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And how are you celebrating Weird Rescue Day?
By adamg on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 12:50pm
This morning, we had the construction worker saved by plastic sheeting. And now comes word, via Jerzy Eisenberg Guyot, of a slippery lunchtime rescue at the Downtown Crossing T stop:
Man trapped with suitcase in Downtown Crossing MBTA turnstile, turnstile experts are on the scene with lubricant.
A few minutes later:
Luckily the turnstile support team was able to save the man, although he's now drenched in oils.
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Use the wide gate
I'm always having to tell folks with big wheeled suitcases (or shopping carts, bicycles, etc) that there's a gate over there wide enough for you and your bag.
I thought by "turnstile" they
I thought by "turnstile" they meant one of those big black cage-looking revolving door-esque station exits, rather than the fare collection door-panel thingies that swoop out of the way.
I do hope you can understand my extensive use of technical language :)
I'd forgotten about those
though I've always heard them called 'Iron Maidens'.
Well, that's a pretty apt
Well, that's a pretty apt description. I'll use that next time I talk about them!
He needed lubricant?
Funny, that's how most people feel when they use the MBTA.
They should have asked this guy:
http://www.universalhub.com/2013/police-green-line-rider-investigated-phone-thief-t
But seriously folks....
Now I know what practical use there is for the 55-gallon drum of water-based personal lube I once saw on Amazon.
(Won't paste the link because it's possibly NSFW but you can find it easily enough.)
And it apparently didn't occur to anyone
to shut the power to the faregate off. Then it would have opened (that is the default mode for the new faregates in case of power failure).
Probably not a fare gate
See replies to my earlier comment above.