Sådant som media borde visa mer

Sådant som gör att man kan bli tårögd. Som aldrig visas i vår media. Som sällan syns i tidningar. Som det sällan pratas om. Det som gör oss mänskliga.

[info]Please keep your comments clean in this topic, and remember that this isn't a story for morale or rights. This happened, today, in central Berlin. I thought better of this world.[/info]

Today, on my way to our office headquarters I was standing by the subway waiting for my train to arrive. As usual I was listening to music from my phone and reading up on the latest news from my line of business on the way to work. I normally get pretty zoned out, and can be hard to snap out of my music and reading at times.

This time I felt uneasy though, that kind of feeling you get when something isn't right. I couldn't tell what it was, but something was definitely off. Then I realized that people were standing around in two distinct group. One group was observing something, clearly trying to get a glimpse of whatever was behind them. The other group was the typical "I didn't see anything since I'm standing over here" kind of group.

It was so obvious, people were standing with their back towards the other group, suddenly very occupied. Being a former soldier and with extensive experience in private security I normally have a natural habbit of picking up details and abnormal variances. I started noticing more and more on the people around me that something was going on, even though most people was doing their best to act like nothing was happening.

Then I realized what it was. An old man was sitting on the track right by the end of the tunnel. On the platform there was at least 20 people watching. Four or five people were recording him with their phones. Nobody seemed to do anything. I'm kind of known among my friends to act first and think later. I just can't stand back and watch, ever.

I started walking towards them to see what had happened when I realized the train would be coming in in less than a minute. At this point I finally understood what was going on. That he wanted to die. I started yelling at the people that were closer to help get him out of there. A few turned around, but nobody responded. I could hear the train now. This means there was about 35 seconds until it was too late.

I dropped my bag and started running. Since I'm in physical rehab every step I took hurt like a knife into my leg, but not as much as it hurt my heart to see that nobody else was doing anything. I start yelling at the top of my lungs, and by now some people said "but the train is about to come in!"

"You're damn right it is!" I don't remember if I said it outloud or if I just thought it for myself, as I was already down on the track, pushing it as hard as I could towards him. I don't know if the tracks are electric or not in these kinds of trains, but if they were I was happy the old man hadn't known.

By the point I reached him a police officer had reached the group, and like me was yelling at people for being selfish idiots. I had already pulled him off the tracks into a service entrance doorway of the tunnel, as I wasn't sure if I could get him up to the platform myself. The police officer urged me to get him over, and I somehow managed to pick him up despite my leg hurting like I had been shot all over again.

As the officer lifted the man up on the platform again I got pulled up by two of the bystanders. 5-10 seconds later the train came in.

The fact that nobody did anything makes me sick to my stomach. This man was 82 years old, and wanted to commit suicide by getting hit by a subway train. Nobody did anything, at all. When I reached him he was crying, saying "Im sorry" over and over again, and telling me to leave him there and get off the tracks. Throughout this whole thing people were filming with their phones, watching, or just ignoring it and walking away.

I have never been so angry, and it was probably a good thing the police officer arrived when he did. I just might have punched the face in on some of the brats that were laughing and filming it. I now have three weeks added to my physical therapy, but I dont really care because the ends justified the means, and in the end, it was without any kind of doubt worth it.

This mans wife of 55 years had passed away, and he didn't see any reason to live anymore. He just wanted to join her. If I wouldn't have done anything, I doubt he would've been pulled out in time. There was no way the train could stop on time coming out of the tunnel.

So please, remember what makes us human. Stand up for each other. Show compassion, sympathy and care for one another. It's easy to say that nobody would care if you needed the help, but that's not true. I would. And if one person would, others would. I guess the U-Bahn is simply a bad place to look for sympathy. Maybe that's why he picked it.

Stay strong, and remember that you can do much more than you think when you have to.

#blogg

Jag tror att jag hittat en text skriven av en av personerna i videon. Det stämmer överens väldigt bra iallafall. Jag lägger till det i en info-box i posten.

Edit: Han som går ner via taket är en byggarbetare som står uppe till vänster i början av den videon.

Självklart finns det exempel på sådant i djurlivet.

Det var nog lite taskigt ordval, menade snarare medmänskliga. Tänk humane, istället för human.