London Jogger Knocks Woman Into Traffic Where She Nearly, NEARLY Gets Decapitated By A Bus
HuffPo- This is the moment a jogger knocks a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in west London, England.
The Metropolitan Police Service said on Tuesday they released the “dramatic” video, above, in the hope of finding the jogger, who they said “appeared to push” the pedestrian on Putney Bridge.
In the video from May 5, you can see the 33-year-old woman falling backward onto the road ? forcing the driver of the large, red bus to quickly swerve. The bus just misses hitting her head.
The driver stopped the bus stopped and some of its passengers helped treat the woman, who sustained minor injuries, the police said in a statement. The jogger continued his run, the statement adds.
“About 15 minutes later, the jogger came back the other way across the bridge,” police said. “The victim tried to speak to him but he did not acknowledge her and carried on jogging.”
Officers described the jogger as white, in his early to mid-30s, with brown eyes and short, brown hair. He was wearing a light gray T-shirt and dark blue shorts at the time of the incident.
“The victim was put in extreme danger when she was knocked into the road,” said Sgt Mat Knowles, the investigating officer from Putney Safer Neighbourhood Team, in a release. “It was only due to the superb quick reactions of the bus driver that she was not hit by the vehicle.”
How close was that?! Aw man. I guess we’re all happy the bus didn’t hit her. I guess it’s a good thing that double-decker bus didn’t punt her head down the road like a goddamn kickoff. Her head would have rolled FOREVER. Something tells me it would finally have come to rest on the curb in front of a sex shop. The owner would have found it and said “how’d this get out here?” He brings it back in and puts it on the shelf. A week later, it’s sold to a guy who looks like Newman. He names it “Mouthy” and their relationship is very one-sided.
Meanwhile, back at the scene of the accident, her neck would have been spurting blood all over people’s windshields, and drivers would try to clean it off with their wipers only to have it smear all over the windshield because blood is viscous. This would have led to at least a few cars careening over that railing and flying into that river below like lemmings jumping from a cliff.
But nobody wants to see that. Instead, we as a society prefer to watch a woman keep her head thanks to the attentive driving of the bus driver. We don’t champion the jogger for clearing his path like he’s in ‘Nam. He’s the “bad guy” even though he exercises regularly and wears normal jogging attire and not some ridiculous reflective vest. We don’t want the Newman character to enjoy months of happiness until the head eventually decomposes, at which point he tries to return it to the store only to learn they have a firm “No Returns, No Exchanges” policy.
Whoop-dee-doo. Congrats to this woman on surviving. Boo that jogger. The world keeps spinning.