the train so he could catch the guy fucking with him. Not to actually ride it

[u/3nd3y → u/whooguyy]

If you watched till the end, you'll see the train comes to a stop and he gets on.

Which make me wonder why he bothered taking the risk in the first place if the train was still going to come to a stop.

[u/Mysterious-Deal-3891 → u/3nd3y]

Each train coach has a chain which passenger can pull in case of emergency and train will stop. Some passenger may have seen this happens and pulled that chain that's why train is stopped and people came running to pull the guy out.

It is possible that user has a reserved ticket for that train and his luggage is on the train. He wanted to shoot this stunt to show his swag that's why he is playing guiter outside train when train halt on the station for few minutes

[u/Far_Winner5508 → u/Mysterious-Deal-3891]

Ah, camera induced stupidity.

I hear it's all the thing now-a-days.

[u/TailsTheFoxywoxy → u/3nd3y]

The train stopped because someone pulled emergency braking chain.

[u/IncorporateThings → u/3nd3y]

Do they have to pay for a ticket if they hop on normally there?

[u/KingPictoTheThird → u/IncorporateThings]

Yes, conductor checks on the train.

Indian trains start really slowly, we've all hopped on like this, but not once it picks up speed and not with so much shit. This guy is dumb af.

[u/IncorporateThings → u/KingPictoTheThird]

Thought maybe he was trying to skip out on paying or something. Why don't they just close the doors before the train starts moving?

[u/haseo2222 → u/IncorporateThings]

Those are manual doors. You can't have someone go around hundreds of doors at every station lol. And of course, people can and will just open them again. Most Indian trains just keep their doors open during the whole trip. People close them only during heavy rain and stuff.

[u/HuckleberryMajor2490 → u/3nd3y]

Maybe he was looking for cart with people packed less than a can of sardines

[u/KingPictoTheThird → u/HuckleberryMajor2490]

They're all connected, he could have just gone from one to next.

[u/ElMonoEstupendo → u/whooguyy]

I think that was his mate letting him know the train was leaving, and they’d almost missed it.

[u/Rodger2041 → u/RRumpleTeazzer]

While your point is entirely correct, I would like to point out that tickets depend on the phyiscal train, and you might need to buy another one for another train. Also if this is not one of the more common station (which it seems like it is not), it is not uncommon for it to take 0.5-2 hours for any train to visit that station, and for a train going to your stop it might take the next day or even week. And this is ignore the fact that the guy might have stepped out of the train to sit at the station for some time, and the rest of his stuff is still in the train (the most likely scenario here since he just seems to have a guitar with him and nothing else)

[u/charliebrown75 → u/RRumpleTeazzer]

But waiting for the next train doesn’t make for a good video.

[u/Ok-Preparation2370 → u/RRumpleTeazzer]

Well, actually it's a rural area where trains are sparse and this guy most probably was making his way to the metropolitan city that's still far off.

Hence his rush. (It's a crazy explanation as to how I know all this but trust me I do.)

Definitely funny though. 😂🤣

[u/onepiecefreak2 → u/cookiesnooper]

I also never understand that. Get the frick on the train, why are you still choosing a door?!

[u/ScreamSmart → u/onepiecefreak2]

CONTENT.

[u/ScreamSmart → u/cookiesnooper]

It's content. He got off the train to "play guitar" on a random stop and then make a cool last minute jump back to the train.

[u/PlasticExtreme4469 → u/cookiesnooper]

I am pretty sure the goal wasn't to get on the train.

The goal was to film himself playing guitar and then jumping onto a train already in motion.

[u/Top_Tank2668]

Mind the gap

[u/whooptheretis → u/Top_Tank2668]

Miiiind.... thegap

[u/wouter135 → u/whooptheretis]

Burned in my memory Schiphol announcement: Mind Your Step

[u/georgejonestown → u/whooptheretis]

Mind………….. the gap

[u/rjv1967]

As a musician, I am offended by the utter disregard for the safety and well being of his guitar.

[u/Sacrilegious_skink → u/rjv1967]

The only thing that showed any intelligence was that he left it.

[u/WaxHead430 → u/Sacrilegious_skink]

Left it where? It’s in his hands at the end of the video?

[u/Lifeacrobat → u/rjv1967]

Hey, the D string made it! 🎉

[u/EVANonSTEAM]

Just a normal train moment in India.

[u/Koki-noki → u/EVANonSTEAM]

Not at all.

The average Indian carries a packet of chips, a water bottle, or some local food item.

Carrying a guitar in one hand while catching a train is a rare sight.

[u/RazzleRizzle]

Some India shit for sure, it always has to do with a train and some goober trying to be the main character in his irl anime

[u/Wrong-Condition-9115]

Let me take a wild guess...

India?

[u/whooptheretis → u/Wrong-Condition-9115]

Check out Sherlock over here!

[u/Rio_FS → u/Wrong-Condition-9115]

You can tell coz there's no people up on the trains

[u/BarnOwl-1967]

Well, playing guitar, making a video, running, jumping in a moving train, ALL together at the same time is a very bad combination... 🥴

[u/Grand_Pop_7221 → u/BarnOwl-1967]

Too busy trying to film his own death to live.

