Posted on 10/25/2009 3:45:35 PM PDT by naturalman1975
MELBOURNE schoolboy Aaron Dryden has been revealed as the shy hero who pulled a tiny baby from under a train at Ashburton station.
Aaron, 18, told Woman's Day how he crawled under the train after six-month-old Saurish Verma's pram toppled from the platform.
He leapt on to the tracks without a thought for his own safety and ran to where the train had ground to a halt.
Followed by Saurish's terrified mother Shweta, and fearing the worst, he crawled 5m under the train to find the battered pram.
"When we got to him, the pram was lying on its side and he was strapped in, looking perfectly fine," Aaron told Woman's Day.
"The pram was acting like a cocoon, protecting him.
"Shweta unbuckled the harness and we got him out. I took off my coat and put it around him."
Saurish amazingly escaped from the terrifying ordeal with little more than some bumps and bruises.
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Even knowing that everything turned out all right, I can’t bear to watch that footage again.
I haven’t wanted to watch it at all. Just happy the outcome was good!
Looks like a set up to me, just sayin’. Already sold the story. The stupid mother should be doing everything possible to avoid publicity. Smells like week old trout.
I agree. The footage was horrific and difficult to watch. I’m just glad the kid was unharmed.
Back away from the computer...
and go soak your head.
D*mn that’s one lucky kid!
Will somebody please cut the legs off this story.
This was no set up. This was God protecting a baby in a stroller.
Absolutely. Interestingly enough, there seems to be an “angelic” shadow in the video footage right where the baby hits the tracks.
Not sayin’ the guy crawling under the train was a set up but the mother’s actions looked very suspicious. Turn the stroller from parallel to the tracks to perpendicular seconds before the train comes and it rolls off right in front of it?
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