Would You Have the Balls?

[Bilal91]

New York lauds subway rescuer

NEW YORK - A man's daring rescue of a teen who fell on the subway tracks earned him the unique title ``the hero of Harlem'' on Thursday, plus $10,000 from Donald Trump and a trip to Disney World.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg bestowed the title upon Wesley Autrey as he presented him with the city's highest award for civic achievement, calling the 50-year-old construction worker ``a great man - a man who makes us all proud to be New Yorkers.''

Past recipients of the bronze medallion have included Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali and Willie Mays.

On Tuesday, Autrey saw Cameron Hollopeter, a 19-year-old film student, suffering a seizure while waiting for a train. After stumbling down the platform, Hollopeter, of Littleton, Mass., fell onto the tracks with a train approaching.

Autrey, traveling with his two young daughters, said something needed to be done and he thought: ``I'm the only one to do it.''

He jumped down to the tracks, a few feet below platform level, and rolled with the young man into a drainage trough between the rails as the train came into the 137th Street/City College station.

Train cars passed over Autrey and Hollopeter with only a couple of inches to spare, but neither man suffered any harm from the incident. Hollopeter, hospitalized for his medical condition, was in stable condition on Thursday.

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He jumped the platform to save the guy even with the train incoming...thats gotta take some real courage...he got some pretty nice reward for it too...

Would you have the balls to do something that risky for someone you didnt even know or have done something like that already?

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

That guy has grapefruites lol

It sounds bad and I know most people will say yeah I would do it, but in honest fact I wouldnt.

 

[manee]

No I would not...I sadly don't have the balls to do that. But it just goes to show there are selfless beings in the world who really are greater in character than the majority of the population.

The man deserved his reward well and hopes he uses it well.

 

[Adarsh]

Bah, I could easily do this...

 

[Bilal91]

oh yeah...lol...better said than done...

 

[Sureshot]

Great bloke, putting his own life at risk in a split second call.

A good heart, we need more people like him in the world, who do things great things like that without a second thought.

 

[Brett_Lee]

Yes he was a very brave guy for doing this. And it shows what a good heart can do.

And I wander what his kids were thinking when he did it?

Cant believe this thread was only posted today

 

[Simbazz]

I think everyone would like to say yes i would have the courage to do that, but when your faced with it, think about it, plus he had his daughters there, id even like to say yes, but without being in that situation i just dont know.

 

[IloveGilly]

These are the things that only a single wrong movement or a split second and everything could go terribly wrong.

He didn't really think that what he was doing, and not a real plan but heroic indeed.

Really, if no one had saved him... you would be scarred for life knowing what happened was right in front of you.

 

[embi]

I would have stood there trying to think what to do, and then it would be too late...

 

[rickyp]

short answer, no

 

[BigCrickNan]

I would if i knew there was a drain to fall into .

 

[F4rrukh]

I would if i knew there was a drain to fall into .

lol!


I wouldn't..

 

[Kev]

I really dont know what I would do. I dont think you can know something like that until for are faced with it. I'm pretty sure if you asked that guy a week before the same question he probably wouldn't be able to answer either.

 

[Simbazz]

I really dont know what I would do. I dont think you can know something like that until for are faced with it. I'm pretty sure if you asked that guy a week before the same question he probably wouldn't be able to answer either.

Hey, you just copied my answer but tarted it up