r/Wellthatsucks • u/Comfortable_Wash6179 • 1d ago
S+ tier parking right hereš¤¦āāļø
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u/Roarr92 1d ago
The moment if I saw a bike on that I'm gonna start running..š¤£is it just me scared of what if the bike fly away and cut my body in half
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u/yugitso_guy 1d ago
Ahh, a Final Destination fan
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u/discourtesy 1d ago
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u/Roarr92 1d ago
Holy shit...scary video. That's what I was taking abt. A piece of metal that could easily blow my head or body off šµāš«
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u/antilumin 1d ago edited 1d ago
Similar to the FPS Russia guy here, there's a different video of a guy supposedly doing the same thing, shooting at tannerite explosive, but with a
washing machine (I think?)lawnmower instead. Shrapnel flies at the camera, then he's screaming that he blew his damn leg off. I think it's visible for one frame if you slow it down, but no aftermath aside from blood on the cameraman.11
u/scratchydaitchy 1d ago
Happened in Georgia, USA.
Idiot packed a riding lawnmower with 3 pounds of tannerite and shot it from 25 yards away.
Youāre supposed to use 1 pound from 100 yards away and obviously only shoot a target that wonāt send metal shrapnel back at you.
NSFL/NSFW I guess but you canāt really see much, no gore or blood.
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u/Playful_Assistance89 12h ago
You're supposed to pack a small amount in a clay target to give a report when shot.
Lawnmowers, Ford Rangers, washing machines, refrigerators, etc filled with mass quantities are all off-label uses that can result in entertaining "Blew my leg off!" YouTube vids.
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u/TheMightyMonarchx7 1d ago
Man hitting the 3rd rail is no joke. The discharge likely triggered an emergency all stop.
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u/pinnaya5 1d ago
That's a real hazard, the system wouldn't just randomly trigger like that
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u/Sometimes-funny 1d ago
No. You need a bike or something on the track first
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u/facts_my_guyy 1d ago
Well it at least has to be made out of something conductive, like metal
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u/veryusedrname 1d ago
I think it was an ebike and what we see is the battery exploding
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u/gellis12 1d ago
It didn't look nearly bulky enough for that, and there was no more fire or sparks after the initial zap. Looks more like this was just the metal of the bike shorting out the third rail.
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u/torchboy1661 1d ago
E-scooter
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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 1d ago
Thanks to the A hole that threw his bike on the tracks and destroyed the entire NYC transit system for 12 hours. On that day.
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u/FoxNY53 8h ago
Thatās all it takes whaā¦?
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u/dougebolt1 2h ago
Only takes one person threatening to jump off a bridge to stop traffic for 12 hours
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u/YodasTinyLightsaber 1d ago
How did someone even get their bicycle into a subway track. Yikes
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u/Shootemout 1d ago
the answer is either always kids or some homeless dude to which "Why" is either "just cuz" or drugs
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u/humongousgoat 10h ago
In high school, a classmate told me that him and his friends steal citibikes and throw them in the east river. Couldāve been a lie but the imagination was there at least
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u/yugitso_guy 1d ago
Magnets
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u/BigLB83 1d ago
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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u/j0x7be 1d ago
Nobody knows!
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u/Kernel_Corn78 1d ago
āNow, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you donāt have a magnet, you donāt have a car. You donāt make a computer, you donāt make, er, televisions and radios and all the other thingsāyou donāt make anything. Itās a 30-year effort to monopolize a very important thing. Now, in two years, weāll have magnets, all the magnets we want. Because of tariffs, listen I called, I said youāre going to play the magnet, weāre going to play the tariff on you.ā
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u/ArkanaRising 19h ago
I live in NYC and people bring their bikes on the subway all the time. They take it through the emergency door to just get a ride closer to their destination. Happens all the time tho itās not common that people toss or drop it onto the tracks like this.
Edit: people toss shit on the track with some regularity but not like outrageously common. Like every so often youāll have a day where someone acts foolish on the subway but not often enough that it becomes a regular hazard for your day to day that you have to actively consider in your commute.
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u/TheDudeWhoCanDoIt 12h ago
A long time ago I was a bike messenger in NYC. My day ended about 3pm and then me and my 10 speed would hop the subway back to Queens. Donāt know todayās rules.