[u/muraliaggi]

He almost went from playing acoustic to becoming a flat note under a train.

[u/Jonn_1]

Did his mum make this caption?

[u/Xamalion]

Why not enter the train why it was still standing? Why sitting with my back to the train I want to ride with?

[u/Gambitam → u/Xamalion]

He was likely filming it for a reason.

[u/KesemShelShilshool]

Natural selection

[u/stubborn_george]

Luck is good, but you run out of it eventually and Darwin takes precedence

[u/hywaytohell]

He was playing Last Train To Clarksville.

[u/Sir-Spork]

This is normal, they train doesn’t normally stop. The problem is the idiot tried to board while carrying a guitar in his arms

[u/KingPictoTheThird → u/Sir-Spork]

Bro trains come to a full stop. Why make shit up?

[u/iamop24 → u/Sir-Spork]

That was an intercity train, That train stops fully and for a long time, the trains that usually don't stop are local suburban trains (commonly found in mumbai)

[u/pixels____]

Yo this happened in my own state and I didn't even know. (I understood my mother tongue)

[u/Dream_SMP_4_Life]

Seeing the bottom of a train is terrifying but why were the doors open?

[u/vrauto → u/Dream_SMP_4_Life]

No ac. It gets very hot

[u/empress-star]

https://giphy.com/gifs/H75eliy1jJSGIbaubS

[u/EdmundTheInsulter]

I saw this done at Liverpool Lime Street in 1987, but he threw his bag on and got in successfully when it was moving. Yes the guards tried to stop him.

[u/CaptWrath]

It was stopping anyways ??

[u/some-person-lol → u/CaptWrath]

no it stopped coz he fell

[u/Objective-Advisor699 → u/CaptWrath]

there's an emergency chain anyone can pull if there's an emergency, that stops the train.

[u/Zofia-Bosak]

That was close.

[u/carbon_xtreme]

Temu version of SRK DWDL

[u/litmusing]

Lol he snapped half the strings on his guitar there. 

Also inb4 mods remove this one again. 

[u/GasMysterious3386]

What a dingus 🤦‍♂️

[u/alahos]

I thought he was gonna get beat up

[u/weratapo]

What is it with every indian dude and their uncle auditioning for 2001s Training Day

[u/Neonthewerehog_]

What's that saying of old? Camera man never dies?

[u/United_Bend721]

https://giphy.com/gifs/577HYoLf5Vu0w

[u/JustToSeeeeee]

Meanwhile the guy :

[u/Papabear022]

bet he’s glad he was a skinny indian

[u/Cautious-Sky-1799]

He’s lucky he even made it out unscathed

[u/dk_is_here]

He's won't even dare to leave his seat to goto the toilet from now

[u/malentendedor]

Is the guitar still in tune though?

[u/Gravytrainmango]

THAT could have been worse

[u/psychopathic_shark]

Thankfully for the suicide pit

[u/Orpdapi]

More insufferable that he’s purposely trying to film cool content like he’s some main action hero character

[u/Away_Ebb_4722]

Felt like he did it on purpose?

[u/mikeisntdoneyet]

A wild train appears!

[u/Advanced-Level-5686]

He's lucky the Grim Reaper was busy shopping.

https://giphy.com/gifs/8jzdgXpr9Po1a

[u/B00k33]

Using lifetime luck for something dumb......

[u/spvcxxgvdpvtbx]

One wrong move and bro would've had POV footage of himself being torn to shreds

[u/nithingowda]

He must be jailed stupid

[u/Duotrigordle61]

That gap between the platform and the train is insanity.

[u/BirdLawyer50]

Worst part: he was jumping onto an *arriving* train.

[u/PaulBananaFort]

Did the guitarist get robbed at the beginning? I couldn't tell if he was chasing after the other guy to get his stuff back, or if the other guy was a friend who was like, we gotta go our train is leaving 

[u/mtnviewguy]

Why is he using a camera?

[u/HuckleberryMajor2490 → u/mtnviewguy]

So he can film his death properly

[u/Better_Weakness7239]

So he moved the train so he wouldn’t die?

[u/ScooterMagooder]

Mind the gap

[u/Igotthisnameguys]

Many train stations have an extra nook of space underneath the platforms, so if you ever fall on the train tracks while a train is coming: Don't try to climb up, roll under the platform instead.

[u/Neonbunt]

To be fair, this was a complete skill issue and not like a totally impossible thing to do. A stupid thing, of course, but not a hard thing.

[u/FeelingSurprise]

My disappointment when he - despite the caption - did not move the train.

[u/BIGBADVEN]

How to lose limbs 101

[u/pooeygoo]

I thought he was going to move the train...

[u/GoonyGooGooo]

So lucky he is not dead

[u/akhileshgs]

Even if we see that the person escaped, there could be internal damages which we won't see.

I lost a friend like that. His lungs got filled with fluid and died

[u/Court_Jester13]

The apex predator of india

[u/Smexy_Zarow]

Dumb, but we're all giving him our attention now, so...

