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Guide dog dragged from SkyTrain suffered 'serious injuries' Quote:
http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/worl...881/story.html So sad ='[ hope it recovers quickly |
surprised the safety features didnt react; a strap stuck in the doors should be serious enough to affect them |
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Wow. that's totally brutal. My backpack straps always get stuck between the doors without knowing it. I had to wait for the next stop that opens the same door so i can finally sit down. I tried to pull it out, didn't work. |
Right after they ran the story on the evening news, Robin Stickley noted that the dog was now up and walking around... she'll still need reconstructive surgery on her nose to be able to eat properly again, but it's amazing she's still alive. |
even when the train is running you can force the doors to open (the gap whould be like a few inches). I try that before and is very easy to do. |
Dog is very strong when it comes survivability. It also recovers very quick. |
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^ more often than not ppl are like deer in the headlights when somethings happening. they just stand there and watch. it's called the "bystander effect" Quote:
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^I have never seen a emergency stop button.... |
Ya, there's a yellow silent alarm strip... But I dunno if there's an E stop button Posted via RS Mobile |
The emergency button doesn't actually stop the train, the yellow strip sends a silent signal to Translink secuity where the red button telecom is used to talk to translink security |
that's brutal |
Luckily the dog was just injured and not killed Hope it's nose recovers quickly Posted via RS Mobile |
just heard about this on the news...man wasn't there any people on the skytrain to help? the world we live in today....sigh*.... |
Other than hitting an emergency stop (which some say there isn't one), what else COULD anyone do? |
i just teared up a little! hope the dog is not that hurt after the recovery.. so sad.. |
They did a poll on 1130 about whether TransLink should cover the $15000 vet for the dog. Translink said they wouldn't pay but would implement better safety, should something like this happen again (who knows what that would cost). My first though was, this kind of thing is a freak accident and the owner probably should've had better control of the dog. I don't think there was any negligence on TransLink's end and they shouldn't be held legally responsible BUT since they have such a shitty reputation, they should just pay the vet bill to gain a little public favour. |
^ the owner is blind.. what kind of control could she have had? |
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But ya, I agree that translink shouldn't be held legally responsible for the incident. |
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They should put in emergency stop buttons like on the Canada Line, no? |
translinks safety apparatus failed... its not like the dog was unleashed and walked out of the train... the leash is connected to her hand and it was stuck inbetween the doors.... the doors shouldn't have closed and the train shouldn't have moved if the safety implementations were working properly translink is at fault.. they're trying to play it off as a "oh its just a dumb dog doing something stupid" but that's not the case. when i took the skytrain as a kid there's a yellow strip that you press that stops the train no? did they remove that? |
I dont think there is anything they can do about this.. Think of how small the strap is... The rubber will just form around it. I dont think Translink should be held responsible. But what could work out in their favor is to call up a couple of their advertisers and get each of them to cut a cheque for $7500. Then do a press release and straight up say they felt so bad about the whole situation that they worked with *insert company name here* and *insert company name here* to cover the cost of the vet bill. When it comes down to it this is just a freak accident that nobody could have ever seen coming. |
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