For context check out the video on The Guardian [uk] website of the recently released footage of a young girl who apparently is intoxicated, steps out of the tube, can’t stay on her feet and rolls under the train. It seems so unlikely but the other night I was in a subway train that was halted. I was in the car next to the conductor who stands and sometimes hangs out of a window about mid-train. He was talking to a woman telling her he was not going to move the train until she got her friend past the turnstile. I was curious why this was important. It was about a 4 minute delay. Every time the friend tried to lead her drunk friend toward the turnstile, the drunk one would pull away and stand her wobbly ground. Finally he said, just go, she’ll follow you. Because the train doors were open and the car I was in was parked directly by the turnstile, I watched as indeed that was what happened. Obviously, he was afraid she could fall and roll underneath the train as shown in the video.