Boston transit police officer snatches suicidal man as he teeters on edge of subway platform
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A Boston transit police officer is credited with saving the life of a suicidal man by grabbing his arm and pulling him to safety just as he was about to teeter from a subway station platform onto the tracks.
Detective Sean Conway says he saw the man, drinking from a bottle and yelling incoherently, at the platform's edge at the Park Street Station at about 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Conway ran up one set of stairs and down another before snatching the man to safety and holding him down.
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The next train was several minutes from the station, but the bigger danger was the 600-volt third rail.
Conway tells The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1uJlnVG ) the man thanked him before being taken to the hospital. His name was not released.
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Online:
MBTA video: http://www.tpdnews411.com/2014/05/transit-police-detectives-quick-action.html