The mother and her baby.
Posted on 10/10/2009 7:19:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
Newborn Baby Falls Through Train Toilet Onto Tracks A baby delivered in a train lavatory has survived tumbling down through the bottom of the carriage and onto the tracks.
By Dean Nelson in New Delhi 08 Oct 2009
Passengers on the West Bengal Tata-Chapra Express raised the alarm when they saw Rinku Debi Ray, 28, jump from the speeding carriage in what they believed was a suicide attempt.
The train came to a halt more than a mile down the track, but when passengers ran back to help her, they discovered the new mother cradling her new baby in her arms.
Mrs Ray later explained she had been travelling to her parents home in Bihar, where she was planning to deliver her second child, with her husband Bhola and their four-year-old daughter, when she felt sharp pains in her abdomen.
She went into the lavatory hoping to relieve the pain, but instead suddenly gave birth. The baby fell into the lavatory bowl and through the flap onto the tracks under the speeding train, and her mother quickly ran out of the lavatory and jumped from the carriage to find the child.
Her husband, who pulled the emergency cord, and other passengers who saw her jump, said she injured herself in her leap, but managed to get up and start running back to where the child tumbled onto the track.
When the train came to a halt just over a mile down the line, Mr Roy and other passengers began searching for them. "We got off the train and started looking for my wife. After an hour we found Rinku sitting beside the track with the baby in her lap," said Bhola Roy, a 33 year old businessman from Rourkela, West Bengal.
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Holy (*%@%@!
Wow, that is a fast thinking and strong as heck mommy!
Couldn’t she just reel it back in by the umbilical cord? I really don’t get it.
When you think you’ve heard it all ...
Ridin’ on that New Delhi freight train...
I see a possible movie script...
Do you really think the umbilical cord is strong enough to stop a baby from falling through the floor? Or, that the placenta simply didn't follow the baby through?
Happy ending...baby survived!
God bless them both!
HOLY MOLEY! Glad the baby was all right.
It is kind of gross how you pee out onto the tracks in some of those trains.
Praise the Lord!!! Without any doubt, a true miracle of divine intervention indeed!
OMG! How horrible. Thank God the child wasn’t killed.
You know this means that all the human waste (that is poop for those of you in Rio Linda)goes out onto the train tracks all the time. What a disgusting place.
Same thing in Switzerland. For that matter, human waste is simply dumped overboard from aircraft as well.
Sucks to live in “fly-over country”...
So just seconds after giving birth she’s leaping from a moving train and running down the tracks. And you girls still expect us to believe child birth is tough and heroic thing that you do?
That's not so bad. It's mostly sterile anyway.
But solid waste disposal by leaving it along the tracks, now that is gross.
Still not as bad as doing it from an aircraft, as was once done.
Wasn't so very long ago it was done that way on US railways as well. IIRC, there were rules about where the lavatory could be used. In the city was not one of the places, IIRC.
I was on the Amtrak train in the mid 80’s, and they didn’t allow folks to use the facilities when they were in the station for that reason.
However, by 1999, when I was last on the Amtrak- that was no longer the case.
Not really. They don't allow use in the station. A passing train dropping a turd in the great outdoors is isn't much different than a passing dear doing so.
passing dear = passing deer
So just seconds after giving birth she’s leaping from a moving train and running down the tracks. And you girls still expect us to believe child birth is tough and heroic thing that you do?
Yes. It is no picnic but Momma’s are a pretty tough breed. Especially when it comes to our babies. :)
God bless her.
When I saw the headline, I thought it was going to be another sad story about a young girl aborting her baby in a public toilet.
Just the opposite, as it turns out. What a great story and a happy ending.
News like this always seems to not be in the USA.
Deer in general don't pass on human infectious agents.
But I agree, it's not all that gross. Perhaps I'm influenced by having grown up with, until 3rd grade, a Burlington main line about 0.7 of a block directly out of our front door, with the point of closest approach being only about 0.5 blocks (or 50 yards) from the driveway. I remember steam engines (oil fired of course) running down that line and shaking the shiite out of the house and my bed, which was on the track side of the house. That was until 3rd grade, when we moved to a house with the Rock Island main line where our alley should have been. The city effectively ended one lot "out" from ours, on our side of the tracks, with an Ag experiment station across the street. There was, and still is, a neighborhood on the otherside of the tracks which extended out a couple of more blocks. Today there is a similar one on our side. But the tracks are now gone, ripped up and made into a bike trail. The Burlington (Northern & Sante Fe) main line is still there though, as are the BNFE "shops", which were only 1/2 mile or so down the tracks from that first house.
I miss those trains. Sometimes at night I can hear the trains on the tracks that are over a mile away, but it's not the same. I guess when we retire, we'll need to find a place not more than a couple of blocks from someone's main line. :)
Or take a crap!
In Russia they still do this on their trains, unless you are a few kilometers out from their very big cities, then they lock the doors. If you have to go, tough!
The fact that this mother just gave birth and did what she did is incredible. It’s too bad you felt that you had to put a negative spin on things.
A railroad toilet dumping directly onto the tracks resulted in one of the most important civil court cases in US history.
Back then, as now where they still have that kind of train, passengers were not allowed to use the restroom in the station, but one managed to get in the restroom anyway.
The railroads had an employee who carried a hammer and a burning torch. His job was to hit the train wheels with his hammer (an off-key sound meant that the wheel was cracked), and to look in dark spaces where hobos might be hiding.
While performing his duties, he looked up the wrong hole, right when the passenger dumped his toilet waste. Angered, he stuck the burning torch up the hole, injuring the passenger.
This resulted in the first liability suit, based on the idea that the railroad company was responsible for the actions of their employees. And that legal decision has tormented American business ever since.
Strange the history lessons one learns here on FR?
“What a disgusting place.”
Don’t know about today but in the 50s in Japan the trains had a brass ring at the end of the car for passangers to pee or poop through.
The mother and her baby.
Hockey mom instincts. Prayers for her and her baby.
Make that BNSF "shops".
We "Hawkers" don't always type so well.
I am guessing “reach for the brass ring” doesn’t have the same meaning in Japan as it does here.
Trains or the Dave Matthews Band
not a very high tech waste retention/storage/disposal system.
What a wonderful thing that both mom and baby are alive and recovering. That’s pretty cool.
Everyone should be blessed with a mother as awesome as this one! :-)
“hang like sleeve of wizzard”
Don't you hate when that happens?
BS.
Which part?
I’ve personally used the ones on a Swiss train. VERY drafty...
And every once in a while there will be a blue-ice-falling-from-the-sky story on FR.
And other stuff.
Have you ever been behind a motor home on the highway when water drops appeared on your winshield?
There might still be some trains operating in Europe without modern waste facilities, but dumping waste from aircraft for the most part ended pre-WW2.
For no other reason that rather than just falling away it usually splattered on the fuselage and froze on contact. My father as a young man had the “privilege” of scraping freeze dried shit off DC-3’s.
There are something called relief tubes in some aircraft, but most pilots would rather piss themselves or go in a bottle than use it. Those vent overboard.
Banned in the early 90’s - Amtrak fought and won but the PR was so incredibly bad they had to stop anyways.
Without a speci-pan the birth would have been in the toilet. A speci-pan fits over the toilet seat and is used to collect specimens when needed...
And it took Hubby and crew an HOUR to stroll back up the tracks a mere mile and find her and the baby.
Guess the guys were having to pick their way carefully to keep from stepping in all the ----stuff--- dropped on the tracks by all the previous trains.
We always joked about that. It can't be actually TRUE???
No, not true and when it does happen it is a cause of significant concern maintenance wise.
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