Man falls on rail tracks, thief robs unconscious man
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SWEDEN -- A Stockholm man who watched a late night reveller fall onto railway tracks leapt to his side minutes before a train arrived.
But not to help but to empty the unconscious man's pockets.
Security cameras picked up the images as minutes later a train arrived and ran over the comatose stranger.
Miraculously new father 'Johnny', 38, survived.
Chillingly, the perpetrator passed a guard on the way out of the station without telling him that there was a helpless man on the tracks.
'He had at least six minutes to sound the alarm. If he had told the guard then he would have had time to stop the train,' said inspector Dan Osenan of the south Stockholm police.
'It makes you want to be sick. It doesn’t matter that this was a 38 year old man. This could have been a child and someone like this doesn’t give a damn.'
Police spokesman Dan Ostman told SVT one of the man’s feet was crushed and he was also injured in the face and shoulder, but survived.
'The man didn’t knock him onto the tracks so we can only prosecute him for the theft,' said Osenan. 'Unfortunately, leaving someone to die is not a crime in Sweden.
'But I hope the court will take this very very seriously.'
The footage will be shown on TV3’s Wanted programme tonight which cops believe will lead to a quick identification and arrest.
That's terrible.
