At Shinegawa station in Tokyo:
“He walked off the platform like he saw an invisible step,” said Brice, of Rogersville, Tenn. “He hit the rails and it sounded like something was broken.”
Caballero checked for the next train, then jumped to the tracks and hoisted the man up by his armpits.
He thought about getting the man to the platform, but wasn’t sure if it was possible. He then thought about getting the unconscious man through an underneath passage and to the other end of the tracks.
Meanwhile, Brice had joined Caballero on the tracks.
“Jumping down to the track, I didn’t think about it,” Brice said. “When I saw my friend drop, it was an instant reaction to follow. Once I got down there I saw Caballero, and my first thought was, ‘Where’s the train at?’ “
The Shinagawa station is one of the busiest in Japan, so they knew it wouldn’t be long.
It took some big cojones to jump down there to save that guy. That time of night, a green train comes along every 6 minutes. The whole story is here.
I’ve been to the Shinagawa station, and I was in no state of mind to rescue someone off the tracks, so good for these guys!
Yep, but it didn’t take GW Sailors long to blow the good will – per NHK this AM (02 Jan EST) a GW Sailor got picked up in Tokyo (not sure where) for beating up a JN. The Sailor is in Japanese custody. The more things change, the more they stay the same.