A Man About to Die on the New York Post Cover Today

[KTrain]

Today, the New York Post cover is a photo of a man a second before he was struck and killed by a subway train.

Here's the intro to the story for a bit of context:

A Queens dad trying to protect fellow straphangers from a deranged man on a Times Square subway platform was hurled onto the tracks by the lunatic and fatally crushed by a train yesterday, cops and witnesses said.

Ki Suk Han, 58, desperately tried to scramble back to the platform as onlookers screamed, shouted and frantically waved their hands and bags in a bid to get the downtown Q train to stop at around 12:30 p.m.

The attacker, who had been menacing others in the station, looms over his victim after pushing him on the tracks.

Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator.

While the photo isn't graphic, do you think it's appropriate for the photo to be on the cover? No chance for the audience to look away. I think it's obvious they're going for shock value to sell papers (which is hard as hell to do these days).

I also question the photographer using his flash to warn the operator of the train. Pretty sure frantically waving your hands would be more effective from that angle.

Here's the cover:

NSFW!

[bluck]

Why not run to the other side of the tracks?

[Daradon]

If the photo isn't tasteless the caption sure is.

But the Post has always been like Sun media.

[Hockeyguy15]

So much for compassion. Seriously how did the person in charge think this was a good idea, I really hope his family doesn't see it.

[gargamel]

I find the text more distasteful than the photo, but nothing is beneath the New York Post.

[Hockeyguy15]

Originally Posted by bluck

Why not run to the other side of the tracks?

Under the text it looks like something is there, another train maybe.

[polak]

Do they not have a cut away under the platform like they do here?

I'm sure he wasn't think straight at that time anyway.

Scary stuff.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Yeah Sun Media has a ways to go before its even in NewsCorps league. Wouldn't be surprised if the Post also paid the crazy guy to push the dead man on the tracks. A truly disgraceful company and that rag in particular is the bottom on the barrel.

[Northendzone]

Yuck....

[valo403]

Originally Posted by bluck

Why not run to the other side of the tracks?

Well for one thing the electrified third rail is there, touch that and you're done. I'm not really familiar with this station, but it looks like there's also another train in the station, and between that there are a series of beams with a smallish wall in most stations. He also probably went for the most obvious escape, which is back where he came from.

Absolutely sickening display from the Post, but par for the course.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by KTrain

Today, the New York Post cover is a photo of a man a second before he was struck and killed by a subway train.

Here's the intro to the story for a bit of context:



While the photo isn't graphic, do you think it's appropriate for the photo to be on the cover? No chance for the audience to look away. I think it's obvious they're going for shock value to sell papers (which is hard as hell to do these days).

I also question the photographer using his flash to warn the operator of the train. Pretty sure frantically waving your hands would be more effective from that angle.

Here's the cover:

NSFW!

At a train in a tunnel? A person waving their hands is barely going to visible to the driver until he gets far too close to stop, a flash will be visible far into the tunnel, although unfortunately it still wasn't enough.

[Ozy_Flame]

What happened to the lunatic?

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

What happened to the lunatic?

Still looking for him, there's surveillance video of him entering the station and a video of him arguing with the deceased shortly before he pushed him on the tracks.

As much of a freak thing this is, and even though I have a better chance of being killed by hundreds of other things, I definitely stood back an extra step on the platform this morning.

[GirlySports]

The Post is what it is, a moral-less money maknig enterprise.

The more important question here is, if you were the photographer taking pictures and flashing to warn the driver.. would you have sold your picture to the Post?

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by valo403

Still looking for him, there's surveillance video of him entering the station and a video of him arguing with the deceased shortly before he pushed him on the tracks.

As much of a freak thing this is, and even though I have a better chance of being killed by hundreds of other things, I definitely stood back an extra step on the platform this morning.

Well yeah, something similar to this happened in Calgary 2 years ago or so didn't. Some woman pushed a guy in front of a train I think.

[Coys1882]

How did someone take a photo of him in that spot and there is no one around trying to pull him out of the way??

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

How did someone take a photo of him in that spot and there is no one around trying to pull him out of the way??

You can't see him in the photo, but the article says that the lunatic was looming over the guy. People were probably afraid to help out of fear that they'd be pushed onto the tracks too.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

The Post is what it is, a moral-less money maknig enterprise.

The more important question here is, if you were the photographer taking pictures and flashing to warn the driver.. would you have sold your picture to the Post?

Apparently he was a freelancer on an assignment for the Post. I don't know how that works when something happens outside of the scope of that assignment, but I imagine the Post pressed for the pictures pretty aggressively.

[Byrns]

And still people why bystanders don't intervene when they see a crime occurring in front of them. This poor guy had to die for being a good Samaritan.

Had someone called the cops instead, he would still be alive.

[Flabbibulin]

Trying to warn him with the flash??? I wonder if the flash distracted the conductor from paying attention to the tracks... or possibly impaired his vision.

Either way, the subway trains in cities like New York and London come into the station at a crazy speed. My guess is this would have happened very fast.

Lunatic is still on the loose apparently.