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Firefighters have to bust open a wall at Back Bay station to rescue man who'd somehow gotten wedged behind it
By adamg on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 4:05pm
The Boston Fire Department reports "a man fell between the walls" at the commuter-rail part of Back Bay this afternoon and that companies had to bust open the walls to get him out. The department did not say how the man managed to fall in that exact location.
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Know we know what they mean by
balls to the wall.
Looking for Platform 9 3/4?
n/t
So far
that is the only logical explanation I can come up with.
The Cask of Back Bay Station
Edgar Allen Poe couldn't imagine the horror stories that happen on the MBTA. Did they ever solve the mysterious death of the young woman who was found dead in the rafters at Back Bay station?
Ever any investigation
... by supernatural investigators say... with a cable TV show go down here?
H. P. Lovecraft's image of ultimate horror
was being chased by a Red Line train.
("At The Mountains of Madness")
Not the only one
Pickman's Model also features eldritch horrors emerging from underground at Boylston. Lovecraft certainly knew something about the MBTA.
HOW?!?!
n/t
Worcester Line
The Worcester Line had delay alerts today and it looks like the wall they put up several years ago between the Turnpike and the track a number of years back (per Streetview, between 2007 and 2011); before that it was even louder waiting for a train at BBY. I didn't know it was hollow, though! Lord knows how someone would get into the middle of it, but where there's a will, there's a way.
That
is astonishing--as in almost something one might admire in an entirely different context.
Security issue?
Do the people who do these projects bother talking with people who might notice the issues?
Or do the people who require trash cans to be bomb proof even notice stuff like this?
i don't understand why firemen are always dressed for a fire.
why are they always dressed like this when there is no fire?
It's got to be crazy hot, hard to work with that giant overcoat on. There was no fire, or risk of a fire. Couldn't they have left that stuff in the truck, it impedes movement and delays their response.
Looking at stuff like this makes me think that they aren't thinking at all but just going through the motions to be seen doing something when they are in fact doing very very little
It's not just to look sexy.
It's not just to look sexy. They can get a call for a fire while fishing people out of walls, and they'll have to go immediately. They're showing that their duty always extends beyond the immediate task at hand. Even when they are doing very little, they are doing their job, which is to be ready at a second's notice.
Youch!!
Glad they were able to get the guy out from between those walls.