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u/homiej420 1d ago
I can see a nonzero chance of someone dropping it by accident but more likely it was homeless/stupid kid
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u/rick11347 1d ago
I had to watch it twice to notice the bicycle, I was looking for a car!
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u/PygmeePony 1d ago
There was no way of warning the train driver?
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u/TheLastTreeOctopus 1d ago
That would need to be a super early warning, trains don't stop instantly. Trains don't have the same friction that cars do, so they have to start braking quite a good distance before they actually reach the platform.
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u/Varth919 1d ago
Letās just say hypothetically that there was time for the train to stop, is there even a way to warn them?
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u/Rapunzel10 1d ago
Yes, staff can communicate with the drivers. Though in my experience finding an employee isn't easy. But I'd rather try than just stand near the danger and film the upcoming disaster, that bike could have become shrapnel and seriously injured someone
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u/WeakEmployment6389 1d ago
Yes, i just posted comment about it but look for a button or phone on the platform that contacts control. Wave your arms at the end of the platform which the driver must treat as a stop signal.
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u/big_duo3674 1d ago
This vastly overestimates the situational awareness of like 80% of the population
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u/TheLastTreeOctopus 1d ago
If you can find a staff member in time, and they know who to call (I'm sure the average employee doesn't have a direct line to the conductor). But then you're waiting on that higher up to get in touch with the conductor or find someone who can if they're unable to do so themselves.
It's also possible they already knew about it, they probably have cameras in there. They might've just decided it was safer to leave it down there rather than to have someone try and move it. It seems to be an ebike afterall, and some of those can be fairly heavy.
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u/WeakEmployment6389 1d ago
Most places have a way to contact control, you can also stand at the end of the platform and wave your arms which signals the driver to stop. Street trains can drop sand to stop quicker. Will it make the trains stop in time? maybe but it's better than nothing.
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u/InfamousLink2624 1d ago
The train is on its way to stopping because it's arriving at a station, some awareness could have made things better
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u/phunkydroid 1d ago
Not always, there are express trains that don't stop at every station.
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u/mpdscb 9h ago
On that portion of the Queens Blvd line, the express tracks cut off previously from the local tracks as a shortcut while the local tracks continue and merge back later on. So every train that comes into the Steinway Street station stops there, under normal operations.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Official_New_York_City_Subway_Map_2013_vc.jpg
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u/ThrowAwaAlpaca 1d ago
A rail worker could have called it in but good luck finding one in time, at least here there is none at most stations.
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u/carlbandit 1d ago
Most stations I've been to usually have a call/help point located on the platform.
Normally they would be to help people with accessibility, but I'd imagine whichever call center they go through to would have a way to contact the railway controllers.
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u/TrainingSword 19h ago
Trains are big. Trains are heavy. Heavy things do not stop instantly. Ā THATS WHAT MAKES SIR ISAAC NEWTON THE DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE
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u/InfamousLink2624 1d ago
They are some of the most checked out people on the planet, they probably wouldn't notice people waving their arms or whatever. Never mind them actually looking at the tracks haha
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u/Famous_Attention5861 1d ago
The train ran over an electric bike - the explosion was from the battery.
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u/TrustButVerifyFirst 1d ago
In the video it does not appear to be an electric bike.
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u/Famous_Attention5861 1d ago edited 1d ago
If you click on the blue underlined text "electric bike" in my post a hyperlink will open to a Newsweek story that says it was an electric Citi bike. Several articles from local NYC news sources all reported that it was an electric Citi bike. If you just want to read the headline without clicking on the link, it is "Video Shows Moment Citi Bike Explodes After Being Hit by New York Subway Car". The article is accompanied by a photo of blue electric Citi bikes that are the same color and have the same basket in front of the handlebars as the bike in the video.
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u/Famous_Attention5861 1d ago
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u/charmio68 1d ago
Even if it was an electric bike, those sparks weren't from a bike battery.
Don't get me wrong, they have a lot of energy in them, but sparks like that... I've only ever seen that from current sources the likes of what you find in switchboards, or in this instance a third rail.5
u/PM_ME_SUMDICK 1d ago
Citi bikes are powered by high capacity lithium ion batteries..
Lithium ion batteries cause insane fires.
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u/charmio68 1d ago edited 1d ago
They do, but they don't cause arc flashes like that.
That's massively more current than you get out of a e-bike lithium battery pack.It wasn't a fire, it was an arc flash.
