Tuesday, July 9, 2013

This guy. Like a boss. Swam from the Richmond Hill GO train last night


Photo by Veronica Chiu via Inside Toronto

Lots of folks tweeted about him. He apparently used his laptop bag as a paddle board. He was sick of waiting to be rescued.

Swim, Forrest! Swim!

6 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 9, 2013 at 6:15 PM

    Now that's what you call thiscrazypassenger! But, its sad how response rescue took so long.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 10, 2013 at 7:08 AM

    Yeah, swimming through a swollen rushing river of sewage is much less dangerous than waiting on a stopped train.

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  3. C.J. SmithJuly 10, 2013 at 9:20 AM

    Not my cup of tea.

    The sense of entitlement that I've been reading from many GO commuters is making my head spin.

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  4. UnknownJuly 10, 2013 at 9:35 AM

    Is this the guy that got stuck in the tree and had to be rescued anyways? I saw that rescue on the news.

    He could have stayed on the train and waited for the dinghy -- and instead decided to try and swim, got stuck in a tree and got rescued by the dinghy after hanging out in the water...uh, yeah, smart choice.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 11, 2013 at 11:02 AM

    Cindy,

    The dinghy never came for most of us. we walked off the train on foot after the water went down. had the water not went down so quickly after 11pm, we would probably still be stuck in the train, waiting for the dinghy to rescue people 4 at a time.

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  6. C.J. SmithJuly 11, 2013 at 11:07 AM

    I noticed this was a factoid the media and GO transit left out of their reports.

    Instead, the great rescue during the GO Flood of 2013 was levitated to a Titanic-esque type of rescue complete with a Carpathia moment of heroics.

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