Some things are still right in this world

(sympatico.msn) Wesley Autrey, 50, saw a young man fall onto the tracks at a Harlem subway stop Tuesday afternoon and jumped after him, as shocked fellow commuters looked on.

Autrey at first tried to pull the man up out of the tracks. But with a train headed their way, he realized he wouldn't have enough time.

So instead, he pinned the teenager and himself in the drainage rut between the rails and hoped the oncoming train would pass over them.

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