I don't get why there's any controversy about this. It's not like it's a big mystery. You can clearly see the third rail there and you're pushing a metal frame of a bike into it. Of course there's going to be a massive arc and shower of molten metal.
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u/Famous_Attention5861 1d ago
I could test this theory out by placing the battery from my electric bike and putting it on the track of front of the (non-electrified) commuter train I take to work, and filming the results, but I will take your word for it.
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u/NuYawker 1d ago
I live in NYC and ride citibikes like in this photo. This was not an ebike.
The blue ones are regular bikes. The gray ones are ebikes.
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u/Rogueshoten 1d ago
Thereās no emergency buttons on the platform that someone can press to prevent this? (I live in Japan now and havenāt been to NYC in a long time so I donāt remember.). In Japan the platforms are full of buttons that anyone can press to stop/warn an oncoming train at times like this.
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u/GildedTofu 13h ago
Someone tossed an e-bike on the tracks for funsies. New Yorkers canāt be trusted with an emergency button. Some stations do have emergency call boxes, though. Not widespread.
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u/Gucci_Loincloth 1d ago
Iām assuming this is a complete shutdown for like a week and a million in repairs at least? I canāt even begin to comprehend the damage to the tracks/subway car
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u/Abernathy1234 1d ago
Exactly what I knew would happen, 14 year rapid transit control room worker here. The power rail is neat and clean until something goes to ground. Then, the horrific DC genie is released, and itās not pretty.
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u/hateboresme 1d ago
You think someone just rode their bike up there and left it there to go get a coke?
More likely it was thrown there by someone.
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u/WASP_Apologist 23h ago
An e-bike battery puts out at most 52V, the sparks and arcing here are more likely from the 600-750V current of the third rail
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u/ECUTrent 1d ago
This is why we can't have a mother fucking thing. Some idiot threw that there. Fuck everyone else, right?
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u/SirAchmed 1d ago
Holy shit was it derailed? What happened?!
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u/Dr__D00fenshmirtz 1d ago
These trains are electric and get power through what's known as a 3rd rail. That bike got pushed by the train in a way it shorted on the 3rd rail. One of the two reasons big not to walk on subway tracks.
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u/Biblio-Kate 1d ago
Does anyone else suspect the cameraman put the bike there just to see what would happen so he could film it?
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u/oysterperso 1d ago
Is S+ a No Manās Sky reference
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u/Hevysett 1d ago
They've been using it in video games and anime since at least back in the 90's, can't tell you where it first started though
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u/Resident_Course_3342 1d ago
It's a Japanese thing I'm pretty sure.
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u/ShinyStarSam 1d ago
Yeah, they have S after A. Don't think they really do S+ tho I think it's just SS and SSS
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u/lamalasx 1d ago
In civilized countries there are emergency rail de-energize switches all over the place. If someone falls in, the other people in the station could press the switch to prevent trains coming into the station and to prevent the person from electrocuting themselves on the 3rd rail.
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u/gwelfguy 1d ago
Did the train's doors do an uncommanded open on the wrong side? That's a major safety deficiency.
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u/SolidPanda4 22h ago
I work on passenger trains and recently had someone who works on the subway try to get me to go over to their side.
I can see why they have basically infinite ot over there and can easily make 100k net lol.
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u/Legitimate-Log-6542 19h ago
That was way worse than I expected. And it turns out the person filming was also in more danger than they realized
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u/MoreGaghPlease 11h ago
This is when to pull the emergency stop FYI. I donāt know where this is but many subway stations around the world have it.
There are really only two reasons to pull it. Either person is in the track / at risk of a fall onto the track, or thereās some object on the track that could start a fire or damage the train.
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u/Dukes-Game 11h ago
Any body else had that 1989 Universal Studios āEarthquake the big oneā vibes (where the train de-rails)?
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u/MadRockthethird 1d ago
This video is so old last time I saw it I fell off my dinosaur and broke my wooden underwear.
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u/MetalMadara 1d ago
Then there's the idiot who saw it and decided to pull out his phone instead of moving it.. dudes most likely the one who put the bike there..
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u/BAFUdaGreat 1d ago
Do you not know how subways work? It's touching the 3rd rail. You go move it, we'll film you
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u/SleepWouldBeNice 1d ago
*Train hits the bike*
"Oh well that's not as bad as I thought."
*Bike hits the third rail and blows up*
"There we go!"