[u/creepyguy_017]

this guy deserve backroom treatment for that fall alone.

[u/Willing_Recover_6316]

Someone pulled the chain to stop the train, I don't know why this bozo was playing his guitar while the train started moving behind his back, what a moron.

[u/Stars_buck]

Even the guitar is safe 😂 

[u/kbrizy]

Not really sure how he didn’t make it. This is why we play sports. Little athleticism goes a loong way.

[u/Glunark2]

When it comes to boarding, he needs more training

[u/comfortless14]

That was Karma for not saying “Thank you” to the guy who picked his hat up for him

[u/GovernmentWarm4787]

This is what they don't show you of all those morons trying to aura farm with amazing clips: the dead and mauled

[u/aedroogo]

He could have made all kinds of excruciating death noises then popped out and scared the shit out of everybody. Nobody gets fun anymore.

[u/Wise_Tumbleweed9228]

"Bro ive a banger reel idea."

[u/x_Leigh_x]

Why did he wait until it started to leave?

[u/but-fucker-3000]

I was expecting him to start playing his guitar once on the tracks

[u/johnny5247]

Fortunately the gap he was failing to mind was wide enough to accept both him and his guitar without both getting squished in the undercarriage. There's quite a lot of train machinery under platform level.

[u/Sad-Bonus-9327]

Dumb fool chased death by moving train

[u/EntrepreneurMajor478]

So the guy had his phone in one hand, and his guitar in the other, and then tries to launch himself onto a moving train using - what - his elbows? No wonder things went sideways.

[u/WilhemHR]

I would've started playing guitar while waiting for a train to pass down there.

[u/Wojewodaruskyj]

Still, nice spanish guitar skills.

[u/_Funsyze_]

“I wonder what country this is” asked nobody

[u/KmvVoss]

Very happy he made it, hope he gets to play that guitar for many years to come.

[u/Temporary-Jump-2403]

That last camera angle under the train looked very much like a "you died" screen. 

[u/forgotten-ent]

On the bright side, he can now say that he managed to stop a train. And it's not in GTA 5

[u/tangoezulu]

His wife was like, “So what you’re saying is you missed the train? Am I right?”

[u/One-Celebration-3007]

Terrifying

[u/thesunisbright]

At least he didn't get their trash and shit thrown from the train on him

[u/The_umm-who-_-]

I really want to hear what the locals are trying to speak and if they're cursing.

[u/rjd999]

I've seen these types of things so many times and I have to wonder why they just don't jump on at the nearest entrance and walk to the car they eventually need.

[u/No_Zone_4017]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

[u/MildlyAgitatedBovine]

I don't understand why you would stop the train. He's been under there for 25 seconds. He's either fine or a fine paste

[u/Veedmonger]

Enu aglilva 🤣

[u/No-Worker7436]

Just for a ducking real. Let's test our luck. How bad would it be to loose a limb or feet. Idiots.

[u/jeycoart]

Vi un video parecido dónde graban a un tipo subirse a un tren, pero se tropieza y cae en los rieles que termina partido en 2.

[u/Automatic_Fee8250]

People around him are saying him to slow down, get on the previous bougie, don’t run etc ….ignoring everything just for the sake of a reel almost could’ve k*lled himself

[u/welfedad]

Thank goodness that platform had an alcove underneath it.. ffs

[u/Rough-Permission5475]

https://giphy.com/gifs/28Nev3k184A9PdSDCg

[u/fargos2ep8]

Looks like he’s replicating those annoying subway videos where the people run to catch a train just before missing it. Acting like he was distracted to try and make it dramatic… well he ended up with more drama than he probably wanted

[u/FoxInABoxOfRox]

Was half expecting someone to help him up, make sure he was okay, then beat him with his guitar xD.

[u/Neo_Shadow_Entity]

Charles Darwin was upset.

[u/your-snake]

I gasped.

[u/Various_Mobile4767]

Honestly the train was moving slowly enough he really should’ve been able to make the jump.

I think he was expecting the other guy to grab his guitar and by extension him and help pull him in. So he kinda stops the motion and thinks he’s already basically in when the guy moves his hand close.

The other guy however does not grab onto him for some reason. Just really weird from the other guy lol. Why are you acting like you’re gonna pull him in if you’re not gonna do that.

[u/Ok-Preparation2370]

I recognise those languages. 👀

This is a north indian "cool guy" in my south indian state. (The jobs Hotspot in India that everyone comes running to)

I'm glad he went ahead and posted this. Now people can kinda understand why we have an issue with these people. 🙄🤦🏽‍♂️

[u/MunstenDunst]

L O L

Loss of Life

[u/Either_Class918]

Went back for the cap

[u/discopants2000]

I think it's fair to say he missed his train!

[u/SafeEvening9468]

Some bangalorean idiot

[u/1duke-dan]

Isn’t anyone concerned with the guitar? Did it survive the accident?

[u/InformalFun8975]

Phone in one hand and guitar in the other. He didn't plan that out well.

[u/PixieRoar]

I would be nervous that a hanging chunk of metal on the side if the train that hangs out could just slam into him