After saving a man who fell onto the subway tracks at New York's Penn Station on Monday, the hero Chad Lindsay, 33--an aspiring actor currently appearing "in an Off Broadway show called “Kasper Hauser,” in a role that requires him to repeatedly lift a character who cannot walk"--reluctantly stepped forward.
Mr. Lindsey said he sensed a train was approaching, because the platform was crowded. “I dropped my bag and jumped down there. I tried to wake him up,” he said. “He probably had a massive concussion at that point. I jumped down there and he just wouldn’t wake up, and he was bleeding all over the place.”
He looked back up at the people on the platform. “I yelled, ‘Contact the station agent and call the police!’ which I think is hilarious because I don’t think I ever said ‘station agent’ before in my life. What am I, on ‘24’?”
One observation that Lindsay told the reporter was that the platform is "higher than you think it is." I've read this in the past. I've always wanted to jump down there to see for myself. Maybe climbing out of the tracks can be part of a NYC residency requirement, kind of like the swim test at some schools.